Sentence:  ... and may discover that the potency of this politician-father had so altered the freedom with which corrective authority could be imposed on his son that to an extraordinary extent the person as an adult continues to suffer from <WSD>warp</WSD> acquired at home as a child. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.