This is Bioethics Bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.

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or to iTunes You. If someone caught me shoplifting and I was later diagnosed with kleptomania, should I be held responsible?

Should I be blamed? There's a growing body of knowledge in psychiatry and

neuroscience about why people think and behave the way they do. And according to one

school of thought, as our knowledge expands, so the space for responsibility contracts.

Hannah Picard is not from that school.

She believes we can, one and the same time, diagnose a disorder and hold the person

with that disorder responsible.

Dr Pickard is an Oxford-based philosopher and therapist and the holder of a Welcome Trust Fellowship

examining the nature of responsibility and morality within personality disorder.

Hannah Pickard, welcome to bioethics bites.

Thank you.

The topic we're going to talk about is personality disorder and responsibility.

Could we just begin by clarifying what personality disorder is?

Personality disorder, as the name implies, is a disorder of the personality.

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