This pathological inner life was a devastating "contradiction" at the heart of modern society.
Significantly there was limited information on personality traits, psycho-pathological factors, life events and lifestyle behaviours.
The U.S. should stop bullying the world into this pathological way of life.
To make these arguments we have to distinguish the truly pathological gambler, whose life is dominated (and typically wrecked) by gambling, from merely habitual gamblers.
Exclusion criteria were pathological fractures and life expectancy shorter than 3 months.
For example, prenatal stress affects neurogenesis in pathological ways throughout life and precipitates age-related memory impairments.
I concur in Mr. Krugman's characterization of the ideological cynicism and virulent political cronyism associated with today's Republican Party as a new "pathological meanspiritedness" in American life.
The interviewer "scores" the subject on each of the twenty items — parasitic life style, pathological lying, conning, proneness to boredom, shallow emotions, lack of empathy, poor impulse control, promiscuity, irresponsibility, record of juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility, among other tendencies — with zero, one, or two, depending on how pronounced that trait is.
It does not concern the "private" unconscious of individuals, but the "unconscious" of the institution itself: it is not something that happens because the institution has to accommodate itself to the pathological realities of libidinal life in order to survive, but something that the institution itself needs in order to reproduce itself.
Fibrin is a protein polymer that forms a 3D filamentous network, a major structural component of protective physiological blood clots as well as life threatening pathological thrombi.
