psychopathic

[ US /ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/ ]
[ UK /sˌa‍ɪkə‍ʊpˈæθɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
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How To Use psychopathic In A Sentence

  • I agree with the viewpoint that current American thinking has become psychopathic.
  • Psychiatrists reading this will have already made the diagnosis - psychopathic personality disorder.
  • A series of unsolved murders on the island has raised fears that a psychopathic serial killer is on the loose.
  • This model specifically predicts that individuals with psychopathy will be more likely than nonpsychopathic individuals to persist in a previously rewarded response, even if the rate of punishment for this response increases.
  • He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
  • The ICD-10 diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization also lacks psychopathy as a personality disorder, its 1992 manual including Dissocial (Antisocial) Personality Disorder, which encompasses amoral, antisocial, asocial, psychopathic, and sociopathic personalities. Kim Cranston: Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide
  • Psychopathic individuals are not actually linked to sadism, so they don't actually enjoy inflicting pain.
  • Such a person would not be suffering from a psychopathic disorder within the meaning of the Act.
  • Eysenck was the earliest theorist to suggest that delinquent or psychopathic individuals have difficulty inhibiting previously rewarded behaviour.
  • The ruling class has deliberately cultivated inside its military a psychopathic element, ready to carry out mass murder against any population targeted for subjugation.
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