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Without Conscience - Psychopaths

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I have just read this fascinating book on psychopaths Without Conscience by Robert D Hare PHD . This book explains how psychopaths brains work differently from our. I do believe that the psychopathy checklist is a good thing to know as we do come accross these individuals from time to time


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SO whats the check list ?
I wonder if I fit in :think:
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The Psychopathic Checklist

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http://www.daniweb.com/community-center ... -checklist#

Here is the psychopathic checklist
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Well I fall short on that list unless I'm lying to myself :think: maybe I'm lying to myself.
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How Psychpaths Hide In Plain Sight

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 67795.html


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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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They have more a lack of social empathy, and use that to their advantage.
I have known a few psychos, they care, but not for your well being.
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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There's a link between psychopaths and chronic alcoholics.
http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/en_bigbo ... pinion.pdf

From page xxx:
The classification of alcoholism seems most difficult, and in much detail is outside the scope of this book. There are, of course, the psychopaths who are emotionally unstable. We are all familiar with this type. They are always "going on the wagon for keeps." They are over-remorseful and make many resolutions, but never a decision.
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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Pain meds dull your feelings also so anyone on them could end up a psychopath. http://www.foxrio2.com/ingredient-in-pa ... -emotions/
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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I know someone who was hooked on Clamazopan and she would go really psycho on that drug. It really enhanced her methadone apparently.
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I was on clonazepam for a while for my nerves, and hypertension, it didn't make me feel all that well mood wise.
I actually was more testy, and wanted to knock some heads off at work at the time. I actually felt like I had a chip on my shoulder wanting someone to try me.
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One of the mods on Memebee was once on a Ritalin-type medication that wasn't Ritalin, and it gave him an 'orgasm with no turgidity'. :toung:

http://memebee.com/vancouver/viewtopic. ... 5#p1086375
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I wondered for a long time what the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is. Now it is here ,easy to find for anybody to see in this article.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/heres ... 00795.html
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One is more confident in their self
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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The friend who loaned me the book Without Conscience told me many times that Obama is a psychopath. It has recently occurred to me that though Obama is always flashing his big fake beaming smile that he has practiced so often is he ever actually happy ? HE always has photo ops of him expressing extreme grief but does he actually feel anything at all ? Psychopaths according to this very interesting book states that psychopaths don't feel emotion. This also could explain how Obama can go out and say things without the slightest bit of shame. When islamic terrorists kill Americans all he can talk about lecturing Americans about islamophobia and at a police function after the Dallas shooting all he can talk about is police racial bias. His not scolding the perpetrators I do believe is telling the world that he condones these killings of Americans including those who keep Americans safe. I do h hope that he doesn't start world war three but I do think that this extreme disaster is in his plans before he is supposed to step down.
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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Though I am a fan of Donald Trump his huge ego has been caught my attention for some time already. I do believe that huge egos are mean and don't feel empathy.


Psychopath for President?

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The Psych Club at my college was hosting a colloquium on “The Psychology of Superheroes,” and they asked me if I’d join the panel discussion, posing as my favorite comic book character.

“I don’t know anything about superheroes,” I told them. And it’s true. I never read comic books as a kid, and I have no interest in the superhero action movies that Hollywood endlessly rolls out.

“Then what about a supervillain?” one of them asked.

“Yeah, you look just like Lex Luthor,” said another, pointing at my shiny pate.

Supervillain? Now that sounded tempting. And I’d just finished reading an article on “successful psychopaths” that I could reference in the discussion. So I said I’d do it.

According to Emory psychologist Scott Lilienfeld and his colleagues, a psychopath displays a paradoxical personality type. They’re charming, articulate, and fearless, yet at the same time they’re self-centered and they show no sense of empathy or remorse as they repeatedly violate the rights of others. The serial killer is perhaps the prototypical psychopath, and, to be sure, plenty of psychopaths end up behind bars serving long sentences. Lilienfeld and colleagues dub these “unsuccessful psychopaths.”

When psychopathy is mixed with a high degree of intelligence and a strong ability to delay gratification, the result is a ruthless, Machiavellian type whose path to power is paved with the dashed dreams and broken bodies of countless others. Yet “successful psychopaths” are too clever to ever get punished for their crimes. On the contrary, they often reach the highest echelons of business, government, military and law enforcement, even professional sports.

Banana republic dictators are certainly all successful psychopaths, because they live in lawless, unstructured societies where only the ruthless flourish. The wolves of Wall Street, who regularly push our financial system to the brink of collapse for their own personal gain, are undoubtedly successful psychopaths as well.

You might well think there’d be safeguards against psychopaths rising to power in a constitutional democracy such as ours, but you’d be mistaken. Lilienfeld and his coauthors report on a personality analysis of the first 42 presidents, which found that success in the White House was strongly correlated with the traits of the successful psychopath. These traits can also be found among current contenders for the presidency, especially those high in the polls.

Lilienfeld and his colleagues point out that the research on successful psychopathy is scant. In part this is because many in the field consider the concept an oxymoron. How can you be successful and pathological at the same time? Research instead has focused on the unsuccessful psychopath, in particular those convicted of heinous crimes. To a certain degree, this is due to a legitimate desire to better understand criminality and its causes. They’re also easy to find, since there are plenty to be studied in any given prison.

Studies of successful psychopathy typically recruit research participants through newspaper ads. One such notice advertised for people who were “charming, aggressive, carefree people who are impulsively irresponsible but are good at handling people and looking out for number one.” Apparently, successful psychopaths know who they are and don’t wish to hide their true identity, because plenty respond. Subsequent tests confirm high levels of traits associated with antisocial personality disorder but also of positive traits such as extraversion and conscientiousness.

For the superhero panel discussion, I thought Lex Luthor would be a good candidate for a diagnosis of successful psychopath, but I had to do some more research. (Really, all I knew about him was that he was Superman’s arch-nemesis and that he had a bald head.) I expected a brief Wikipedia stub, but what I found was a detailed and well written article on Lex Luthor that was even longer than the encyclopedia entry for our current president! (12994 words for Luthor, 11476 words for Obama. By comparison, presidential contender and Lex Luthor impersonator Donald Trump only gets 8850 words in Wikipedia—not so huge!)

References in the Wikipedia article included, among others, the DC Comics website, an online Encyclopedia of Superman, a Superman Homepage, and a comic book wiki. I felt as though I’d tumbled from my ivory tower into an alternate universe of comic book scholarship. Here’s just a snippet of the DC Comics website entry on Lex Luthor:

“A self-made man whose immeasurable intellect is always in conflict with his equally immeasurable ego, Lex Luthor is one of the world’s most brilliant minds and most famous villains. From a young age, Lex utilized his almost unparalleled acumen to build himself a financial empire through hard work and dedication—but mainly through the strategic use of intimidation, bribery and murder. Sacrificing other people became simply a means to an end on the path to success, but Luthor always made sure none of his deplorable acts could be traced back to him. Instead, his climb to power and rise in status made him someone to look up to, someone people wanted to emulate—and he relished in the adoration.”

This description fits the profile of the successful psychopath to a T.

I also learned that, in the DC Universe, Lex Luthor even made a successful bid for President of the United States. Which leads me back to the title of this blog post. Might we actually elect a psychopath for president? We may have done it before. But I do hope that this time we, as a nation, can see through the guile of this year’s bumper crop of presidential hopefuls and elect a person who has the best interests of the nation at heart.

Update: Just before posting this entry, I learned that the “Psychology of Superheroes” colloquium had been canceled. Superman was a no-show. He must have found out about my stash of kryptonite. Curses, foiled again!

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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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:think: If you make it big like he has a the ego has to be there, it's what you do with it that counts.
Trump a Psychopath, i doubt it, egomaniac maybe so.
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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I agree. Obama though the way he fakes his emotions in particuar happiness and anguish I suspect that he is.
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I do also, or he is a megalomaniac that wants to seize total power if he could.
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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Many believe that he has plans to do just that.
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Re: Without Conscience - Psychpaths

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I think he would be asking for a revolution, and death doing that, and he knows it.
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