Any disease of the mind

Usage examples of psychopathy.

Simon had spent too much time preparing for his assignment in Leeds not to recognize the accepted markers for psychopathy in a background history.

Ultimately, however, the poor man was convicted on the massive weight of evidence that had been collected, evidence that purported to show how, in a fit of sexual psychopathy, he had stolen into the Penfield house, had abused the woman and both children, had cold-bloodedly hacked them to pieces, and then had disposed of their remains in a superheated furnace fueled by oil-soaked coal.

The upshot was that he got himself labeled an antisocial personality rather than his original psychopathy diagnosis.

To give Murry his complete title, he was under secretary in charge of psychology, psychopathy and mental technology.

Then pitied and feared, once the rumors of abuse and psychopathy reached some threshold of public awareness.

Ultimately, however, the poor man was convicted on the massive weight of evidence that had been collected, evidence that purported to show how, in a fit of sexual psychopathy, he had stolen into the Penfield house, had abused the woman and both children, had cold-bloodedly hacked them to pieces, and then had disposed of their remains in a superheated furnace fueled by oil-soaked coal. Bloodstained underwear belonging to the children and to Mrs.

So long as my circumstances were as they were, he said, and my motives remained free of perversion, he saw little to choose between auto and homoerotic activity: masturbation, while more normal in the eyes of most New Tammanians and less liable to cause public embarrassment, carried its dangers in the same single-handedness that recommended it: loveless and reclusive, it fed the fantasies of the timid and could aggravate any tendencies to impotence or withdrawal from engagement with others -- narcissism and schizophrenia, he asserted, were the masturbator's inclinations in the realm of psychopathy.