Word: psychopaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retired and living in Florida, tapped three major sources: he conducted exhaustive interviews with people who had known Hitler; he used "The Hitler sourcebook" (1,100 pages of biographical data compiled by three analytically trained assistants); and he carefully studied Mein Kampf. His conclusion: Hitler was "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia," or, in simpler terms, the Fuhrer was not insane but was emotionally sick and lacked normal inhibitions against antisocial behavior. A desperately unhappy man, he was beset by fears, doubts, loneliness and guilt, and spent his whole life in an unsuccessful attempt to compensate for feelings...
With the law apparently helpless, Dr. Lever Stewart and three colleagues decided to write up the case in the Virginia Medical Monthly, to warn other physicians in the area to be on the lookout for arsenic poisoning. "She's a grade-A psychopath," says Dr. Stewart. Passing the lie detector test was no problem for her, "because to her it would mean nothing...
...have to follow whatever policy he laid down. That policy included a strict stand against birth control, opposition to any democratic procedures in the church, and a stand on abortion more rigid than that adopted by his fellow bishops. "If a 13-year-old girl gets raped by a psychopath and gets pregnant," he pronounced, "abortion is certainly not allowed. She would have to say: Til have to carry the cross of the Lord...
...psychopath, as Harrington defines him, is not just an exaggerated version of the neurotic, afraid to walk under a ladder. He is the new man, free from either anxiety or remorse, cold, bored, self-isolated, adventurous, seductive when he wants to be. Or as Harrington lists some types: "Drunkards and forgers, addicts, flower children . . . Mafia loan shark battering his victim, charming actor, murderer, nomadic guitarist, hustling politician, the saint who lies down in front of tractors, icily dominating Nobel Prize winner stealing credit from laboratory assistants . . . all, all doing their thing...
...simple paranoia. Harrington himself tells the story of visiting a friend in San Francisco and pulling down the blinds because, he says, "I found myself explaining that in the exposed living room I made too easy a target." But at the end the author also finds himself explaining that psychopaths have certain valuable qualities: their daring mocks our caution, their sense of self shames our self-effacement. Swept on by his own rhetoric, Harrington concludes with a bizarre version of the New Mysticism, in which the psychopath and the good soldier both partake in a hallucinogenic communion at what...