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n. a person who behaves in an antisocial way and shows little or no guilt for antisocial acts and little capacity for forming emotional relationships with others. Psychopaths tend to respond poorly to treatment and do not learn from punishment, but many mature as they age. See also antisocial personality disorder. —psychopathic adj. —psychopathy n.
Health Source: Oxford | Concise Colour Medical Dictionary
Author: Jonathan Law, Elizabeth Martin

Psychopathy

Any disease of the mind... psychopathy

Psychopathology

The study of abnormal mental processes. There are 2 main approaches: the descriptive, which aims to record symptoms that make up a diagnosis of mental illness; and the psychoanalytic, which is concerned with the unconscious feelings and motives of the individual.... psychopathology

Psychopathic

Psychopathic disorder is de?ned by the Mental Health Act 1983 as a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including signi?cant impairment of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct. The cardinal features are as follows: (1) Absence of normal feelings for other people such as love, affection, sympathy and condolence. (2) A tendency to antisocial impulsive acts with no forethought of the consequences. (3) A failure to learn by experience and to be deterred from crime by punishment.

(4) Absence of any other form of mental disorder that would explain the unusual behaviour. The corresponding American terminology is ‘antisocial personality disorder’. (See MENTAL ILLNESS.)... psychopathic


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