The biblical hero Samson exhibited symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, according to a new scholarly article. Dr. Eric Altschuler, in the Archives of General Psychiatry, cites Samson’s failure to conform to social norms by torching the Philistines’ fields and then refusing arrest; repeatedly lying to his parents; displaying impulsiveness and repeatedly getting involved in physical fights and cruelty to animals.
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