Illustration showing the pleasure that sadistic people often have from hurting someone.
Specialty
Psychiatry, clinical psychology
Symptoms
Cruelty, manipulation using fear, preoccupation with violence
Complications
Substance use disorder, marital, occupational and legal difficulties
Usual onset
Adolescence
Causes
Unclear
Risk factors
Childhood abuse
Diagnostic method
Based on symptoms
Differential diagnosis
Antisocial personality disorder and Sexual sadism disorder
Personality disorders
Cluster A (odd)
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Cluster B (dramatic)
Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic
Cluster C (anxious)
Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive–compulsive
Not otherwise specified
Depressive
Depressive
Cyclothymic
Others
Passive–aggressive
Masochistic
Sadistic
Psychopathy
Haltlose
Immature
Post-traumatic organic
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Sadistic personality disorder was a proposed personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior. People with this disorder were thought to have desired to control others. It was believed they accomplish this through the use of physical or emotional violence. This diagnosis appeared in an appendix of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R).[1] The later versions of the DSM (DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR, and DSM-5) do not include it. It was removed as psychiatrists believed it would be used to legally excuse sadistic behavior.
^Hucker, Stephen J. Sadistic Personality Disorder
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