Sentence examples for pathological behaviour from inspiring English sources

The debate in the literature is still quite open and ranges from the model of gambling as a pathological behaviour (where obsessive-compulsive components play a core function) to the model of behavioural addictions.

Some of the convicted abusers have been products of systems which schooled them into infantilised patterns of pathological behaviour, perpetuating the abuse they themselves experienced.

The BBC programme and some lurid court cases have painted a picture of tyrannical, abusive, even pathological, behaviour that seems more more appropriate to a prison or the Mafia than to a twenty-first century workplace.

Here he outlined in greater detail than before his reasons for emphasizing the sexual component in the development of both normal and pathological behaviour.

This is particularly worrying in the light of work which shows that pathological behaviour in childhood is a good predictor of a lifetime of aberrant behaviour.Some caution is needed.

"The talking cure" or "chimney sweeping," as Breuer and Anna O., respectively, called it, seemed to act cathartically to produce an abreaction, or discharge, of the pent-up emotional blockage at the root of the pathological behaviour.

This categorisation rests largely on the fact that substances activate basic "reward pathways" in the brain associated with craving and obsession, and produce pathological behaviours.

In different ways, they explore the history and possibilities of unbounded inquiry, and show that while curiosity can be suborned by pathological behaviours, a refusal to inquire, and to think, is no less dangerous.

The framework is designed to avoid obvious pathological behaviours.

In fact, pathological behaviours such as the accumulation of discontinuities may appear (Zeno phenomenon).

We give some conditions which can be used as tools for building finite valued feedback laws not causing such pathological behaviours.