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Definition: Psychopathy |
PsychopathyNoun1. Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Psychopathy \Psy*chop"a*thy\, noun. [Psycho- Greek]. (Websters 1913) |
"Psychopathy" is a common misspelling or typo for: psychopath, psychopathic. |
Synonyms: PsychopathySynonyms: mental disease (n), mental illness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: mental health (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Interpersonally, psychopaths are manipulative, grandiose,egocentric and forceful. Affectively, they are shallow and non-empathetic; they do not experience empathy, guilt or remorse. Behaviorally, they are impulsive, irresponsible and sensation seeking.
In contemporary research and clinical practice, psychopathy is most commonly assessed with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), which is a clinical rating scale with 20 items. Each of the items in the PCL-R is scored on a three-point scale according to specific criteria through file information and a semi-structured interview. Score 0 if the trait is absent, 1 if it is possibly or partially present and 2 if it is present. The item scores are summed to yield a total score ranging from 0 to 40 which is then considered to reflect the degree to which they resemble the prototypical psychopath. A score > 30 supports a disgnosis of psychopathy.
The items are as follows:
Interpersonal dimension
Affective dimension
Behavioral dimension
A note of caution - the test must be administered by a trained mental health practitioner under controlled conditions for it to have any validity.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Psychopathy."
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Civil Liberties | Belarus | On January 12, a criminal case for slander was initiated against Nasha Svaboda for publishing the article of Dr. Dmitry Shchygilski, a psychologist, who diagnosed Aleksandr Lukashenka as suffering from "mosaic psychopathy." The charges were not pursued after the Nasha Svaboda editor suggested that to prove slander, the prosecutors would have to prove Lukashenka was not ill, and offered to help find an independent expert for the evaluation of his health. (references) |
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| "Psychopathy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Psychopathy" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
psychopathy | 30 |
checklist hare psychopathy | 7 |
checklist psychopathy | 6 |
hare psychopathy | 3 |
psychopathy treatment | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "psychopathy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psychopati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychopathie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | luonnevikaisuus (disorder of character), luonnevika (disorder of character). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychopathie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Psychopathie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχοπάθεια (antisocial disorders, antisocial personality, antisocial personality disorders, personality with antisocial disturbance, personality with sociopathic disturbance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psicopatia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 병 (Psychosis, psychotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychopathypsay psihopatie. (various references) психопатия. (various references) psicopatía (psychpathy). (various references) psikopatlık, psikopati. (various references) психопатія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "psychopathy" (pronounced sīkÄ"puthē) |
| 4 | -p u th ē | antipathy, apathy, empathy, encephalopathy, sympathy. |
| 3 | -u th ē | Timothy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-o-p-p-s-t-y-y" | |
-1 letter: psychopath. | |
-5 letters: choppy, coapts, patchy, pathos, poachy, potash, psycho, yachts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-o-p-p-s-t-y-y" | |
+2 letters: psychotherapy. | |
+4 letters: psychopathology. | |
+5 letters: psychopathically. | |
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