Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed, Text Revision (DSM-5) criteria for a diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder (1), patients must have a persistent pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. This pattern is shown by the presence of ≥ 5 of the following: Also, symptoms must have begun by early adulthood. Histrionic […]
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Since 1998, about 969 children have died in hot cars and more than half of them were left behind unknowingly by their caregiver, according to NoHeatStroke.org. A leading expert in cognitive neuroscience who has studied the role of memory in such tragedies has found that the stresses parents face in everyday life can make these
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Sadism is derivation of pleasure through cruelty and inflicting pain, humiliation, and other forms of suffering on individuals (American Psychological Association). Sadism can be physical and/or sexual, but it can also be inflicted verbally and via emotional manipulation and humiliation. The satisfaction of the sadist may result not from inflicting actual physical pain but rather
According to the FBI, serial murder is the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events. At official site of the FBI there is plenty useful information on this topic and authors also debunked many myths about serial killers. Serial murder is a relatively rare event, estimated to comprise
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Scholars have been proposing several theories regarding our personality. But what is a personality? Personality is described as the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique, different than others and these thoughts, feelings and behaviors are relatively permanent. Hans Eysenck suggested that genetics are primarily responsible for personality and that
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Personality disorders: To be classified as a personality disorder, one’s way of thinking, feeling and behaving deviates from the expectations of the culture, causes distress or problems functioning, and lasts over time. The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits. To
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Would you tell us what the term paraphilia means and what is a paraphilia? Dr. Park Dietz: ‘’The term paraphilia comes from Greek roots and was reintroduced in 1980 as a means of getting away from the term sexual deviation that had been used before that time, and the Greek Roots refer to the idea
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Amber Rene Hagerman (November 25, 1986 – January 15, 1996) was a nine-year-old girl abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas. Her younger brother, Ricky, had gone home without her because Amber had wanted to stay in the parking lot of an abandoned grocery store for a while. When he returned with his grandfather, they only found
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Dr. Michael H. Stone was a psychiatrist and scholar. Dr. Stone’s work lent support to the need for flexibility in the therapeutic approach to treating borderline personality disorder. Stone was also recognized for refining the concept of psychopathy, as described by Dr. Robert D. Hare and Dr. David Cooke. He is the author of many books, but his books
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After long thinking and researching I had come to the conclusion that our societies are civilized and therefore people are happier depending on how we treat the worst among us – those in prisons; how we treat minorities and marginalized groups. I was so proud of that conclusion, but then I was reading Fyodor Dostoevsky
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