Scott Joplin: Undiagnosed Antisocial Personality Disorder

Darryl Lynn Jones, BA, MAEd.Southern New Hampshire University

May 17, 2015

What is antisocial personality disorder?

“Anti-social personality disorder comprises any combination of six trait models; e.g., negative emotionality, introversion, disinhibition, compulsivity, antagonism, and schizotypy. The result is anxiety, disorientation, social isolation, fits of rage, and promiscuity; not to mention a myriad of other culminations (American Psychiatric Association, n.d.; Messent, 2013; Shedler, Beck, Fonagy, Gabbard & Gunderson, 2010; Zeng, Wang, Zhang, Chen, Huang, Liu,.…&Yang, 2013).

Scott Joplin ?-1917

“Compounding the difficulties of sparse factual data are years of accrued misinformation. One tenacious myth tells us that Joplin was born in Texarkana, Texas, on November 24, 1868. The location is easily dispensed with: Texarkana was not established until 1873. Testimony of a family friend has Scott born in Marshall, Texas, some 70 miles south from what was to become Texarkana; in 1870, according to the U.S. Census, the family lived on a farm in Linden, Texas, almost 40 miles away. That same census, of 1870, certifies that on July 18, 1870, the young Scott wasalready two years old, thereby ruling out a birth date of November 24, 1868. The 1880 census and his death certificate support that conclusion. Though we cannot cite an exact date for his birth, documents place the event between July 19, 1867 and mid-January 1868” (Berlin, 2013). 

Scott Joplin ?-1917

LIKENESS ON DISPLAY AT

THE MISSOURI STATE HOUSE

JOPLIN DURING THE TURBULENT TIMES

Informal Treatment of African-Americansduring Reconstruction

Few African-Americans among Medical Professionals

ARKANSAS PHYSICIANS1888

ARKANSAS INSANE ASYLUM DURING THE U.S. POST-

RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

Scott Joplin’s Personality Disorder

JOPLIN’S IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT

THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS FOR ANTI-SOCIAL

PERSONALITY DISORDER Anxiety, Depression,

Shame, and Guilt Withdrawal from

Social Interaction

Impulsivity which Piques Promiscuity

Perfectionism and Rigidity

Negative Emotionality

Introversion

Disinhibition

Compulsivity

Joplin’s Autopsy

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