maintenance service - Computer Definition A service provided to keep a product in good operating condition. One of the strong selling points for the rise of software as a service (SaaS) was that all program maintenance is provided by the vendor of the application. See SaaS.
For the former trade union, see Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators. Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), also known as dissocial personality disorder (DPD) and sociopathy, is a personality disorder, characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, or violation of, the rights of others.
In many ways the sociopath is a cypher for many of the anxieties we have about the loss of community and living among people we do not know. In this sense, the sociopath is a very modern sort of deviant. Contemporary approaches to psychopathy and sociopathy have focused on biological and genetic causes.