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  2. Sadistic personality disorder - Wikipedia

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    Sadistic personality disorder is an obsolete term for a proposed personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior. People who fitted this diagnosis were thought to have a desire to control others and to have accomplished this through use of physical or emotional violence.

  3. Psychopathography of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    Famed is Hannah Arendt's invention of the phrase the "banality of evil"; in 1963, she stated that for a Nazi perpetrator as Adolf Eichmann, mental normality and the ability to commit mass murder were not mutually exclusive. [9] Harald Welzer came to a similar conclusion in his book Täter. Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden. [10]

  4. History of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    "Obsession", from a Latin root meaning to sit on or sit against, originally meant to besiege or be possessed by an evil spirit, came to mean a fixed idea that could decompose the mind. [64] With the rise of madhouses and the professionalization and specialization of medicine, there was a considerable incentive for medical doctors to become ...

  5. How imposter syndrome became the new normal - AOL

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    IN FOCUS: Michael Parkinson was, according to his son, ‘constantly questioning himself’ despite an outward appearance of chat-show confidence. But, asks Adam White, if so many of us ...

  6. The Lucifer Effect - Wikipedia

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    The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is a 2007 book which includes professor Philip Zimbardo's first detailed, written account of the events surrounding the 1971 Stanford prison experiment (SPE) – a prison simulation study which had to be discontinued after only six days due to several distressing outcomes and mental breaks of the participants.

  7. Is Stockholm Syndrome even real? The bizarre story behind a ...

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    Few realize that ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ is a term that was foisted on a woman by a male psychiatrist who had never met her after a Swedish bank heist worthy of a movie. Fifty years after the ...

  8. Capgras delusion - Wikipedia

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    Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that ... Diane first became psychotic at age 23. ... one evil and ...

  9. Why ‘Kessler Syndrome’ could turn from a hypothetical to a ...

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    The scenario, in which space debris collides and creates more debris, is called Kessler Syndrome. Eventually, the proliferation could make Earth’s orbit too clogged for satellites to orbit ...