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  • Essay / American Horror Story TV Show - 568

    In my diagnostic article, I wrote about the character Tate Langdon, who was a main character in the first season of American Horror Story, a television show from FX. The disorders I diagnosed Tate Langdon with are antisocial personality disorder and schizophrenia. Antisocial personality disorder is a disorder in which a person, usually a man, demonstrates a lack of awareness of wrongdoing. Antisocial personalities also inhibit their impulses and feel careless toward their family, friends, and actions. Antisocial personality disorder can be both biological and psychological. Studies have shown that people with this disorder and people who have committed murder have a lack of activity in their frontal lobes, which explains why they are so impulsive. Schizophrenia is a disorder that causes a person to inhibit delusional thoughts and think about a completely different reality. Their thought patterns are disorganized, disrupted and inappropriate. Their demonstrations of actions demonstrate these points. The two symptoms of schizophrenia, positive and negative, shows Tate...