Psychopath in a sentence as a noun

"I know if I put "strongly agree," it'll be more likely to call me a psychopath.

It's difficult to read this and not think that a psychopath was let off the hook because he was young.

When it's malicious the psychopath gets the boot fast.

Though I never met him, I am convinced Steve Jobs is pretty high on the psychopathy spectrum.

Instead I read that psychopaths are clever at thinking up nefarious schemes to get what they want.

Yeah, pot's not *******, but believe it or not, doing a few lines of blow doesn't turn a normal human being into a psychopath.

I don't know if engaging the legal system would help and certainly wouldn't if he was a psychopath.

Being able to lie and not get caught might be a core value in the psychopath model of corporate leadership.

The terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" are already bywords for "doesn't share my politics or worldview".

"I have been friends with a couple people with clear sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies, and this is absolutely true.

Most people have fantasized about violence from time to time, and half the internet seems to advocate being a psychopath as the best way to get laid.

When it's a harmless attempt to fit in, it just puts the psychopath in the awkwardly manipulative category.

The fact that psychopaths and Obama share certain characteristics does not prove that Obama is a psychopath.

As if the definition of a psychopath is someone who exploits others for their personal power, satisfaction or gain.

By definition, a pure psychopath feels absolutely no remorse, no guilt, and has an unshakable egocentric view that does not change.

" At this point, the author has completely distanced his psychopathy from the purely negative caricature he painted in the first half of his letter.

The psychopath I met also has a strong motivation to make an impact in the world, to be known almost as a hero, no doubt to satisfy desires of ego and power.

It's easy to either over-demonize or underestimate the nature of actual psychopathy if you've never encountered it.

If a non-psychopath and a psychopath both limit their imaginations to plausible options, the psychopath isn't any more wise for seeing options the non-psychopath doesn't.

"Aside from the false dichotomies, surely any psychopath with even a shred of intelligence could answer strategically and defeat the test's intended purpose.

It's the reality of a situation that stops people from being as "wise" as a psychopath, and, I would argue, there's no loss, because in a practical situation there's no point in seeing solutions that you won't execute in real life.

Discrediting the words of any person - psychopath or otherwise - on grounds of them being capable of effective manipulation serves little purpose and just perpetuates a stereotype.

"The rest of the article explains the author's psychopathy the way the author wants you to view it: As "a highly trained perception, ability to adapt, and a lack of judgment borne of pragmatic and flexible moral reasoning.

Certainly there is a lot of room for improvement and terms like disorder, psychopath, multiple personality, schizophrenic are abused and misused but there are behavioural patterns and characteristics by which people can be clustered.

His points about the general public's misunderstanding of true psychopathy are equally true, although he crucially omits any and all explanations of how psychopathy can actually be dangerous and destructive to others.

If they look like contemporary business and governmental organizations, the captain will be a narcissist/psychopath and his immediate subordinates fawning codependents.

Psychopath definitions

noun

someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')

See also: sociopath