Psychopathy

There is also a strong possibility that psychopathy is related to genetics, being passed from parent to child. A strong connection between childhood trauma to the frontal lobes or the region that allows human emotion and abuse exists between psychopaths as well. Psychopathic brains have a reduction of gray matter, fewer neurons, and increased white matter in the frontal lobes which causes more connections between the neurons- cells that transmit nerve impulses; it also is consistent with a…

professionals often assume psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder are identical, and interchangeably utilize the two terms. Upon further investigation and research, both have been proven to be in fact different, and entail different elements. Psychopathy is a bundle of socially deviant behaviors and personality traits; antisocial personality disorder, on the other hand, is composed of both criminal and antisocial behavior. According to Hare’s article, Psychopathy and Antisocial…

Although psychopathy is often believed to be only a term used for criminals, research has found that that is in fact not the case. According to Lipman, one percent of the population of the human race is estimated to be clinically psychopathy (2013). This is roughly seventy million people worldwide and around the world, and there are roughly nine million people incarcerated. However, it is believed that only twenty-five percent of incarcerated criminals are truly psychopathy. This leaves a rough…

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) The first psychological disorder to be recognized in the field of psychology was psychopathy, which sometimes is known as sociopathy. Psychopathy is a personality disorder, which refers to individuals who display tendencies of antisocial behavior and traits. Some of the behaviors associated with Psychopathy are grandiosity, egocentricity, deceptiveness, shallow emotions, lack empathy, irresponsibility and impulsivity. They also have the tendency to…

I have been curious as to what psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder is, as are other people. We often associate psychopaths to crazy, killers, or our exes. I have done that a time or five myself. Now, bear with me here because a lot is still left to discover about psychopaths and antisocial personality disorder. Some common questions I have asked myself (and researched) and others may have wondered are the ones not completely answered yet. What is antisocial personality disorder?…

Although some people are certain that psychopathy is a disorder that can be treated with drugs that alter brain functioning, it seems very unlikely that treatment will work. Psychopathy involves a wide variety of symptoms with seemingly little in common other than their moral and social unreliability. Some would argue that psychopathy is untreatable because it is not a disorder, rather it is an evolved strategy. This means that psychopathy might have been adaptive in an ancestral environment or…

Effects of Parenting on Psychopathy in Children Psychopathy is a personality disorder more often generalized to antisocial personality disorder (APD). APD is characterized by lessened empathy for others, weak or nonexistent sense of wrongdoing, impulsive behavior, and lying to or manipulating others (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Although psychopathy, sociopathy, and APD are often used interchangeably, they stands as separate, if similar, diagnoses. The aggressive and antisocial…

explain criminal behavior. One theory, psychopathy, combines factors such genes and environment to explain deviant behavior. Psychopathy is used to explain some, but not all criminal behavior and has been widely accepted and researched by the criminal justice, psychology, and other science fields. Psychopathy and crime are closely linked to each other and can be explained by many different factors based on genetics and psychosocial approaches, and although psychopathy does not set in stone a…

Psychopathy has been defined a mental disorder that individuals suffer from that causes that individual to exhibit amoral and antisocial behavior. A person that suffers from this disorder, lacks the ability to love or even establish personal relationships with others. They face extreme egocentricity and fails to learn from past experiences in his or her life. Researchers have found that there are two different categories for psychopathy. The first category of psychopathy deals with emotional…

Definition Psychopathy is a severe mental illness or disorder, in which is characterized by some, not necessarily all, of the following features: manipulative, shallow emotions and poor impulsivity. Manipulative is when an individual is characterized by unscrupulous control of a situation or another individual. Shallow emotions lack of valuing qualities in a person that is hidden but can be perceived. Poor impulsivity when having no self-control over emotions or behavior. Causes There’s no…