Successful Psychopaths

patterns that concur with a lack of capacity to lead organized life, postpone satisfaction, and reach social success through normal means. A more likely personality antecedent to criminal behaviors in heroic leaders may be narcissism rather than psychopathy. The two personality traits have much in common as regards selfishness, shallow emotions, empathy, and a tendency to exploit others without remorse (Maples, Miller, Wilson, Seibert, Few and Zeichner 2010). Stimulating effects on psychological traits increase the likelihood of engaging in the white-collar crime.

The group of people that I chose to do intelligence research on was psychopaths, particularly serial killers. I did not focus on any particular subgroup, however there are subtypes of psychopaths such as primary and secondary and among those two subtypes it is further broken down into distempered and charismatic subtypes. In the article Psychopathy: Manipulation, Deception, and Evil, author Pamela Kulbarsh (2012) defines a psychopath as “a morally depraved individual who represent the ‘monsters’ in our society; an unstoppable and untreatable predator whose violence is planned, purposeful and emotionless” (p.1). While in the article it states that not all psychopaths are law-breakers that is a different story with serial killers

The PCL-R is a tool that enables a distinct group of psychologically abnormal offenders to be measured using a three point rating scale for twenty-two consistent behavioural characteristics. These characteristics have been underlying themes in an ongoing debate between psychiatrists on the definition and existence of psychopaths in discourse. While the literature takes no determinative stance, the psychopath has nonetheless become a distinct group in the binding legislation of the 1913 mental health Act. The PCL-R goes a step further than the act does to identify this group by not only suggesting that the “psychopath” is a statistically relevant group of criminals but Hare takes an objective approach that eliminates any likelihood of

Were they wrong? Were they psychopaths? There was a book recently published title “The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success”, by authors Andy McNab and Kevin Dutton. In the book, they compare the traits of a psychopath to those of individuals who have been successful in business. Some of the traits identified, Rand would recognize as fitting with her opinions, including reduced empathy for others and ruthlessness. According to Dutton, “None of these characteristics are inherently bad in themselves. When they become dysfunctional is when they are deployed inflexibly in the wrong contexts” (Weeks,

Overall, it was, in my opinion, a great reading. I was impressed how I have heard the term psychopathy, but it is startling how complex this personality disorder is. Of course, as the reading mentioned, oftentimes psychopaths are portrayed as cold-blooded, serial killers, etc. Indubitably, this might happen in some cases but the complexity it implies to determine if an individual is a psychopath is far beyond the reach a non-professional psychologist or psychiatrist. Therefore, this is the most interesting and surprising aspect of the reading and psychopathy itself, how hard it to identify a psychopath. In addition, the ways it is presented to people, not only by their personality traits and behavior but their ability to appear as charming

Scientist have tried to find out what makes a psychopath and are still trying to get a better insight in their minds. An important question is that is it nature or nurture or both that contributes to someone being a psychopath. Can we blame it all on neurochemistry or has environment got a role to play in it too? this gives rise to another question, does the brain of a psychopath resemble the brain of a normal human being?

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, by Jon Ronson explores the minds of psychopaths. This nonfiction book, published in 2011, analyses the question of, what is a psychopath? When most people try to answer this question they think of characters in well-known movies and books such as American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. They may also think of serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. In 1959, the Mental Health Act for England and Wales described psychopaths as a “disability of the mind which results in abnormally aggressive [...] conduct”. (PG 65). Just like many mental disorders such as autism and bipolar disorder are often misdiagnosed, so is psychopathy. As shown through this book, the normal human and even trained psychologist often find it difficult to spot and understand psychopaths. Psychopaths are a broader range of individuals than most people assume; they are serial killers, CEOs, politicians, and of course, the average person. Today, it is believed, that only one percent of humans are psychopaths.

Of all the psychiatric disorders, none are more chilling to the world then the psychopaths and sociopaths. These two disorders, categorized as antisocial personality disorders, bring about the absolute worse people and killers that the world has ever known. The infamous serial killers, the people who do the unimaginable, were all psychopaths. The ability of these people to do what they do and know that what they are doing is wrong, is perhaps one of the most chilling and shocking characteristic of these people. Psychopaths and sociopaths are very often thought by most to be the same disorder, yet they are different when classified by many psychiatric researchers. The people classified as psychopaths and sociopaths are separated by one main difference, and that is if they were born with a lack of the ability to empathize or if they were affected as children in a traumatic environment. Although both of these horrible disorders derive from a different area, the reality is that they are unpredictable, undetectable and most importantly, they can be very dangerous.

British-Irish writer-director Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”, “Seven Psychopaths”) abandons a five-year hiatus from the big screen to prove with “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, a commendable neo-noir crime film, that his filmmaking abilities matured considerably.

Corporate Psychopaths – Corporate psychopaths are individuals employed by organizations that are self-serving, opportunistic, egotistical, mean that are charismatic, manipulative and goal-seeking (Boddy, 2005, p. 30).

However, some studies have found out that nonpsychopaths and psychopaths differ with respect to how intelligence was associated with the severity of misconduct. Furthermore, the causes of misbehavior among nonpsychopathatic individuals may be different from the causes of misbehavior among psychopaths. Other studies have found that personality played an integral role in patterning of individual’s understanding as well their interactions with social, psychological, and physical environments and even though personality is a biologically determined, it is highly shaped by such factors like environment, motivation, and

The primary advantage of gathering information from “Why psychopaths are more successful” is the used of the lay languages or nonprofessional languages to clearly convey the scientific information to the audiences. Right at the beginning of the article, the author used phrases like “behaving like a psychopath could help you in your career and love life” to clarify the uncertainty of what the article going to be about to the audiences. Furthermore, authors also used lay languages to make his argument “the lack of fear which characterizes psychopaths could also help people in the workplace” which audience can understand easily in the context of the article. Therefore, implementation of the lay language in the popular articles can win a larger

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.

When we saw the movie “The Corporation”, they were called all the business men for psychopaths without conscience. According to the movie “The Corporation”, when they interview Robert Hare, a consultant who is working for the FBI. Robert Hare said: “Corporations by definition have a personality disorder and can be categorized as psychopathic. That is because they single-mindedly pursue their own wills and desires without any consideration for other people (or corporations) and without reference to conventional morality. They don't act that way to be evil; it's just, as the scorpion explained to the frog, that it's in their nature.” The next question is, what is the different between a “Human psychopath” and a “corporate psychopaths”? In the

Traits associated to a psychopath include irresponsibility, manipulation, grandioseness, lack of empathy, asocial tendencies, inability to feel remorse, refusal to take responsibility for one's actions and superficial relations with others. Modern day corporations display every one of the previously listed characteristics. Is it right that an institution, whose power now rivals that of the State that once created it to seek the better welfare of its citizens, display the psychological traits of a dangerous personality disorder? Many say no: there is a rising discomfort with the corporation and its pervasion into every sphere of human life and it is this uneasiness that has prompted many academics to further study the corporation and its