The Psychopath Next Door
When picturing a psychopath, we often think of a crazy deranged person holding a chainsaw and massacres an entire town. The reality of the truth is a lot more terrifying than the image that Hollywood fills our conscious up with. The truth about psychopath’s are that they look just like everyone else, therefore could be anyone. There are a lot of characteristics in a psychopath. Dr. Robert Hare created a checklist to determine certain traits in a psychopath. One underlying characteristic in all psychopaths is severe emotional detachment. This is harder to detect than the characteristics listed in Hare’s checklist. Early behavioral problems and impulsivity relate to sever emotional detachment in several ways. For early behavioral problems, it creates a path of destruction that leads to adulthood. They begin to lie, steal, cheat, begin experimenting with drugs and sexual activities, bully, etc. The result of these actions are done without care of the way it makes the victims feel or what the consequences are. Impulsivity means the acts are …show more content…
This brings into question if we should screen young children for characteristics of psychopathy. I believe if we screen children it’s not really going to matter because you can’t change who they are or who they will turn out to be. Not all psychopaths turn out to be dangerous in a physical way. Causing a stressful environment can actually carve a path for a child with psychopathic traits into a dangerous killer. Understanding these traits are a way for us to determine how a psychopath thinks. Society has a fascination with the dark side of human nature and this leads to the horror films we see in theaters. Now that we know that a psychopath can blend into society without detection, are we still embedded with the horror film versions of a psychopath, that we disregard the actual traits that label us, a
When picturing a psychopath, we often think of a crazy deranged person holding a chainsaw and massacres an entire town. The reality of the truth is a lot more terrifying than the image that Hollywood fills our conscious up with. The truth about psychopath’s are that they look just like everyone else, therefore could be anyone. There are a lot of characteristics in a psychopath. Dr. Robert Hare created a checklist to determine certain traits in a psychopath. One underlying characteristic in all psychopaths is severe emotional detachment. This is harder to detect than the characteristics listed in Hare’s checklist. Early behavioral problems and impulsivity relate to sever emotional detachment in several ways. For early behavioral problems, it creates a path of destruction that leads to adulthood. They begin to lie, steal, cheat, begin experimenting with drugs and sexual activities, bully, etc. The result of these actions are done without care of the way it makes the victims feel or what the consequences are. Impulsivity means the acts are …show more content…
This brings into question if we should screen young children for characteristics of psychopathy. I believe if we screen children it’s not really going to matter because you can’t change who they are or who they will turn out to be. Not all psychopaths turn out to be dangerous in a physical way. Causing a stressful environment can actually carve a path for a child with psychopathic traits into a dangerous killer. Understanding these traits are a way for us to determine how a psychopath thinks. Society has a fascination with the dark side of human nature and this leads to the horror films we see in theaters. Now that we know that a psychopath can blend into society without detection, are we still embedded with the horror film versions of a psychopath, that we disregard the actual traits that label us, a