determination, curiosity and insensitivity

interpersonal difficulties

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

Their brains, quite literally, are less “switched on” than the rest of ours.’

pivot solely around self-discipline? Everything else being equal, such a possibility might actually hold some water. The ability to delay gratification, to put on hold the desire to cut and run (and also, needless to say, to run and cut), might well tip the balance away from criminal activity towards a more structured, less impulsive, less

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

the will becom[ing] the involuntary vehicle of vicious actions, through the instrumentality of the passions.’

sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic.

refrigerated heart of a ruthless, glacial predator.