Common Traits And Characteristics Of Psychopaths

Have you ever imagined one of your friends being a psychopath? Dr. Philippe Pinel has described a psychopath as “madness without confusion.” Psychopaths are not insane and knows what is right from wrong. However, they don’t recognize the consequences, feel any remorse for his or her “victims”. Those who are born as a psychopath are called a primary psychopath, and secondary psychopaths are those who are affected by their surrounding environment. You might think that all psychopaths murder or rape without feeling guilt or remorse. However, not all psychopaths are criminals or rapists. A case study and a short test show how psychopaths can be normal people.

Definition of psychopath is someone who with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder.

Psychopathy is an extremely complex subcategory of a specific personality disorder. This disorder has been researched since approximately the 18th century. Modern technology in science can detect psychopathy by examining the human brain using different techniques. This technology can and should be used to prevent violence in the world today.

There is an obvious difference between the neurological structure of psychopaths and the average human. There are multiple different scans used to detect different formations. A PET scan will detect brain activity when the subject is given a task. An MRI will show of the size of the components of the brain and if they have changed. To measure brainwaves an EEG is used. Since psychopaths have a different brain structure, their frontal lobe does not function the same as the average person. The frontal lobe is responsible for making judgements, problem solving, and impulse control. They understand the difference between right and wrong, but they simply do not care. The amygdala is accountable for aggression, fear and guilt. Psychopaths lack the ability to perceive guilt. Since there is no guilt, aggression is

A psychopath is someone cold, remorseless, and incapable of empathy. Is also someone manipulative, narcissistic and impulsive; someone very likely to do

The concept of psychopathy originated in the 1800s to describe individuals that consistently failed to conform to societal norms and exhibited antisocial behavior that did not fit the concept of mental illness of the time period. While, psychopathy was a common term used to describe individuals suffering from this disorder other descriptions were coined such as “Pinel’s term “manie sans delvie” meaning mania without delirium in the 1700s, to describe patents whose ‘affective faculties were disordered’” or Pritchard’s term “moral insanity” (Ogloff 520). In the 1930’s Partridge argued that psychopathy was a social rather than a mental disorder and proposed that the concept of sociopathy be introduced as a more accurate description. The American Psychological Association adopted Partridge’s term for their Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel in 1952. However, in 1968 the American Psychological Association changed the diagnostic label from sociopath to “personality disorder, antisocial” for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel – II that continued through to the DSM - III in 1980 and the DSM - III-R in 1987 and the DSM - IV in 1994. Today the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel categorizes antisocial personality disorder as a personality disorder and it is named as such. Unfortunately, not much research has been conducted

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of interpersonal, affective and behavioral characteristics. (Harc, 1998) There are many personality traits that accompany those who are considered to be a psychopath. High levels of aggression or delinquency, and antisocial behaviors are all seen in youth with personalities correlating

Psychopathy is a personality disorder define by a distinctive cluster of traits and deviant behaviors. These personality traits become diagnosed once they are starting to show inflexibility, maladaptive, and persistence. They also cause significant impairment and subjective distress. Psychopaths show a high amount of antisocial behavior and abusiveness to people such as others, family, and themselves which causes them to commit crimes. Though lacking empathy and show of superficial feelings, they often tend to be anybody. Ted B. most famous quote was “We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere.”

“Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by an inability to form human attachment, aggressive narcissism, and antisocial behavior defined by a constellation of affective, interpersonal and behavioral characteristics, most of which society views as pejorative” [1]. Some of these characteristics include irresponsibility, grandiosity, cunning, deceitfulness, selective impulsivity, sexual promiscuity, lack of empathy, etc. People who are psychopathic display not only antisocial behavior but also emotional impairment such as the lack of guilt. They are able to prey on others using their charm, deceit, violence or any other methods that allow them to get what they want. A strong feature of most of the behavior

According to Pinel (1801) psychopathy is defined as persons with complete cognitive capacity but these persons experienced spontaneous and antisocial behavior. These persons suffered from mania without insanity. Pinel (1801) in his description was distinguishing those persons whose unlawful acts and depraved acts were due to mental deficiencies or psychopathology as opposed to those with no indication of any mental defects.

Many things set psychopaths apart from normal people, but the qualities that psychopaths possess are what truly make them psychopaths. The brains' of psychopaths are always damaged in away that affects their ability to feel emotion the same way we do as well as their ability to control themselves from bringing harm to others. In "Exploring the mind of a Killer", a Ted Talk given by Jim Fallon, it is explained that all psychopaths "had damage to their orbital cortex...and also the interior part of the temporal lobe." The orbital cortex has a lot to do with emotions and decision making, so if it is damaged, the person may have trouble making desk ions skillfully and feeling accurate emotions for their situations (both traits that psychopaths

According to my first source, a psychopath is someone who is “utterly selfish, egoistical, vain, idle, callous often to the point of brutality, devoid of normally affectionate feelings or remorse” (McCallum, 1). When Joy was walking home from school one day, as a seventeen year old girl, Old Nick pretended that his dog was sick, tricking Joy into getting into the car with him. He then took her back to his home, and held her captive in a shed in his backyard. He approached the kidnapping with a sense of normalcy. Old Nick smooth talked Joy in a manipulative way, and in the state of mind to kidnap, impregnate, and hold hostage an innocent human.

Psychopathy is a common term used to “describe a grouping of personality traits that include such things as impulsive behavior, lack of regard for others, lack of a normal range of emotional responsiveness and frequent deception or manipulation of others” (Elements Behavioral Health). Antisocial Personality Disorder and psychopathy are used interchangeably to describe the psychological and personality disorder that causes one to disregard human life. While the American Psychiatric Association uses the terms interchangeably, many believe these two disorders to be similar, yet separate disorders. Many people do agree however that most psychopaths are afflicted with antisocial personality disorder. One major concept to know is that most psychopaths are antisocial personalities, but not all antisocial personalities are psychopaths (much like how a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not square). For the sake of avoiding confusion, the following research will focus on the aspect that most psychopaths are antisocial personalities in order to examine characters from the blockbuster hit, Silence of the Lambs.

Psychopath means someone suffering from an antisocial personality disorder that makes them completely non-empathetic guilt and remorse free. They are uncaring and have very little regard for the society, morals and other people. Psychopaths are scary enough as it is and to make it worst there are different types of psychopaths out there.

Many hear the term “psychopath” more than once in a lifetime. Often this phrase gets thrown around without people knowing what it actually means, and often, it is taken as a joke. A psychopath is a person who is suffering from a serious mental disorder that can be shown in extreme acts of violence and abnormal social behaviours; such as extreme antisocial disorder and they also tend to be extremely controlling or possessive in most situations. Psychopaths lack a conscience, which tells you what is right and wrong, and they also lack remorse, guilt, and the like. There is huge controversy around whether a psychopath is deserving of sympathy or whether they should be locked away for treatment that will not even work. Psychopaths are deserving