Psychopathy Personality Disorder

Science released an article entitled “Facial Expressions—Including Fear—May Not Be as Universal as We Thought”, written by Michael Pierce on October 17, 2016. In this article Pierce discusses how 50 years ago it was assumed that facial expressions were universal. However, it has been found that in the present day, this may not be the case. Expressions such as happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, or hunger, were all assumed to be expressed the same way as well as interpreted the same way. A study was conducted in the Trobriand Islands, were Trobrianders were shown as series of photos with facial expressions. They were asked to describe the emotions they interpreted from the photos, the results were intriguing. Pierce (2016) describes how

However, more recently, a study led by King’s College London has claimed that there are differences between the brains of psychopaths and other criminal offenders diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Dr. Nigel Blackwood who led the research is quoted as saying “We describe those without psychopathy as 'hot-headed' and those with psychopathy as ‘cold-hearted’.” This statement shows a clear distinction between what should be interpreted as a lack of self-control and ability to repress impulses and what should be diagnosed as psychopathy.
The study took MRI scans of 66 men, two thirds of which were offenders who had been diagnosed with antisocial personality whilst the other third were non-offenders considered to not have any personality disorders. Of the 44 offenders, 17 met the diagnosis criteria for psychopathy (ASPD+P) assessed by the guidelines stated in the DSM-IV. Researchers saw that the members of the study diagnosed as psychopaths had notably less grey matter in areas associated with moral behaviour and understanding other peoples’

We’ve all experienced the feeling that we’ve moved into a different life, dissociation from reality, just mild like when we daydream, delve into a good book or become engrossed with a project. But then after that, we do still come back to reality. However, some people are diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder or the popular multiple personality disorder (MPD). This differ from mild dissociation that all of us commonly experience. People who have this live a fairly complicated life. Sadly, people who have this experience traumatic physical, sexual or emotional abuse during their childhood.

Although it is difficult to imagine a child being psychopathic, it is crucial that we are able to recognize psychopathic behaviors in children. Mental health professionals say they could easily detect early psychopathic tendencies in childhood, but do not want to actually label the child a psychopath yet (Stenson, 2009). According to Duncan, it is difficult to imagine a child doing such things because everyone automatically expects them to fit into the Innocent/ The Child archetype (Schill, 2012).

It is very rare to study something that is as fascinating yet as bewildering as the distinctive paradox, that is the human brain. Every individuals conflicting behaviour and elaborate character that make them the person they are must have a justification. I originally established a fascination in forensic psychology as I read about a sequence of homicides committed by Gary Ridgway, otherwise known as the “Green River Killer”. Upon discovery of this case, questions began to pervade in my head about what may be the cause for an individual to execute such things, and just how someone’s mind could be so peculiarly dissimilar to my own.

Main Idea: Your physical expression and attitude can affect your mood. MSD: The act of maintaining a frown caused the students to feel angry. Those students induced to make a smiling face reported feeling happier and found cartoons more humourous. Half of the class felt different depending on what they were told to do.

Avoidant personality disorder is an anxious personality disorder characterized by extreme levels of discomfort in public, beliefs in one’s relative inadequacy, and sensitivity to criticism (Comer 425). Oftentimes, people with this condition prefer to be solitary over risking rejection by the outside world (Avoidant); they do whatever possible to keep others from gaining the opportunity to hurt them. Some psychologists distinguish avoidant personality disorder from social anxiety disorder (Comer 425) while others believe they should not be considered separate disorders due to the significant symptom overlap and the frequency of co-occurrence (Nelson-Gray 31).

“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

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

Aggressive-sadistic personality disorder (SPD) and anti-social personality disorder (APD), are two personality disorders which ought to be explored in order to provide a deeper understanding of sadistic crime (Ruocco & Platek, 2006). SPD is basically gaining pleasure and becoming sexually aroused by inflicting pain on others through aggression and/or violence (Ruocco & Platek, 2006). An example of an individual with SPD traits is someone who tortures or humiliates another during sexual activities for their own sexual gratification. Whereas, APD is categorised by little or no concern for another person’s rights and/or feelings (Ruocco & Platek, 2006; Tiihonen et al., 2008) This relates to sadistic crime as due to a lack of empathy for others

As reported by Harma Mefferet, Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola, researchers and authors of Brain Research Shows Psychopathic Criminals Do Not Lack Empathy, But Fail To Use It Automatically, published in Science Daily, psychopaths’ brains fail to use empathy as a default, but can switch to “empathy mode” when asked to. Researchers from the Social Brain Lab of the University Medical Center in Groningen (The Netherlands), recruited psychopathic criminals to better understand how they do not feel guilt or empathy when attacking their victims. Regular, non-psychopathic humans’ brains have a “mirror system.” When the somatosensory cortex is activated, it allows us to feel touch. In contrast, the insula allows us to feel pain and disgust when

psychopathy is also known as APD, which is a psychological personality disorder where in persons lack emotions and empathy and they consistently behave in certain way such as lack of fear, lack of inhibition and a stimulus seeking behaviour. Psychopathic adults have also demonstrated physiological idiosyncrasies’ wherein they display indifferent temperament to the threat to pain and

The pathoplastic model states that there is a bidirectional relationship between personality and psychopathology (Widiger & Smith, 2010). This model suggests that as personality can be affected by the presence of psychopathology, and psychopathology can be influenced by the individual’s personality. Given this bidirectional relationship, it is difficult to stablish whether one’s current personality traits are product of the psychopathology, or the psychopathology is an outcome of the traits.

The article deals with the personality pathology in childhood and adolescence. The relevance of this paper is conditioned by the fact that the development of personality disorders is still poorly understood. There is much that remains to be closely scrutinized.

Psychopathic leaders come under the umbrella of psychopathy. The concept of psychopathy is widely contested from a theoretical as well as a scientific point of view. Though its importance is evident not only in the fields of psychiatry and psychology, but also in other disciplines, such as criminology and management, the concept and use of the word psychopath has a rather long history all of its own, yet, in spite of its history, a good deal of conceptual confusion remains. Many authors have honed in on a very specific type of deviant behavior that at its core is distinctly different from mental illness or psychosis-related behavior. Negative leadership behaviors are known for creating hostile work environments for employees and affecting group