Biblical strongman was plagued by mental illness, says UCSD psychiatrist Eric Altschuler, who finds he demonstrated six out of the seven cardinal criteria for antisocial personality disorder. As a clinical psychiatrist myself, I hate these constant attention-getting attempts to retrospectively diagnose historical, artistic and spiritual figures with mental illnesses. You might think it’s just an innocent intellectual pastime of my colleagues, but the sensationalistic publicity about these pronouncements perpetuates an irresponsible image that diagnosis can be done at a distance from “surface” features in the absence of access to reports of the subject’s experience. More than that, it “feathers the bed” of the field by pushing the envelope of pathological explanations of extraordinary talents or exploits. New Scientist