sadism

In the 19th century, when modern clinical psychology was being born, it may have seemed reasonable for the notoriously depraved Marquis de Sade to have been associated with “sadism”. Few raised an eyebrow when the long-dead French author’s…

The notion of finding pleasure in another’s pain is, of course, far from a new development in the human psyche. Going back to ancient times, when the Assyrians boasted of mutilating their prisoners and murdering their children, there…