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What Does Psychopathic Mean?

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The term psychopathic is an adjective meaning of, characterised by or pertaining to psychopathy. It could mean affected with or pertaining to an antisocial personality disorder, one that is typically characterised by criminal, aggressive, perverted, or amoral behaviour. As a noun, the word psychopathic is used as a synonym for the term psychopath.

A related term is psychopathology which is a noun that describes that branch of medicine which deals with the causes along with processes of mental disorders. It could be used to describe maladaptive, abnormal behaviour or mental activity.

A psychopathic personality disorder is used as another term for an antisocial personality disorder. The term psychopath is given to one who has an antisocial personality disorder, which is manifested in perverted, aggressive, amoral or criminal behaviour without any empathy or remorse.

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