(1) They told him that a violent psychopath had escaped from the local mental institution.(2) She has a boyfriend, who is not an aggressive psychopath like the stalker, but gentle and decent.(3) Though diagnosed as a psychopath and then as suffering from hysterical amnesia - which he later said he faked - no one ever considered Hess clinically insane.(4) Morrison finds herself the hostage of a violent psychopath , trapped in a siege that cannot end without bloodshed.(5) The majority of offenders with an APD diagnosis on file were in fact psychopaths , once more highlighting the asymmetric association between these two disorders.(6) The people have a government of crooks, cronies, liars, thugs and psychopaths who offer no leadership or positive vision and so lead their people to a life of squalor and desperation.(7) Nigel Eastman believes that even if neuroscientists could prove that psychopaths had abnormal brains, they'd still be left with the inconvenient fact that nobody seems to know quite what a psychopath is in the first place.(8) Davis made enormous sums of money during his career millions - but was constantly fighting off debt as he spent wildly, almost psychopathically .(9) Stuart Kinner analyzes psychopaths , a mere one percent of the population who account for more than half of serious crimes.(10) Canadian documentary The Corporation, which depicts large companies as greedy, manipulative, deceitful psychopaths , is currently enjoying box-office success.(11) And when corporations behave psychopathically , it's the fault of no human, not even the fat cats in charge.(12) History is littered with despots and psychopaths , murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.(13) One study found a greater proportion of psychopaths in sex offenders who had assaulted and/or unlawfully confined female prison staff members than in a sample of the general sex offender population.(14) Some psychopaths are aggressive and commit violent crimes, other psychopaths are non-aggressive. Many other persistent criminals are said to have personality defects.(15) For a long time we wanted to believe that here we were dealing with abnormal monsters, psychopaths , or mentally defective, even psychotic individuals.(16) His book is populated with scoundrels, megalomaniacs, psychopaths , manipulators and sadists - people he happens to find interesting.
