Antissocial aspects in ageing

Abstract

According to Winnicott, antisocial tendency etiology is an experience of deprivation that occurs during the fusion between instinctual and motor elements. These elements defusion impairs creative development of object relations and leads to an expression of aggression. In this scenario, the antisocial tendency is expressed by an environmental disorder, through lies, stealing, and destructivity. This article presents a clinical case of antisocial behaviors in an older person, describing the therapeutic setting for the treatment of such condition. Considering that ageing often presents with physical decadence and instinctual decline, it also discusses the association between this life period and a deprivation expressed through multiple disorders that are usually understood as signs of mere senescence but could possibly signify the expression of an antisocial tendency.