...people think of a psychopath or sociopath they think of a person who is violent and has a lack of guilt. These traits are both true. But, a psychopath has many more characteristics that people see with the naked eye. Most psychopaths are anti-social and do not relate to others as normal people do. They usually plan out their violent attacks with no emotion or sympathy to what they do. To some people they get the tags “emotionless,” “fearless,” and “unstoppable.” The reason that psychopaths do not fear anything is because they somehow lack anxiety and feel that nothing matters to them. It is also hard to say what motivates a psychopath, could it be control or dominance possibly, but most psychopaths have had no long relationships with anyone in their lives or any purpose for the things they do other than planning violence. They tend to have a grandiose demeanor and an attitude of entitlement like other people owe them something. Certain brain disorders and hormonal imbalances make a person become a psychopath. There are four different types of psychopaths. First, there are primary psychopaths. This type of person does not respond to any type of punishment, apprehension, stress, or disapproval for the things that they do. For a primary psychopath, words to not connect to them like words would for a normal person. It is also unclear to scientist if they even understand the meaning of their own words and this is a condition known as “semantic aphasia.” These psychopaths have no life...
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...The Psychopath Understanding and Treatment Abstract Mental health disorders are among the most complex disorders to understand. Persons with these types of disorders are not commonly accepted into society. Psychopaths are among some of the most difficult disorders to treat. These persons most often come from a background lacking structure and continuity. Proper treatment is heavily debated. Report It is a popular belief that psychopaths are considered to be individuals that are as brilliantly charming as they are morally insane. However, the tendency to refer to the psychopathic behavior as “morally insane” is a misconception. Regardless of scientific discoveries, psychopathy is a disease which results in a physiological deficiency. The brain of psychopaths is believed to fail in generation of proper wave activity. Waves emitted are generally slower in individuals suffering from psychopathic behavior. This fundamental incompetence is responsible for a lower degree of arousal when these persons face a threatening situation. Their lack of anxiety and consequent careless behavior in any situation is commonly referred to as lack of conscience. These individuals lack the plethora of emotions that arise in the “normal” individual; that is, the ability to feel, to anticipate the breaking of the law, or to feel sorry when they break these laws. They are deprived of a conscience which organizes the moral notions of good and bad. In normal behavior, acts are constrained by...
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...Good morning class, my name is alyazia al kamda, i would like to present about psychopaths in general. According to urban dictionary: psychopath is a person tend to lack normal human emotion such as guilt and empathy. they are also often high skilled at manipulating others. so who are they? they can be your neighbours, person sitting next u and person serving you in cafe or restaurant or minimarket, person you walked past this morning. Then There are 20 characteristics according to robert hare , psychopathic and criminal behavior; Psychophysiology. Hare has been devoted to understanding the nature of psychopathy. Those are the 20 characteristics belong to Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) that the FBI and other american agency use...
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...Eng. 102 Revealing a Psychopath “If you’re in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity, it is human nature to veer towards the madness end” (Ronson 72). In other words what Jon Ronson is trying to say is that humans by nature are always looking for craziness. One example is a teenage boy always wondering, “What would happen if…” What would happen if I drink one of my dad’s beers instead of the Mountain Dew next to it; would he find out? Or another example when you get your first car, you want to press and investigate what each button or pedal does and you see the accelerator. The first thing that might run to your mind is what would happen if I just press this all the way down? Despite the fact that we know the consequences we still do them because humans by nature veer towards madness as said by Ronson. After reading Ronsons “The Psychopath Test” I realized that we all have some type of manic tendencies or a disorder in us, yet we are not all considered psychopaths. Once Ronson started reading the DSM he started to diagnose himself with disorders and some of these disorders also pertained to me. The disorders were arithmetic learning disorder and caffeine induced disorder. As a kid I was never the best at math so did that mean I had arithmetic learning disorder? How about when you drink coffee for the first time and you start getting the jitters, does that mean you have caffeine induced disorder? In this section of the book I believe that the procedure...
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...someone with a disposition of being a psychopath to convert in to a full grade psychopath. People with this condition exhibit lack of emotions or very shallow ones. Emotions such as shame, guilt and embarrassment aren’t present in the minds of these individuals. They tend to blame their faults on others, a process which is called "blame externalization". They show a lack of empathy towards any living creature which makes them be very "coldhearted", they tend to be selfish, egocentric, and extremely overconfident. But what really makes these individuals dangerous is that those traits combines can make a human being overly aggressive, violent and impulsive. They are smart and have are incredibly good at blending in with society and are very adept liars, meaning they can lie with all sense of truth in their words. So they appear to be completely normal and in many cases very charming and outgoing. All that combined with a sense of complete dominance makes the perfect killer. These are all the conditions needed to fill the lis of criteria as to what makes a psychopath, Dr. William Hirstein on psychologytoday.com says: " The current approach to defining sociopathy and the related concepts is to use a list of criteria. The first such list was developed by Hervey Cleckley (1941), who is known as the first...
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... He is the author of four bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test, and Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries. In an interview, Ronson stated his reason why he wrote The Psychopath Test, “I wanted to write a book about madness because it has always been—I think— the elephant in the room of my other books. Do the people I write about behave the strange ways they do because madness is the engine that powers them? I felt I needed to address this question head-on. Is madness the force that makes the world go around?” The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry starts out with a mystery. A group of the world’s top researchers are plagued by an elaborate riddle, set in a series of curiously handmade books, and Ronson is called upon to investigate. He is of course, an established London writer, and by this time, fairly well-known for his taste in investigative journalism. Ronson is sucked into the mystery immediately, with an obsessive, infectious fervor. It’s through the riddle Ronson was introduced to, when he unwittingly stumbles into the world of psychopaths. Once solved, he finds that the world is populated by a group of people he had never truly examined—people that act without empathic reason and wreak havoc on the world simply because they can. This realization is what sparks the hunt for psychopaths and what makes this book such a captivating read. He moves from influential psychologists who teach him how...
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...within their own perspective. That there is something wrong with them, that they must be suicidal or just plain psychopaths without moral feelings. Only someone with something wrong with them could do the cold-blooded killing that a terrorist does. Scott Atran's "Genesis of Suicide Terrorism" in Science Magazine (2003) offers that Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and...
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...An Inside into a Killer’s Mind Psychopathy is defined as a personality disorder characterized by a lack of remorse, empathy, anxiety, and other social emotions; the use of deceit and manipulation; and impulsive thrill seeking. (Wade 383) According to the article “What ‘Psychopath’ Means”, it is stated that 25% of inmates in prison meet the criteria to be diagnosed as a psychopath. With so many criminals diagnosed as psychopaths can serial killers be classified as psychopaths and therefore “excused” for the crimes they commit? Many researchers agree that serial killers tend to lack empathy, compassion, and crave power. Serial killers have been an interesting topic throughout history. There are the infamous serial killers like Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jack the Ripper, etc. (Encyclopedia) According to Richard Whittington’s journal “The Serial Killer Phenomenon,” “A large number of serial killers have such characteristics in common, as being essentially a loner, experiencing difficulty with relationships, and showing, psychopathically, neither empathy, conscience, nor remorse, only arrogance.” Whittington believes that most serial killers are outsiders or “rejects”, but many serial killers display normal characteristics which is why it may come as a surprise to friends and family that their loved one is indeed a killer. If serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, than what are the common characteristics that they all seem to share? Whittington states, “the power to dominate…...
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...Is cheating and murder analogous? Is it the adrenaline rush of possibly getting caught? Maybe it’s like a drug once you start it you can’t stop. The legal definition of a serial killer is someone who has killed at least three people in a matter of thirty days. All serial killers are psychopaths and sociopaths, but be that as it may not all sociopaths and psychopaths are killers. To know a killer we have to get into the mindset of one. Nevertheless, the question that still stands is what makes a serial killer? The dictionary definition of a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable pattern (Oxford). What is a sociopath? A sociopath is a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience ( Dictionary). What is a psychopath? A psychopath is a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc (Dictionary)....
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...92 percent on the statements presented. For example, the social work profession and me holds the same view regarding transgender and gender non-conforming individuals using restrooms based on their gender identity, congress adapting a minimum wage based on the cost of living, federal funding supporting research in stem cell usage to prevent disease, supporting paid time off for new parents, early childhood education being universally available, funding domestic violence program for both the perpetrator and the victim and promoting syringe exchange programs to stop the spread of HIV and so on. The similarities rely solely on the values of the social work profession: Service, social justice, dignity and worth of a person, importance of all human relationship, integrity and competence (National Association of Social Work, 2017). Nevertheless, the social work profession and me hold opposing views on the death penalty being appropriate and that HIV testing of pregnant women should be conducted...
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...University Communication for Social Change Dr. Dorcas Francisco April 21, 2013 The persistence of poverty can often lead to upheaval – Pradip Thomas The persistence of the poor to overcome systemic forces that sustain poverty will lead to upheaval – Matt Kramer (with gratitude to Pradip Thomas) Predatory Leadership (PL) is the working title for a phenomenon describing a set of anti-social behaviors and how the actors displaying these behaviors have been able, over the course of thousands of years, to disproportionately manipulate and distort the evolution of civilization into a paradigm in which the worst aberrations of human behavior, including war, poverty, famine, slavery, economic exploitation, corruption in government and industry, and other forms of social injustice are considered by many to be normal and unavoidable expressions of human behavior. A critical factor enabling predatory leaders to out-compete potential leaders of compassionate and collaborative leadership styles is based upon the premise that few people recognize signs of psychopathic behavioral symptoms early enough to make appropriate and timely choices protecting themselves from exploitation and abuse, or protecting positions of ultimate power and control from being occupied by the most toxic and malevolent of personalities. To provide some perspective on the nature and consequences of PL, consider a metaphorical comparison of the awareness of PL by today’s general population to the nature of...
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...killer. The majority of serial killers are natural born killers, nature over nurture, but most often than not it turns out to be a combination of the two. The brain of a serial killer functions on much different levels than the average mind. The public commonly refers serial murderers as psychopaths or sociopaths. In a podcast I recently listened to, called “Why We Love Serial Killers”, Dr. Scott A. Bonn, a criminology professor, was interviewed about his book of the same name. He explains that the terms, psychopath and sociopath, are not the same, they cannot be used interchangeably. A sociopath usually has social personality disorder which prevents him from having a social life. If we are referring to a sociopathic serial killer, he will be half and half out. He can feel some remorse and guilt (Bonn), but not enough to stop this compulsion to kill. A psychopath is “A callous, exploitative individual with blunted emotions, impulsive inclinations and an inability to feel guilt or remorse”(Brogaard). Someone who is disconnected and lacks empathy. Even though most serial killers are psychopaths not all psychopaths are serial killers(Bonn). This is important to know because psychopaths are all around us. They can be your dictating boss or crazy ex, the point is that, you probably don't like them. And there are lots of reasons for this. The main one is because they make us feel uncomfortable, they are the predictor and we are their prey. And when it comes to psychotic serial...
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...WR-123 Research Paper NOT ALL MONSTERS ARE MAKE BELIEVE - A CASE STUDY ON THEODORE R. BUNDY What causes someone to become a serial killer? Is there something inherently evil about them that emerge as they age, or are they born that way? Do they become that way because of their upbringing? Most Psychologists feel that it is a combination of all these things that determine the psychosis exhibited by serial killers. (www.psychology.org/links) Psychologists have looked into the darkest recesses of human behavior, to try to figure out how and why people commit such gruesome and brutal atrocities against their fellow human beings. One of the best cases of documented psychopathic behavior is that of Theodore R. Bundy. On November 24, 1946 Theodore Robert Cowell (aka Ted Bundy) was born. His mother was a single young woman who decided the best course of action was to move back home to have her parents help her raise her son; as in the 40’s it was not acceptable for a young single woman to have a child out of wedlock. Until the age of four, Ted believed that his mother was his older sister, and grandparents were his mother and father. (Rule, A: The Stranger Beside Me) The signs that something was dreadfully wrong with Ted began to show themselves very early in his childhood. When Ted was barely three years old, one of his Aunt’s stayed the night with the family. The Aunt woke up in the early morning hours to find her young nephew Ted, lifting her blankets...
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...On April 20th, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris murdered many of their teachers and classmates at Columbine High School. No one knows exactly what drove these two teenage boys to such horrific violence and many have asked that question over the past few years. Some say it was bullying and that they just took it to heart, but from studies, it was mainly because Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was depressed. Dylan Klebold was a very angry kid, and Eric Harris was fuel to the fire. Eric calmed down Dylan when he got hot-tempered, but at the same time, Dylan’s fits of rage served as the stimulation that Eric needed. Dylan was always looking on the bad side of things. He wrote lists of the bad and the good in his life. The good list was...
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...The real action of the film is Young Charlie’s loss of innocence as she begins to understand the world as it really is. While some critics, like Martin Blank, assert, “Uncle Charlie has […] corrupted Young Charlie’s innocence forever,”10 this analysis is incomplete. As the opening sequence suggests, Young Charlie was already discontent with her life in her family and hometown; thus her fall was inevitable. As Young Charlie begins to understand Uncle Charlie’s true nature—he is not a savior but rather a “charming psychopath”11—her idealism about life outside of Santa Rosa starts to crumble. In the end of the film, she is presented with potentially bleak choices: marry the detective, live inconsolably with her family, or risk a violent solitary life, like her uncle. Because she has already expressed her discontent with an “average” life in a small town, the marriage or life with her family would inevitably be oppressive, but the alternative is unfathomable. Her living in the house with Uncle Charlie as he tries to kill her is only a physical manifestation of this internal struggle. This reality—preserving the status quo or engaging in violent rebellion—has caused some critics, like James McLaughlin, to see the film as exposing the violent tension inherent in traditional family dynamics, especially for young women. To him, Uncle Charlie’s rage regarding widows is simply a fear of independent powerful women: “[rich widows] are regarded as inhuman and unnatural, unhinging both the...
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