Definitions of disheartened on the Web:   * demoralized: made less hopeful or enthusiastic; desperate demoralized people looking for work; felt discouraged by the â¦magnitude of the problem ... wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn  * Deprived of hope, despairing en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disheartened.
He believes that psychopathy is more of a category than a dimension. This means that someone either is or is not a psychopath. Notably, other researchers disagree and believe that psychopathic traits fall on a continuum. How common is psychopathy? Hare estimates that about 50 - 75% of the prison population meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder but only 15-25% exceed the cut-off point for psychopathy. Hare also estimates that psychopaths make up about 1% of the general population.
a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc. 2. any mental disease. Origin of psychopathy.