Some People Deserved to be Killed Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe introduce us two characters that are so trapped by their own overarching hypocrisy, that they are convinced only they are the best, highest class and most worthy people in the world, all of which invites rather grisly fates, which drag them too soon to the tomb at the hands of people offended by the stench of their superiority. In this case, Montresor…
Jeffery Dahmer terrorized the city of Milwaukee, WI for many years during the late nineteen eighties and early part of the nineties. His murders were among some of the most perverse and brutal nature of their kind. A question looms as to what could have caused Jeffery Dahmer to commit such unspeakable crimes as he had, and that spanned over more than a decade. Is genetics responsible or partly at least, or was it caused by a dysfunctional family environment that traumatized a young Jeffery…
Nietzsche’s Noble Man has an Antisocial Personality Disorder Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of a noble man is one with an antisocial personality disorder. What is nobility to Nietzsche? To him, goodness is created only by the noble person, the people of the noble man benefit the noble man, and the people of the noble man are to the noble one as a slave was to their master. Nietzsche describes a noble person as being psychopathic, however as new generations arise new disorders are discovered…
The origin of a sociopath’s destructive path begins with a child with conduct disorder. To comprehend the reasoning behind the actions of a sociopath, one must understand what a sociopath is. Though a person can become a sociopath through heredity, it is possible to become one through a number of different environmental factors. There are several different environmental factors that could affect a child’s psychological state of mind including t. The setting where the child is living, or perhaps…
forging a new path that focuses on a child’s affective and interpersonal style, grouping together children presenting with both conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits (CP+CU), which may yield a developmental extension to the construct of psychopathy, and allow targeting of antisocial-behaviours early in life (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). These children, to meet diagnostic-criteria for conduct disorder (CD) with the Limited Prosocial Emotions Specifier under DSM-5 criteria must…
The Silence of the Lambs is a film that deals heavily with mental illness and diagnosis. A large portion of its cast are made up of fictional psychiatrists and behavior analysts. The setting for a abundance of the plot takes place at the Baltimore State Mental hospital for the Criminally Insane. The main protagonist Clarice Starling uses psychology and behavior analysts to track down a serial killer. Nevertheless, so much use of mental illness does not necessarily mean it gets it right. It does…
identify that he experiences a Cluster B personality disorder, more specifically antisocial personality disorder. ASPD is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation for the rights of others. This disorder is also been known as sociopathy, psychopathy, and dissocial personality disorder. The first symptom Lecter goes through is failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest (Biedel, Bulik, &…
Antisocial Personality Disorder In this paper I am going to go over the symptoms one can have when diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, as well as the causes and risk factors of this particular disorder. I will also briefly talk about possible Interventions and issues that can arise in intervention. The few things that counselors should know about the individuals who are diagnosed with APD and what to watch out for when it comes to dealing with patients with APD. The many symptoms…
Narcissistic sociopathy is a mental disease where a person lacks empathy for others, while also viewing them self as superior in every way. These traits, separately, are becoming more commonly recognized in our society today, but together are a very rare occurrence. The antagonist of Richard Connell’s story The Most Dangerous Game, is a narcissistic sociopath. Zaroff is a textbook definition of a narcissistic sociopath. Connell divulges the theme of fear, and competition throughout the story…
Proven Guilty Tamora Pierce, a young adult author, once said, “It’s harder to heal than it is to kill” (Pierce). Sarah Koenig, the producer of “Serial,” has informed listeners that on January 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, a student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, was strangled to death. She broke up with her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed, then almost immediately started dating a new guy named Don. The ex-boyfriend would be pretty jealous, right? Adnan Syed is guilty of the murder of Hae Min…