impersonal moral dilemma.

Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,

hot empathy.

ASPD is psychopathy with added emotion. Psychopathy is an emotionless void.

‘I think every society needs particular individuals to do its dirty work for it,’ he continues. ‘Someone who isn’t afraid to make tough decisions. Ask uncomfortable questions. Put themselves on the line. And a lot of the time those individuals, by the very nature of the work that they’re tasked to do, aren’t necessarily going to be the kind of peop

It was conviction that made them tick.

can we ‘catch’ fear in the same way we catch a cold?

‘an enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it’.

But it was entirely in his nature to sting you – even as he was about to go under.