Word: psychopaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Ronald True, 59, British playboy-killer, whose reprieve from the gallows in 1922 was a public and Parliament "scandal" that almost unseated David Lloyd George's coalition government; of a coronary thrombosis; in Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet...
Dark City (Paramount) is a snail-paced thriller about three tin horn gamblers pursued by an avenging psychopath. It also introduces to the screen a sullen, Bogart-style newcomer from television, Charlton Heston...
What was the basis for Dr. Binger's judgments? Dr. Binger settled down to explain. Chambers had stolen books from the library when he was a student at Columbia; stealing is one of the characteristic behaviors of a psychopath. In the beginning of the case Chambers had "withheld the significant truth" about his relationship with Alger Hiss-a behavior known to psychiatrists as "withholding truth." Other characteristics revealed to Dr. Binger by Chambers' career: "pathological lying," "insensitivity for the feelings of others," "bizarre behavior," "vagabondism...
...Harvard psychologist charged in his earlier testimony that Hiss' accuser had an incurable mental disorder. He said there was a saying "that once a psychopath, always a psychopath." His diagnosis was in agreement with that of Dr. Carl O. Binger '10, New York psychiatrist...
...great creative artist because he is a psychopath, concludes Dr. Brain, but if he has the other necessary qualities of mind, what the psychiatrist would call pathological may be an essential element in his genius...