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• n  any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

• They write: "The abnormal need for stimulation that impels a child toward hyperactivity may later express itself in a tendency toward psychopathy and its consequences, such as .
• Echoing the sly psychopathy and scary singsong voice of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Ledger!), Ledger carries in him the deranged threat of a punk star like .
• In the popular mind, psychopathy is an impossibly broad term that more or less means crazy.

• mental illness
• mental disease

• mental_health

News & Articles

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• Huddersfield researcher publishes a study of psychopathy and criminal behavior
  ( University of Huddersfield ) Dr Boduszek has published a critical review of psychopathy literature, with a particular focus on recent research examining the relationship between psychopathy and various forms of criminal behavior.
  June 18, 2013 - EurekAlert!