Word: psychopathic
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...those four were confined to criminal and psychiatric populations. The test also needs better adaptation to the psychology of adolescence. For almost 40 years, some psychologists have noted that the MMPI profile of the normal youngster temporarily caught in adolescent turmoil is similar to that of the adult psychopath...
Watch out, America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify...
...indecipherable while about--it seems--patrimony, while "Endlessly Jealous" is yet another boring exposition of his marital squabbling. Meanwhile, 'Doin' the Things That We Want To" is a simplistic (albeit catchy) tribute to Sam Shephard and Martin Scorcese (but does Reed truly admire Travis Bickle, the tormented psychopath of Taxi Driver, for doing the things he wants...
...Investigation believes that serial murderers are behind some 35 death sprees currently under investigation. Alfred Regnery, administrator of the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, estimates that of the 21,000 murders committed in the U.S. last year, several thousand can be attributed to this kind of psychopath. "The serial murderer doesn't simply go back to pumping gas," he says. "A senseless murder is not just committed once." The Justice Department has plans to create a national center for analysis of such violent crime. The goal: to help local police departments identify the types of known...
...list in 1981. The s author underscores what all this means to lowly screenwriters: "Stars will not play weak and they will not play blemished, and you better know that now." Exceptions to this rule? Goldman raises some only to demolish them: "Of course De Niro will play a psychopath in Taxi Driver. Some psychopath - he risks his life trying to save the virtue of your everyday ordinary-looking child prostitute, Jodie Foster...