Sentences with phrase «from psychopathic»

Could it be possible that the field has been engaging in a self - fulfilling prophesy, withholding treatments from psychopathic patients on the basis of a largely unsupported belief?

If there is a weak link in the chain, it is the snappy editing that brings us to and from these psychopathic introductions Marty has in his mind — it may take a while for people to catch on that this is what's really going on.

Not exact matches

His bearing was aloof and disconnected from his audience, and yet he maintained that intense stare that bordered on the psychopathic.

Gamblers suffer from an uncontrollable mental sickness whereby they focus almost entirely on how much money they could win with almost no regard for losses, this is borderline psychopathic behavior.

One thing I've learned (painfully, from personal experience) is how to pick up when a narcissistic or psychopathic person is playing the victim card.

15 people dead, Only this Narcissistic - Psychopathic - Megalomaniac would call that a blessing from God....

As regards the psychopathic origin of so many religious phenomena, that would not be in the least surprising or disconcerting, even were such phenomena certified from on high to be the most precious of human experiences.

When discussing the subject of guilt, it is well to bear in mind that an appreciable percentage of alcoholics comes from the clinical group known as «psychopathic personalities,» who are unable to experience either guilt or responsibility.

Thanks to the psychopathic wisdom of whatever electrician put our house together, you can't turn the lights on from the top of the stairs — you have to descend in darkness to the bottom before flipping the switch.

Kids who end up as juvenile delinquents often come from homes that are neglectful emotionally, The Atlantic observes in its discussion on group homes for kids and teens with severe psychopathic behaviors.

He divides perpetrators into three psychological categories: psychopathic (lacking empathy and concern for others), psychotic (experiencing paranoid delusions, hearing voices and having poor social skills) and traumatized (coming from families marked by drug addiction, sexual abuse and other severe problems).

Brain scans show that this combination occurs in psychopathic criminals, say researchers from Nijmegen in an article in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Offenders with psychopathic personalities graduated from the program more violent than ever.

To find out if individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits were better at learning how to lie than others, the researchers recruited 52 students from The University of Hong Kong — 23 who showed low levels of psychopathic traits and 29 who showed high levels of psychopathic traits based on a questionnaire that can be used to assess psychopathy in a non-clinical setting.

In other words, the popular conception of the term psychopathic, from crime fiction or slasher films, for example, doesn't always apply in clinical settings.

The family welcomes Gabriel home, but from the first moments of his arrival, he projects a violent, hair - trigger temper; relentless, psychopathic bursts of unchecked anger; and a sadistic obsession with inflicting pain and cruelty on everything and everyone around him — from squelching live mice beneath his heels to strangling the neck of a chicken that he seizes during a cockfight.

This year's biggest downer — which is not to take away from the qualities of the film — «Amour» represents a change for director Michael Haneke, whose «Funny Games» is a remarkable thriller about the takeover of a household by two psychopathic youths and whose «The White Ribbon» looks at mysterious goings - on in a feudal village in Germany prior to World War I.

But the third and greatest revelation is Don Cheadle's performance as Mouse Alexander, Easy's psychopathic childhood friend who comes to California from Texas to help him in his investigation.

A small town finds itself under seige from the military when its water supply is contaminated by a biological weapon that turns its inhabitants into psychopathic killers.

Another tale of rage and trauma, adapted from a novel and accompanied by a Jonny Greenwood soundtrack, Ramsay explores the complicated relationship between Eva (Tilda Swinton) and her psychopathic son Kevin (Ezra Miller).

If you've seen even a handful of Tommy - gun movies, however, everything that happens here will feel preordained, right down to the sniveling local sheriff who's helpless in the face of both our criminal anti-heroes and the psychopathic lawman in from Chicago.

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

Some of Anderson's excesses intersect with Dolan's territory (in addition to the frogs falling from the sky and the incest in Magnolia, I can think of Mark Wahlberg's faux dick in Boogie Nights, 1997, or Paul Dano's double whammy turn as a psychopathic nerd in There Will Be Blood, 2007, and, at a deeper level, an aching sense of frustrated desire in Punch - Drunk Love, 2002).

It was a career - high for the Coens, with brilliant performances from Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem as a psychopathic hitman with a pageboy bob.

Stewed from bits of Agatha Christie, David Mamet, and Sam Peckinpah, The Hateful Eight traps a cast of blowhards (including Samuel L. Jackson as a Civil War veteran, Kurt Russell as a bounty hunter known as «The Hangman,» and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a psychopathic gang member) in a blizzard - enveloped supply station.

The real show - stopper, however, is Don Cheadle as Mouse, Rawlins's all - but - psychopathic, gun - crazy pal from the old days (Rawlins has a bit of a past in Texas).

Next thing you know, the psychopathic murderer awakens from the experimental surgery raring to track down The Dutchman as well as the creeps who killed Pope.

In «Flareup,» Raquel stars as a go - go dancer stalked from Las Vegas to Los Angeles by the psychopathic ex-husband of her friend.

While book Edward just emotes and mutters and wrestles kyootly with his inner - psychopathic killer, cinematic Edward's version of romance was totally channeled from Hayden Christensen's monotonic woo from Naboo.

Much of the West's view of Cixi comes from the writings of Edmund Backhouse (1873 - 1944) who claimed to have had close contact with the Empress over many years and portrayed her as a ruthless, extravagant, psychopathic nymphomaniac.

Perhaps the finest mystery debut of 2004 was Blake Crouch's Desert Places, in which thriller writer Andrew Thomas struggled to extricate himself from the intricate frame job engineered by his exceptionally un-fraternal fraternal twin brother, Orson, and Orson's psychopathic sidekick, Luther Kite.

Dr. Perry Baird's account swings from the voice of a brilliant Harvard - educated physician examining his own illness («the brutalities one encounters in state and city psychopathic hospitals must be the by - product of the fear and superstition with which mentally ill patients are regarded») to the voice of a seriously delusional man in the throes of his manic - depression.

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Gamblers suffer from an uncontrollable mental sickness whereby they focus almost entirely on how much money they could win with almost no regard for losses, this is borderline psychopathic behavior.

Together, along with a psychopathic sadist called Albedo, these characters were drawn into a wide - ranging intergalactic conspiracy that took inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Neon Genesis Evangelion and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

I prefer the original Lara Croft over her new iteration, the Lara Croft from my childhood was a confident heartless psychopathic #####, which was a trait, that I think, made part of her sex appeal, something which I feeling this new Lara Croft lacks

The governing elite of psychopathic bankers, corrupt politicians, and powerful mega-corporations create crises, then save us from the crises they created, while accumulating more control, wealth and power.

He had been deemed to suffer from an untreatable psychopathic disorder.

Basic components of the psychopathic personality will be explored using criteria from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

Basic components of the psychopathic personality was explored using criteria from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

While most studies of psychopathic personality assess incarcerated respondents, the resulting data may not be generalizable to non-criminals; participants in these studies were recruited from the general population.

In the context of a familial environment this could very well begin with a perpetrator parent, who enjoys alienating a child from the victimized parent and is therefore engaging in the psychopathic style, or they could very well be a full - blown psychopath.

Psych Central featured research from UBC's Okanagan campus that found people with higher psychopathic tendencies are more likely to assault their romantic partners.

We also hypothesized that CU traits would show a pattern of «inverted» social reward, in which adolescents with high levels of these traits report more enjoyment of negative social potency and less enjoyment of prosocial interactions, in line with our previous findings from adults with high levels of psychopathic traits [12,13].

Understanding adolescent psychopathic traits from early risk and protective factors: Relations among inhibitory control, maternal sensitivity, and attachment representation.

With the intention of gaining insight in the clinical usefulness of self - reported psychopathic - like traits, we examined relations known from literature with emotional and behavioural features.

As such, strong links between psychopathic traits and bullying may help to explain why so many typical anti-bullying interventions are ineffective [30, 31], and suggest whether bullies may benefit from interventions tailored to youth psychopathy.

However, we note that over 130 studies have used self - report measures of CU or psychopathic traits such as the ICU (Frick et al. 2014) and there is still no consensus whether parents, teachers or the young people themselves are better informants about the presence or absence of CU traits and the guidance in the DSM - 5 is that information from all three sources can be used in clinical settings (American Psychiatric Association 2013).

Assessment of emotion and language processing in psychopathic offenders: Results from a dichotic listening task

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