Psychopathy Disorder

“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

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Throughout this paper, there will be a number of studies done on criminals, offenders, and children in order to determine ways of identifying psychopaths through causes of psychopathy. In the article “Investigations of Criminal and Conditional Release Profiles of Canadian Federal Offenders as a Function of Psychopathy and Age,” Birt and her associates conducted a study on over 300 Canadian federal offenders, with around 90 being identified as psychopaths. They identified the psychopaths through a test called The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised or PCL-R. After identification, they defined whether the crimes were violent and if so, which type of violence (647). To complete their study, they made sure to follow the offenders’ behavior once they

Psychopathology disorder is any abnormal pattern of functioning that may be describe as deviant, distress, dysfunction and dangerous Comer (2013). According to the article, Matej Curko behavior have meet the criteria of Deviance abnormality. The first thing he did is to open a social network to interact with the people who wanted to commit suicide to convinced them, drug, kill, and eat them. A normal person with his senses will not try such an abominable acts. Secondly he build a ritual alter in the Slovakia forest and live there. He brake the legal norms in Slovakia and the norm in psychological functioning. Matej family accounted his highly unusual behavior to the Italian police. He falls in the ten scale test on the MMP1 profile indicating a person general personality of Schizophrenia which shows bizarre or unusual behavior. His family would find solution for his problem immediately they have notice the unusual behavior either by the electroencephalogram test or by the psychologist (Williams & Butcher 2011). Kittrie (1971), focusing on decriminalization, contends that the foundation of the therapeutic state can be found in determinist criminology, that it stems from the power of the state. Which means the state right to help those who are unable to help themselves). Pason

Also of note is a replication of the same study used on an adolescent population with psychopathic tendencies have shown the same associations (Blair,1997). The similarity between the two samples perpetuates the notion that psychopathy is a developmental disorder and is consistent throughout the lifespan, it also provides evidence that specific deficits in guilt may extend to non-clinical samples, which is one of the purposes of my study. To date, and to my knowledge lack of guilt has not been looked at specificity in non-clinical samples nor have subtypes of psychopathy been compared.

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

Introduction The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast the constructs of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. The aim is to highlight whether the terms psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder reflect the same construct or whether they differ. Furthermore, recommendations for treatment of criminal behavior will be explored. For the purposes of this evaluation some definitions need to be highlighted: Criminal offence is an act that breaks a law, which relates how to behave in society. The harm caused by the act is seen to be against society as a whole, not just a specific person. Sometimes it refers to the specific law that was broken (Herring, 2009). Crime is the breach of rules or law for which some authority

Psychopathy is a disorder caused by biological, environmental, and psychological factors that result in both interpersonal/affective deficits and social deviance/antisocial behaviors. It can be broken down into primary psychopathy and secondary psychopathy. Primary psychopathy mainly encompasses the interpersonal/affective components of psychopathy, such as superficial charm, lack of empathy, remorse or guilt, and manipulative tactics. These aspects of psychopathy are typically life-long and caused by biological deficits. Secondary psychopathy involves the social deviance/antisocial behaviors components of psychopathy, such as impulsive behavior, aggression, lack of responsibility, and need for excitement. These aspects are typically more attributable to the environmental determinants of psychopathy. Psychopathy, unlike Antisocial Personality Disorder, includes both conduct and personality components.

According to Jackson (2008) these assessments can aide with predicting the onset of psychopathic characteristics. With this in mind, one can study the development of these traits through childhood and adolescence, as well as, bridging the gap between childhood and adult psychopathy (Jackson, 2008). Another area that will benefit for assessing for conduct disorders in juvenile settings is the risk for recidivism. In a study conducted by Yampolskava and Chuang (2012) found children with conduct disorder, as well as having other mental health disorders possessed 80% for recidivism. The contributing factors for these juveniles’ behaviors were associated with childhood

Research has shown that childhood psychopathy is associated with fearlessness, risk taking, aggression, theft, lying, destruction, vandalism, initiating fights, being physically cruel to people or animals, and forcing sexual activity (as cited by e.g., Asscher et al., 2011; Blair et al., 2006; Salekin, 2006; Viding, Blair, Moffitt, & Plomin, 2005). Psychopathy is starting to become an important issue of concern within the helping profession, but only one dimension of the condition, the limited prosocial emotion, has been incorporated in the DSM–5. Given the complexity of the disorder, adding the limited prosocial emotion condition only will continue to underrepresent this major disorder in the diagnostic system (Salekin,

Psychopaths can seem just like you or me, but when you are not around them this is when their mental disorder kicks in. Psychopaths that have been put in jail committed three times as many crimes per year then non-psychopaths. 97% of convicted psychopathic criminals cause at least one violent crime compared to 74% of non-psychopaths. Psychopaths are shown to be more violence throughout their entire life compared to a regular people. Psychopaths tend to have a greater chance of failing on parole and mandatory supervision and have a faster rate of failing then non-psychopaths. Psychopathy predicts recidivism on conditional release as well as or better than do actuarial risk instruments. Psychopaths recidivate at a rate of three to four times higher than that of non-psychopaths.

Past research that observes the relationships between psychopathic traits and emotional recognition has been conducted on facial expressions. Categorising emotional facial expressions allows our response to our environment to be of an appropriate manner. Evidence has shown that people with psychopathic tendencies show impairments in recognising facial expressions for a range of emotions. There is strong evidence surrounding the impaired emotional facial recognition in psychopaths, however, their low-level perceptual categorisation of vocal expressions remains unexplored.

This is a personality disorder sometimes referred to as sociopathic personality where those affected show no regard for moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others. They may appear quite intelligent at first but may be manipulative and deceptive. They lack any guilt of wrongdoing. If they injure someone they may understand it intellectually that they have caused harm but they feel no remorse. They are impulsive and lack the ability to withstand frustration but can still be charming , engaging and highly persuasive like con artists. They may have come from a home where a parent died or left or where there was no affection or discipline or outright rejection. They may even come from lower socioeconomic

Research has shown that childhood psychopathy is associated with fearlessness, risk taking, deceitfulness, theft, destructiveness, vandalism, initiating fights, being physically cruel to people or animals, and forcing sexual activity (as cited by e.g., Asscher et al., 2011; Blair et al., 2006; Salekin, 2006; Viding, Blair, Moffitt, & Plomin, 2005). To be diagnosed with conduct disorder, these behaviors must be present for at least a six-month time period or longer. Psychopathy is starting to become an important issue of concern within the helping profession, but only one dimension of the condition, the limited prosocial emotion, has been incorporated in the DSM–5 (Salekin, 2015). The complexity of the disorder is already substantial, and adding

In Hemphälä and Hodgins (2014) study, utilized different checklists and questionnaires in their clinical interviews with mid-adolescent patients who sought treatment for substance misuse. The researchers wanted to test their hypothesis on whether psychopathic traits could predict criminal outcomes over a 5-year period.