With my psychotherapy training, I am constantly diagnosing characters in novels. Face it, aberrant behavior is the core of thrillers, mysteries and other fictional genres. Was Darth Vader crazy or crazy like a fox? What about gentle Bartleby the Scrivener? Dave Gibson's article in Mother Jones' gives his take and more.
My key characters in Taylor Kendall: Evil Inc represent several diagnosis categories: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder and just plain EVIL (not an official DSM code, but no mystery even to the layperson).
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