Avoidant personality disorder

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” -Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs This is one of the most iconic quotes spoken by Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is a fictional character best known for his cannibalistic and psychopathic tendencies paired with his extreme charm and persuasiveness. While Lecter is the most infamous fictional psychopath, he is not the only one. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago, the psychopath, devises a plan to promote himself to general. He does this by…

Suppose you were told 40 percent of our American soldiers were rejected for having antisocial personality disorder in the early 1940’s. Only to be discovered the military mostly recruited anyone with any type of medical disorder from psychopathic traits, antisocial personality disorder to mental illness. Why recruit someone with who is a psychopath or sociopath? But despite of the beneficial attribution towards the military, sociopaths require non- stop devoted disciplinary enforcement spending…

Montresor to act as harshly as he did, but the reason may lie in the psychological dysfunctions imposed on his character. Montresor’s narcissistic, antisocial, and psychopathic ways led him to commit an act of murder upon Fortunato. A Narcissistic Personality Disorder is reflected through the character of Montresor. Those with this condition find themselves requiring an excessive amount of admiration, exploiting others in ways that takes advantage of them, and lacking empathy towards others by…

Jonason et al., 2012), however they also seek to obtain an admiration and approval from others at the same time (Jones, & Paulhus, 2011). A common scale used to measure the level of narcissistic traits that an individual possesses is the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI; McDonald et al., 2011; Mededovic, & Petrovic, 2015; Paulhus et al., 2001; Paulhus, & Williams, 2002). The NPI is a 40 item forced choice questionnaire (Paulhus et al., 2001), meaning the individual in question has to…

Borderline Personality Disorder in the Media Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is portrayed throughout the media with the stigma that all people that possess this disease are suffering as an impulsive monster. The media often attacks the idea of any mental illnesses and portrays it to their viewers/readers as the affected person being “psycho” or “crazy”. However, contrary to common thought, the representation of this illness throughout the media is incorrect (Hollywood). The fact that 14…

Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective Aetiology of depression is multifactorial, with risk factors including low levels of parental warmth, high levels of family hostility, abuse and poverty (Gledhill & Hodes, 2010). Environment, cognitive and behavior are significant factors that cause the onset and duration of depression (Carvalho, Trent, & Hopko, 2011). Depression can affect all aspects of life, and may even lead to more serious problems including suicide. Although there is still a…

attention of parents and the impact of their actions on their children’s’ development. Moreover, the author in his messages shows the negative impact of particular aspects such as overvalued praise on a child’s development. Also, Character and personality judgment is an issue that is especially challenging to address. It is critical to identify facts that lead to a conclusion or judgment of a person’s character. The author draws attention to factors that contribute to the development of…

Narcissism, a trait some find unbearable, but a trait many people possess. To an extent, being narcissistic doesn’t sound all that awful. By definition, it is a noun, meaning inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self love; vanity. In this definition, narcissism can only be applied to one person. One person can be narcissistic, a whole group of people can be, but what about a whole culture? A country? An entire race? According to Greek mythology, the word “narcissist”, came from the…

‘Selfies’ have become a larger part of social media in society in recent years, mainly with the millennial generation. Named as the Oxford Dictionary’s first of the year in 2013, a selfie is described as being photo an individual takes oneself and is done using the camera on a smartphone or another digital device (Oxford Dictionary), today many selfies are taken by individuals are then uploaded to social media sites such as Facebook, and Instagram. Concern has been raised whether taking a large…

well. Men do their killing differently from each other but compared to women they do it totally differently. Some serial killers have the personality of a psychopath which can be very difficult to wrap your head around. This personality trait I believe is more dangerous because they have no guilt, the choose their own morals, and they have a different personality overall. Gary Leon Ridgway is a male at the age of 68 who is called the Green River Killer because…