Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mental disorder, especially antisocial personality disorder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Derangement of the mental functions.
- noun The cure of the sick by psychical influence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Mental disease. See
psychosis , 2.
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- noun A
personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of thisdisorder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
Etymologies
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Examples
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The word psychopathy dates back in an early form to the 19th century, but as a modern term it's primarily used in reference to the work of Canadian psychologist Robert Hare.
Comments for Damn Interesting Lyzbeth 2010
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It was only a matter of time before House tackled a psychopath, and of course it would have to be someone where the psychopathy was a curable symptom.
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One of the differences between anti-social personality disorder and psychopathy, which is not considered a mental illness, is that those who are psychopathic plan their acts of violence against others, whereas those who have anti-social personality disorder do not premeditate such acts.
Robert David Jaffee: Lies and Lying Liars Hurt the Mentally Ill 2009
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O'TOOLE: Yes, it seemed to have started early on and there's still -- the jury is still out as to whether or not psychopathy, which is a personality disorder, if there is a genetic link to that.
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Several areas of the brain have been shown to be implicated with antisocial personality disorder ASPD, commonly known as psychopathy or sociopathy.
Ars Technica Jonathan M. Gitlin 2011
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Later on, Valerie's sister revealed that their childhood hadn't been kind, that her psychopathy, which is obviously a symptom, may have started during puberty.
BuddyTV 2010
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First of all is the antisocial personality disorder, also known as psychopathy or sociopathy.
Daily Rotten 2009
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The instruments that would exhibit the core competencies for this position are the WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) which assesses his overall IQ, the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) which assesses any pathological mental illnesses such as psychopathy and/or sociopathy, in particular, high school-level political science/civics and geography exit exams.
Shoud a President Undergo Mental Health, IQ and Political Science/Civics and Basic Etiwuette Exams? 2007
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Thus, we are subtly introduced to the two over-riding themes of the antisocial personality disorder (still labelled by many professional authorities "psychopathy" and "sociopathy"): an overwhelming dysphoria and an even more overweening drive to assuage this angst by belonging.
Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema Samuel Vaknin
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Assuming it’s the same perp, assuming all the alleged suicides are really homicides, and with a caveat the size of your enormous ass, here’s a shot in the dark: antisocial personality disorder, more commonly known as psychopathy, but compounded by a phobia disorder, manifesting counterphobically.
Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003
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