Psychopathy

from any other disease. When reading this paper, keep in mind that we cannot judge these people with mental illnesses, but rather further understand who they are or why they do what they do. Psychosis and Psychopathy Many don’t understand the big differences between psychosis and psychopathy. The root word, “psych” or “psycho” is from the Greek word for mind or…

To be classified as serial killer there has to be three important considerations. “Other suggestions are that there must be a motivation, that this motivation tends to be sexual, that the killer will fantasize about the murder and finally, that the killing is premeditated. To eliminate other types of killings like terrorism or assassinations, the murder itself must be the primary motivator. Once serial murder is adequately defined, a deeper look can be taken into the life of the murderer”…

In “Distortions of mind perception in psychopathology,” Gray, Jenkins, Heberlein and Wegner investigated the effects of psychopathology on social perception. Rather than compartmentalizing different disorders, as is often done when studying psychopathological conditions, this study wanted to consider these disorders differently, but not independently. Therefore, the researchers decided that a 2-dimensional model of mind perception was an effective way to compare and contrast the effect of these…

What does the common psychopath look to you? Scream? Jason? or even Freddy Krueger? What if someone told you that a psychopath could be sitting next to you in the class room or could even be your best friend. A real psychopath looks like an everyday normal person but they’re really not. It could even be you and you might even not know it. Parts of their brain are underdeveloped and work differently to where they can’t feel or even act like a normal person. You can even be born a psychopath or…

whether or not Montresor is insane or not. Before asking why this is debated people often times think of Montresor as a psychopath but that begs the question what is a psychopath? A psychopath is someone who simply cannot feel emotions. The cause of psychopathy is related to a psychological defect that results in underdevelopment of the part of the brain responsible for impulse control and emotions. Since psychopaths do not feel emotions they often learn it from other people. They mimic emotions…

the term sociopathy in the 1930’s. There were many professionals that encouraged the use of the term sociopathy over psychopathy because it created the notion that the disorder was caused by the environment. (criminal psychopath) Later, in 1980, the third version of the DSM introduced a broader diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. In contrast, today we use the term psychopathy because it is seen as a disorder that is genetic or a developmental cause. There are still similarities between…

On top of being able to recognize a psychopath, you should know if the offender you are dealing with is sadistic in nature. Sadism, in a sense is legal when it is shared between two consenting adults. It is when there is not the mutual consent that we have a problem. A sadistic killer is someone who gets arousal/ pleasure through the intentional infliction of pain and suffering on someone else (they do the inflicting). The sadistic killer is by cruel, aggressive, and manipulative and they often…

This is hypothesis is expounded upon by Robert Hare Ph.D. who developed the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. This checklist noted indicators and the fact that there were two components, emotional and behavioral, which aid in the detection of a psychopath. Traits which were present in all of the aforementioned individuals, "...glibness, emotional detachment, egocentricity,..antisocial lifestyle..." mark their psychopathy. The presence of these indicators in Gein, Bundy and Nugent also denote their…

behavioral psychologist and researchers place the determinants of criminal personality in groups; psychosocial, cognitive, personality development, and environmental. There were much confusion in the past diagnosing this antisocial personality disorder/ psychopathy stemming from period of the DSM-I, 1952 to the DSM-5 today. In studies done by multiple researchers have verified the traits of the psychosocial variables that contributes to the development of the criminal personality type that…

the reading suggested that a psychopath can be anyone such as an average worker. Seeing how psychopaths can camouflage themselves in a group of a normal people, I can fathom how they can be undetected in a company environment. The reading defines psychopathy as “a personality disorder rooted in lying, manipulation, deceit, egocentricity, callousness, and other potentially destructive traits.” I never viewed someone being psychopathic as having a personality disorder. I believed it was due to an…