SADISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER PORTRAYED BY PATRICK BATEMAN IN AMERICAN PSYCHO FILM
People with sadistic personalities or mental disorders can be seen from their attitude and behavior. The sadistic nature depicted in a person's life is his bad behavior. The descriptive method of analysis was carried out by describing the sadistic personality disorder played by Patrick Bateman in the American psycho film, namely the characters and the ...
Maria F Rini +2 more
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In Response: New Controversial Diagnoses: Self-Defeating and Sadistic Personality Disorders
U ntil severa l years ago the en tire lite rature o n Masochistic Person al ity was th eoretical or an ecdotal. Dr. Fuller's recent paper, "Masochi st ic Pe rso nality Disorder: A Diagnosis Under Consideration," is a t imely contribution in that it is one of a growing number of empirical studies on this topic (1).
F Kass
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Personality traits and physical activity in patients with gambling disorder attending a rehabilitation center. An observational study [PDF]
ObjectiveProblem gambling is associated with various negative health behaviors, such as physical inactivity. However, physical activity may also be used as a coping mechanism to manage stress and anxiety.
Inmaculada Fierro +5 more
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ABSTRACT This research paper is aimed at analyzing one of Euripides’ well-renowned classical literary works entitled Medea by focussing on Medea as the main character of the story, Medea’s psychological state, psychological reason, and sadistic personality disorder reaction.
Hadiyanto Hadiyanto
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Socially Aversive Personality and the symptoms of Body Dysmorphic Disorder in the Korean Young Adult population [PDF]
Introduction Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is defined in DSM5 as a preoccupation with one or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance causing significant distress or impairment in social and occupational functioning.
S. Han, H.-S. Chee
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Suicide among older adults is a major public health problem in the USA. In our recent study, we examined relationships between the 10 standard DSM-5 personality disorders (PDs) and suicidal ideation, and found that the PD dimensions explained a majority (55%) of the variance in suicidal ideation.
Daniel L, Segal +4 more
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This paper proposes the re-establishment of Sadistic Personality Disorder (SPD) as a formal diagnosis, grounded in neurobiological and forensic evidence. While traditionally removed from diagnostic frameworks due to stigma and overlap with other personality disorders, current findings in neural circuitry, particularly regarding reward systems and ...
Caroline Cumulus
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Proportion of Psychiatry Outpatients with Borderline Personality and Associated Clinical Syndromes using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Introduction: Personality disorders are a group of behavioural patterns associated with significant personal and sociooccupational disturbances.
Shaunak Ajit Ajinkya +2 more
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Malignant narcissism: a case report and literature review
Malignant narcissism is the most severe form of narcissistic personality disorder, just above antisocial personality. In addition to the particularities of narcissistic disorder, it is characterized by severe ego-syntonic sadistic behavior, important ...
María E. Deveze-Villarreal +1 more
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Personality profiles and clinical syndromes of patients withtonic-clonic seizures [PDF]
Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the chronic neurological disorders with an incidence rate of 3% in the normal population. Epilepsy may render behavioral changes so that affected people are prone to prolonged interpersonal difficulties.
Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani +4 more
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