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Rough House 16 Mentions ALTER by SK Dale In a secret military lab, a neuroscientist uses cutting-edge technology to rewire the mind of a psychopathic killer, forcing her own memories onto him in the hopes to trigger empathy.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2025
So the things that people who are psychopathic have too little of, people who are very altruistic have more of.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
The catch is that he’s being stalked by McCone (Lee Pace), a hunter with an impeccable catch-and-kill record, and his psychopathic goons.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
With Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as the psychopathic killer, Welcome to Derry is the perfect spooky prequel to the Stephen King adaptation.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2025
So the things that people who are psychopathic have too little of, people who are very altruistic have more of.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
The catch is that he’s being stalked by McCone (Lee Pace), a hunter with an impeccable catch-and-kill record, and his psychopathic goons.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
With Bill Skarsgård reprising his role as the psychopathic killer, Welcome to Derry is the perfect spooky prequel to the Stephen King adaptation.
—Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
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If readers are at all uncertain of his sociopathic tendencies, Heathcliff then hangs his wife’s dog.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Alternating between the date and the shoot-out gives the love story extra impact, as the unadulterated joy between Angela and Mike is even more pronounced when placed against the sociopathic violence of Stockwell’s existence.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2026
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The ongoing controversy surrounding the police shooting of a mentalliy ill Queens schizophrenic man who charged at cops with a knife ratcheted up a notch Wednesday with the release of 911 audio the NYPD says makes clear police were going to be responding to the episode.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2026
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The most compelling aspect of Newsom’s biography is his schizophrenic upbringing, vis-à-vis wealth.—
Maya Singer,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
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Marty is not cultured, colorful and neurotic with a penchant for Yiddish outbursts.—
David Colman,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Feb. 2026
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There’s Bill Walsh, the brilliant, neurotic coach who some feel burned out too soon.—
Daniel Brown,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
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Losses were imposed on non-tech companies too, as investors became paranoid about how much damage AI might inflict upon sectors like trucking, real estate, and finance.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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And stay vigilant — not paranoid, but aware of your surroundings.—
Amelia Mugavero,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Margot Robbie’s Catherine is whimsical, impulsive and occasionally delusional, a woman intoxicated by her own volatility.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
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Fourth, despite the near-zero chance that the project would ever be completed, this hasn’t stopped delusional souls from looking beyond the primary Los Angeles to San Francisco project.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
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Importantly, some psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder are characterized by impulsivity, or a lack of hesitation, while excessive hesitation is a crippling consequence of several anxiety disorders.—
Eric Yttri,
The Conversation,
12 Feb. 2026
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Cole’s attorneys pointed to his lack of criminal record and diagnoses for autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder as reasons to let him out of jail as the case progresses.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
30 Jan. 2026
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My practice now includes a detailed history of eating disorders and monitoring for disordered eating throughout treatment.—
Jody Dushay,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
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For perspective, the help-seeking rate for those with disordered eating or eating disorders in the general population is between 32% and 40%.—
Emily Hemendinger,
The Conversation,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Psychopathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/psychopathic. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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