Personality disorders and violence. A reflection article for the Colombian post-conflict.

Abstract

This paper seeks to review all the scientific literature available on the relationship between some personality disorders and violence, whose analysis is part of the epistemology necessary for the development of appropriate policies for the Colombian post-conflict, with special attention to the search for guarantees of non-repetition, an ideal set forth by the Colombian State in Law 1448 of 2011 on Victim Reparation. The author consulted 485 articles from scientific databases: Lilacs, Sdici, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Sociel Sciences Citation Index, extracting only a few dozen relevant to deal with the relationship between personality disorders (psychopathy, dissocial disorder, antisocial disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, borderline personality disorder) and violence (especially armed violence) from a scientific vantage point, thus approaching the psychological causes of the Colombian armed conflict and other forms of violence, outlining the need for policies to address this phenomenon and to persist and strengthen this line of research.