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psychopathic, a. (n.)|ps-, saɪkəʊˈpæθɪk|
[f. psychopathy + -ic.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of mental disorder, now spec. psychopathy. b. Subject to or affected with mental disorder, now spec. psychopathy; mentally deranged. c. Engaged in the treatment of mental disorder.
1847tr. Feuchtersleben's Med. Psychol. (Syd. Soc.) 65 A public address to the psychopathic physicians of Germany. 1899[see hereditary a. 2 a]. 1901Lancet 20 Apr. 1126/2 This condition..proves its psychopathic basis. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. 157 He [Bunyan] was a typical case of the psychopathic temperament, sensitive of conscience to a diseased degree. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 19 Sept. 2/2 The court.. found that Duker is afflicted with a definite mental ailment or disorder known as psychopathic personality, which had reduced his mental and moral responsibility and control but that he is sane according to the legal standard. 1949Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XL. 12 The Psychopathic Personality (P.P.P.) is one of the major problems of the Prison Commission. 1957R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Compl. Wks. I. 111 In many psychopathic illnesses there are persons who think unclearly and are prone to flights of ideas, who are ruthlessly egocentric..but who can hardly be said to be suffering from chronic mania. 1959Mental Health Act 7 & 8 Eliz. II c. 72. i. §4 In this Act ‘psychopathic disorder’ means a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient, and requires or is susceptible to medical treatment. 1968[see moral a. 7 a]. 1976Times 4 Aug. 5/7 All we can do is protect society from them. Grossly psychopathic people cannot be befriended. 1977P. Way Super-Celeste i. 53 Such men..work to please whatever passions and psychopathic urges drive them personally.
2. Of or pertaining to the treatment of disease by ‘psychic’ means, as by hypnotism.
1890in Cent. Dict.
B. absol. as n. = psychopath.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1896F. P. Cobbe in Daily News 13 Apr. 7/7 They are ‘psychopathics’—a term which Prof. James, of Harvard University, employs to denote an inborn aptitude to immoral actions in any direction.
Hence psychoˈpathically adv.
1961in Webster. 1972Lancet 18 Nov. 1069/2 The psychopathically aggressive, the rigidly authoritarian. |