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In reply to the discussion: Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopath) [View all]pat_k
(13,394 posts)37. I'm not licensed to diagnose either.
I dropped out of the Clinical Psych Ph.D. program at Rutgers after 2 years. I was an older student interested in a career in academia. As the questions I was passionate about were distilled to narrowly defined research studies, and as I looked forward to a stretch of years making no money as a research assistant, teaching assistant, and later associate professor, etc., I decided to leave for some fairly interesting and more lucrative work as an IT consultant.
I'm going from a plain reading of the criteria and the mountains of evidence we have amassed in the years since he came down that escalator (and reports and video from before that).
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Nixon exhibited many of those same characteristics. He had the decency to resign. TSF would
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Mar 2025
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