antisocial personality
Americannoun
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Antisocial personality disorder is often associated with impulsive and aggressive behavior; borderline personality disorder often shows up as instability in relationships, spiraling emotions and impulsivity; histrionic personality disorder results in dramatic emotional outbursts; and narcissistic personality disorder includes a lack of empathy for other people’s priorities and feelings coupled with grandiosity.
From MarketWatch
The court also heard a number of mitigating factors, including Khalife's age and a psychological report from 2023 diagnosing him with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
From BBC
A simpler way of putting it is that Pelicot has an antisocial personality disorder - a term preferred by psychiatrists these days to words such as psychopath or sociopath.
From BBC
At the same time, all of the experts who spoke to Salon agreed that one should not turn these antisocial personality disorders into something supernatural.
From Salon
Indeed, neither are literal clinical terms: People with the traits labeled "psychopath" and "narcissist" often have a clinical condition officially known as antisocial personality disorder.
From Salon
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