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childhood triad

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childhood triad,
three types of behavior-fire setting, bedwetting, and cruelty to animals-that may predict emerging sociopathy when they occur consistently or in combination.


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The only respect in which antisocial personality disorder differs from your ruthless business prototype is that it tends to be more extreme - and it is (according to JM MacDonald in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 1963, though I got that from Wikipedia, before you start thinking I did any original research) associated with a childhood triad of bedwetting, cruelty to animals and pyromania.
 
 
 
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