Psychopathy

When someone is very angry they either go for a walk, isolate themselves from others, or vent to someone about their problems. They would not go terrorizing the public harming innocent people. Someone having a problem is called antisocial personality disorder which sometimes can be describe as sociopathy. According to Landfield, “Antisocial personality disorder is a condition that describes a constellation of interpersonal, emotional, and behavioral functioning marked by deceit, lack of guilt…

As he wrote in his 1944 paper, the four children in his study had what he called “autistic psychopathy”, which means autism (self) psychopathy (personality disease), later termed autistic personality. Coates noted that these children were said to have had a “lack of empathy, little ability to form friends, one-sided conversations, clumsy movements and intense absorption…

For a few years all researches have been agreed that the behavior and the human mind, in normal and pathological conditions, are directly related to the function of nervous system. Also psychiatric disorders of affective or cognitive origin are interpreted as the consequence of a particular pathology of the nervous system. Therefore, neuroscience involves all the different branches of psychology that have the suffix “psych”, as for example psychology, psychiatry, psychopathology. All these…

ASSESSMENT OF NEEDS MASLOW Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) born into a family of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States. “He was the eldest child of seven children, and described in his youth as “an extraordinarily shy neurotic young man, depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely and self-rejecting. (Frager, 1987) An earlier student of theorist Harry Harlow infamous for his perhaps somewhat controversial studies of attachment issues on infant monkeys. His article, A Theory of Human Motivation…

Libertucci 1 According to the FBI, “serial murder can be defined as a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crime was committed by the same actor or actors” (Federal Bureau of Investigation). Killers such as Henry Howard Holmes often display similar traits that can also identify them as serial assassins. These people are often master manipulators who…

August 26, 2016, from https://library.childwelfare.gov/cwig/ws/library/docs/gateway/Record?rpp=10&upp=0&m=1&w= NATIVE( 'recno=67243 ')&r=1 Harold Schechter (2010). Deviant. Simon & Schuster. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-4391-0697-6 Hare R. D. (1991). The Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised. Toronto, ON: Multi-Health Systems (n.d.). Retrieved August 24, 2016, from http://www.ct.gov/dcf/cwp/view.asp?a=2556&Q=314388 An Abused or Neglected Child/Teen. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2016, from…

Piper 1 Piper 6 Piper 3 The Causes of Criminal Behavior Sometimes when I was a kid, my mom would watch ?Criminal Minds? when I was in the room. Of course, my young mind did not quite understand what was going on but it still fascinated me. It fascinated me because in the show, they focused on the criminal instead of the crime itself. Years later, my mother gave me a book detailing the Jack the Ripper case and I was hooked immediately. Within the book, they proposed ideas of what might…

What is the difference between an angel and a demon? They began in the same place, and are powerful in doing what they want. Both are persuasive and influential in their dealings with others. The difference is their goals and their motives; angels protect kindness and order and demons advocate chaos and cruelty. Many times in literature, characters will represent the idea of angels versus demons. One such case is The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In this book, Simon represents all things…

Elements of deviant and abnormal behavior associated with white-collar crime Deviant behavior is defined as any human activity that violates social norms. Social norms are the basic framework that help to keep our society organized and functioning. People that don’t or can’t abide by those norms are present in every aspect of humanity. Normally people will identify these outsiders and keep their distance. Mostly these individuals end up on the fringes of our civilized world, though there are…

Analysis ” Antisocial personality disorder is a psychosocial theory that is often referred to as psychopathy…Those that live with Antisocial Personality Disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be heartless, sarcastic, and condescending towards the feelings, rights, and sufferings of others. They may have an exaggerated and egotistical self-appraisal and may be excessively narrow-minded, self-confident, or boastful. A personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and…