psychopath
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noun
For a long time we wanted to believe that here we were dealing with abnormal monsters, psychopaths , or mentally defective, even psychotic individuals.
a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.
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They told him that a violent 'psychopath' had escaped from the local mental institution.
Though diagnosed as a 'psychopath' and then as suffering from hysterical amnesia - which he later said he faked - no one ever considered Hess clinically insane.
She has a boyfriend, who is not an aggressive 'psychopath' like the stalker, but gentle and decent.
Morrison finds herself the hostage of a violent 'psychopath' , trapped in a siege that cannot end without bloodshed.
The people have a government of crooks, cronies, liars, thugs and 'psychopaths' who offer no leadership or positive vision and so lead their people to a life of squalor and desperation.
Stuart Kinner is interested in an evolutionary model of psychopathy, a sort of disturbing explanation that says 'psychopaths' exist because they're well-adapted to our society.
Canadian documentary The Corporation, which depicts large companies as greedy, manipulative, deceitful 'psychopaths' , is currently enjoying box-office success.
For a long time we wanted to believe that here we were dealing with abnormal monsters, 'psychopaths' , or mentally defective, even psychotic individuals.
We heard about his 'psychopathically' abusive father, his cold and indifferent mother.
Some psychopaths are aggressive and commit violent crimes, other 'psychopaths' are non-aggressive. Many other persistent criminals are said to have personality defects.
Their murder acts on them like a religious conversion (to which, indeed, it is sometimes a prelude); and while some killers remain 'psychopathically' indifferent to their crimes, they are relatively few.
Stuart Kinner analyzes 'psychopaths' , a mere one percent of the population who account for more than half of serious crimes.
Fifteen-year-old Kevin ‘is so 'psychopathically' unloving, almost from the moment he is born, that his only concerns when older are how efficiently and sadistically he can slaughter his victims,’ The Guardian explained.
And when corporations behave 'psychopathically' , it's the fault of no human, not even the fat cats in charge.
Cult leaders are usually 'psychopaths' with a desire for power and often take ideas from politics, religion and psychology to fulfill their purpose, he said.
Will it some day be possible to genetically engineer violent 'psychopaths' ?
Studying the statements of violent criminal 'psychopaths' sheds light on their striking and specific vulnerability and emotional pain.
History is littered with despots and 'psychopaths' , murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
Nigel Eastman believes that even if neuroscientists could prove that 'psychopaths' had abnormal brains, they'd still be left with the inconvenient fact that nobody seems to know quite what a psychopath is in the first place.
The majority of offenders with an APD diagnosis on file were in fact 'psychopaths' , once more highlighting the asymmetric association between these two disorders.
One study found a greater proportion of 'psychopaths' in sex offenders who had assaulted and/or unlawfully confined female prison staff members than in a sample of the general sex offender population.
Davis made enormous sums of money during his career millions - but was constantly fighting off debt as he spent wildly, almost 'psychopathically' .
His book is populated with scoundrels, megalomaniacs, 'psychopaths' , manipulators and sadists - people he happens to find interesting.
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