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American Journal of Psychiatry, 1991 The purpose of this study was to determine how often forensic psychiatrists evaluated individuals with sadistic personality disorder; their views about the usefulness of the diagnosis; the frequency of certain childhood factors; and the sensitivity and specificity of the individual diagnostic criteria.A questionnaire to be answered anonymously was sent
R L, Spitzer +3 more
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Sadistic Personality Disorder: A Review of Data and Recommendations for DSM-IV
Journal of Personality Disorders, 1991 Sadism is a term originally used by Krafft-Ebing (1898) to describe the desire to inflict pain upon the sexual object. He also coined the term masochism for the desire to have pain inflicted by the sexual object. Freud (1915; 1924; 1957) further elaborated the concept as an element of male aggressiveness, or a desire to subjugate contained in the ...
Susan J. Fiester, Martha Gay
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Sadistic and self-defeating personality disorder criteria in a rural clinic sample
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1992 A sample of 176 outpatients at a mental health clinic in rural southern Georgia were rated for the presence or absence of the DMS-III-R sadistic and self-defeating personality disorder criteria. On the basis of these ratings, 48 patients met the criteria for sadistic (n = 14) and self-defeating (n = 41).
A K, Fuller +3 more
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 1992 Psychiatrists have responded to the challenge of abandoning the adjective ‘psychopathic’ in current disease classification systems. This paper nevertheless advocates caution in the application of the consequent diagnostic criteria. Comorbidity — the presence of two or more diseases at the same time — may be as indicative of confusion as of extensive ...
Peter Tyrer
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2000 Abstract Sexual homicide by juveniles is a rare phenomenon, and information regarding the psychological and behavioral characteristics of this group is limited. No studies exist which have investigated anger experience and styles of anger expression, and the relationship between anger, sadistic personality disorder, and psychopathy, in ...
W C, Myers, L, Monaco
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Sadistic Personality Disorder in Perpetrators of Human Rights Abuses: A South African Case Study
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2001 Although state-sponsored human rights abuses have long been commonplace, the psychological profiles of perpetrators are not well delineated. This article examines the utility of the diagnosis of sadistic personality disorder (SPD) in explaining the commission of atrocities. The history of, and controversies surrounding, SPD are briefly reviewed.
D, Kaminer, D J, Stein
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Journal of Personality Disorders, 2006 Decisions about whether to include depressive, passive-aggressive, sadistic, and self-defeating disorders in Axis II have been made difficult by a relative dearth of data. We report the results of a study identifying potential defining features of these diagnoses and assessing their distinctiveness from other Axis II personality disorders (PDs).
Rebekah, Bradley +2 more
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Sadistic personality disorder and comorbid mental illness in adolescent psychiatric inpatients.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2006 Sadistic personality disorder (SPD) is a controversial diagnosis proposed in the DSM-III-R, but not included in the DSM-IV. Few studies have focused on this disorder in adolescents. This article describes the results of a study that sought to determine the presence of sadistic personality characteristics in psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents and ...
Wade C, Myers +2 more
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Passive-Aggressive, Depressive, and Sadistic Personality Disorders
, 2007 Morey, Leslie C +2 more
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