Antisocial Personality Disorder Is Not Enough: A Reply to Sreenivasan,

This commentary seeks to extend the recent article by Sreenivasan et al., which supports the contention that case law history allows for the commitment of a sexually violent predator/sexually dangerous person (SVP/SDP) based on a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder and absent a paraphilic condition. We argue that a clear sexual disorder must be present before a person can be found to be an SVP/SDP. A diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder is not enough. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 32:440–2, 2004 The psychiatric diagnosis, and the severity of the mental abnor-mality itself, must be sufficient to distinguish the dangerous sex offender whose serious mental illness, abnormality, or disorder subjects him to civil commitment from the dangerous but typ-ical recidivist convicted in an ordinary criminal case.—Kansas v