enforcing sadism

enforcing sadism (uncountable)

1. (historical, psychiatry) One of the four subtypes of sadistic personality disorder as defined by the american psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

• Sadistic personality disorder was introduced in DSM-III-R and removed in DSM-IV. personality disorder not otherwise specified may be used instead.

• Any individual with sadistic personality disorder may exhibit either one of the following somewhat different subtypes (Note that Millon believes it is rare for a personality with one pure variant, but rather a mixture of one major variant with one or more secondary variants):

• spineless sadism
• tyrannical sadism
• explosive sadism