The Pall Mall Gazette publishes the first recognized account of the term psychopath as we understand it today. Reporting on the acquittal of a Russian woman in a child murder case, the Gazette points to the testimony of Dr. M. Balinsky as being central to the verdict in the case, having informed the jury that the accused was suffering from "psychopathy," and therefore morally irresponsible.

In explaining this "new malady" Dr. Balinsky is quoted as saying that the psychopath "is an individual whose every moral faculty appears to be of the normal equilibrium. He thinks logically, he distinguishes good and evil, and he acts according to reason. But of all moral notions he is entirely devoid. Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath."

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