Sentence examples for abnormal personality from inspiring English sources

He also wrote "The Abnormal Personality," the standard textbook on abnormal psychology for generations.

The doctors said he had an antisocial personality disorder with impulsive acts of deliberate self-harm in the context of abnormal personality traits.

Murdering five children and burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor was not the act of someone with an "abnormal personality disorder", he said, but an act of "recreational killing" which he said he did for the "existential experience".

He is also a contributor to the Boston Review and has collected his film reviews from that publication in "Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life". His book "The Abnormal Personality Through Literature" has had 22 printings.

These results highlighted the overall stability of the TCI in patients with opiate dependence and provided evidence for the usefulness of this questionnaire, which was originally designed to explore genetic and environmental factors underlying normal and abnormal personality dimensions.

Diagnostically, the sample comprised unipolar depression (52%), bipolar disorder (18%), schizophrenia (16%), abnormal personality with depression (8%), organic disorder (2%), and obsessional state with depression and paranoid disorder (1% each).

He extended his early concept of schizophrenia to a theory of personality, arguing that both normal and abnormal personalities represent enduring patterns of interpersonal relationships, thus giving the environment, in particular the human social environment, the major role in personality development.

Evidence has shown both normal and abnormal personalities were governed by traits [ 2].

Early studies on FTT based on clinically derived samples reported that growth faltering was associated with behavioural disturbances, poorer social skills, lower self-esteem, abnormal personalities, negative relationships, delayed social maturity, lower emotional stability, learning difficulties and school problems.

Abnormal protein, personality and behavioural change as well as gastro-intestinal symptoms were also observed in a significant percentage of patients in this group.

Among the described 20 patients, one patient suffered from "neurasthenia," one from "panic attacks," three from "abnormal premorbid personality," and two from substance abuse (morphine, amphetamine, and LSD); all others had no history of previous psychiatric disturbances [ 42].