psychopathic personality

collocation in English

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psychopathic
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪ.kəˈpæθ.ɪk/us
/ˌsaɪ.kəˈpæθ.ɪk/
psychologyspecialized
relating to or suffering from the condition of psychopathy (= a condition in which someone has no feeling for others and does not feel bad about anything they ...
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personality
noun
uk
/ˌpɜː.sənˈæl.ə.ti/us
/ˌpɝː.sənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the type of person you are, shown by the way you behave, feel, ...
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The sense that the legislators intended for "psychopathicpersonality" was the then-accepted medical definition.
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Little research has examined genetic and environmental contributions topsychopathicpersonalitytraits.
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The theoretical and clinical confusion that attended early delineations of the borderline is strikingly similar to that surrounding the introduction of thepsychopathicpersonality.
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Assuming that this fact is evidence of a mere application intention and not of the sense they intended for the term "psychopathicpersonality", moderate intentionalists must argue as follows.
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Psychopathicpersonalityas pathological stimulation seeking.
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Psychopathicpersonalityand racial/ethnic differences reconsidered.
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Again, there has been some question on the validity of the definition of thepsychopathicpersonality—a point raised this afternoon.
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However, there is no such thing as a definition of apsychopathicpersonalityin mental health legislation.
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There are fundamental differences betweenpsychopathicpersonalitydisorders and mental illnesses.
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He was in the technical sense apsychopathicpersonality.
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The action to be taken aboutpsychopathicpersonalityis another matter which causes me a little doubt.
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Some special units have been set up to deal with people who have apsychopathicpersonality, as it has been labelled—frankly, that is a bit of a dustbin label.
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I feel that there is a popular belief that the term "psychopathicpersonality" refers merely to an aggressive type of personality and not to the duller type.
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If the psychiatrist is uncertain whether an individual has apsychopathicpersonality, how will a prison medical officer and a general practitioner always be certain of making accurate diagnosis?
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This caused her apsychopathicpersonalityand aversion to all the maternal.
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In practice, mental health professionals rarely treatpsychopathicpersonalitydisorders as they are considered untreatable and no interventions have proved to be effective.
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He was also diagnosed with a personality disorder and apsychopathicpersonality.
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He finds the diagnosis of psychosis withpsychopathicpersonalityunnecessarily confusing.
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A person may score at different levels on the different factors, but the overall score indicates the global extent ofpsychopathicpersonality.
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