Posted on 06/13/2009 2:00:58 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
(The following commentary includes material obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.)
Psychopathy is a personality disorder manifested in people who use a mixture of charm, manipulation, intimidation, and occasionally violence to control others, in order to satisfy their own selfish needs. Although the concept of psychopathy has been known for centuries, the FBI leads the world in the research effort to develop a series of assessment tools, to evaluate the personality traits and behaviors attributable to psychopaths. Interpersonal traits include glibness, superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, and the manipulation of others. The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility.
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This urge to control others is something we need to look for a cure for.
So they could be laughing at the funeral of a friend - spot a camera - and "fake" a real tear? Hmmmm, anyone?
Great post, K
Does Pelosi meet the definitions? How about Reid? Geithner? Barny Frank? Rahm Emanuel? It is almost like being a psychopath a job requirement for all top positions in the White House and Democrats in Congress?
Congressman Billybob
Figures. Maybe we should have our politicians take the test.
Stop repeat crimal offenders - Don’t re-elect them.
Stop repeat criminal offenders - Don’t reelect them.
The media must be psychopath groupies, now there is a psychological puzzle to explain.
VOTE THEM ALL OUT 2010 and 2012. They’re TOAST or should be after destroying our country, don’t ya think?
Ted Bundy was, often, both. Unfortunately, he was a registered Republican.
They are Repaet Offenders.
We have the cure. It's call the Second Amendment.
Most people are just too afraid to use it.
Here we get into the discussion of nature vs nurture, or rifle vs shotgun.
Ping for later.
"There's still a lot of opposition -- some criminologists, sociologists, and psychologists don't like psychopathy at all," Hare says. "I can spend the entire day going through the literature -- it's overwhelming, and unless you're semi-brain-dead you're stunned by it -- but a lot of people come out of there and say, 'So what? Psychopathy is a mythological construct.' They have political and social agendas: 'People are inherently good,' they say. 'Just give them a hug, a puppy dog, and a musical instrument and they're all going to be okay.' "
If Hare sounds a little bitter, it's because a decade ago, Correctional Service of Canada asked him to design a treatment program for psychopaths, but just after he submitted the plan in 1992, there were personnel changes at the top of CSC. The new team had a different agenda, which Hare summarizes as, "We don't believe in the badness of people." His plan sank without a trace.
By the late 1970s, after fifteen years in the business, Bob Hare knew what he was looking for when it came to psychopaths. They exhibit a cluster of distinctive personality traits, the most significant of which is an utter lack of conscience. They also have huge egos, short tempers, and an appetite for excitement -- a dangerous mix. In a typical prison population, about 20 percent of the inmates satisfy the Hare definition of a psychopath, but they are responsible for over half of all violent crime.
Psychopaths thrive on thin relationships because it makes their act most effective if people aren’t verifying what they say against what they do to uncover the lies. They also seek power. Because of this, they wind up in politics, government, law, business, teaching, and any profession where they have authority over others.
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