Word: psychopathic
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...mannerisms, handwriting and emotions than the most brilliant actress could have portrayed. Yet there was not the faintest suggestion of a mental illness resembling schizophrenia (the so-called "split personality"). Here were two rational personalities inhabiting the same body-though irresponsible Eve Black had some earmarks of a mild psychopath...
...adequate in all of them, and in a few (as the widower in Rachel and the Stranger, as the psychopath in The Dark Past) he was better than that. But whenever he took his fight for better parts to the front office, he got the same cold shoulder and the same cold talk: "Face it, kid. You got no sex appeal. What can you do with that face? It looks like a baby's behind." Bill took such talk and came back for more. For the first time in his life he was really fighting-not for Pasadena...
Judas, like all enemies of the party, is a psychopath, in contrast to the faithful apostles-good Equity men all, who still stick to the stuff they wrote in the old Group Theater and WPA days. Judas crops up again (in The Upraised Pinion) as a dim fellow with a remarkable physical resemblance to Whittaker Chambers, who sells out the party for $24 a day to an FBI smoothie with gold cuff links...
...Serious character defects mark what used to be called the "constitutional psychopathic inferior," more recently known simply as the psychopath (and some experts want to change it again to "sociopath") Commonest feature: utter selfishness, in which the victim knows the difference between right and wrong but does not care...
...individuality and consequent damage to the ego in the 20th century's mass political movements, social and industrial giants, wars and economic upheavals. "From loss of identity has come insecurity, and this has bred the soul-destroying plague we know as mass psychopathy. Mass man is the psychopath par excellence...