Office Hours: Psychopathy

Guest: Joseph Newman, professor, Department of Psychology.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Psychology
• psychopaths

[colecionar]

@stormin300 Understanding the feelings of others is important to manipulate them. So empathy is a good tool. The lack of empathy is only an advantage if you are able to understand others' intentions or feelings through observation and rationality, and be able to mimic normal human behavior. Basically a psychopath needs to be very intelligent and an excellent actor, otherwise he will end up in prison.

[jmaytum]

What University was this again?

[stormin300]

The lack of guilt, empathy the inability to concider or even care about the feelings of others are the perfect atributes to suceed in the corporate world. The capitalist world is dog eat dog.

[RickyCisco]

Psychopaths could also be key to scientific breakthroughs and other types of thinking that can only be achieved through pure emotional clarity.

[johnnydarkly]

The solution is indefinite detention of psychopaths, even those who have not been convicted or even charged with a crime. Sterilization should also be considered. I am not being facetious. Psychopaths are the scourge of the planet and the source of crime and misery everywhere. In England and Wales, they have the Mental Health Act of 1983 that allows for detention of diagnosed psychopaths, albeit those who have been convicted of violent crimes. Perhaps the US could benefit from similar laws.

[TheViolet76]

@kasualdec It is definitely a disorder. I was married to somebody who has it. Seriously hellish experience. I got out when he turned violent, tried to suffocate me and threatened to kill me. Just cause I cought him on some of his lies and horrible behavior and told his family. He of course denied everything to his family (about suffocating me, cheating, lying etc.,) and told them that I made that up and I am psychologically unstable! Those people are monsters! BTW his mother is like that.

[rochelle1088]

I live in Las Vegas, so maybe I'm dealing with an environment where the % is several times the rate in most other areas.

I'm thinking about leaving...getting "leaving las vegas" syndrome.

[Ebvardh]

I've always battled my own psychopathic thoughts and behaviors.

It's tough. Most people don't get how easy it is for that side of your personality to override your actions, and how chaotic and dissociated the experience is.

People always misinterpret how it is and feels to think that way, because they haven't felt it.

Like explaining to someone what it's like to use a certain drug, when they've never done drugs in their life.

They might get an idea, but the experience will be alien.

[Ebvardh]

Sometimes, they've learned to ignore the emotions. I know that, personally, I've become particularly reckless in my day to day because I'm getting used to not caring about stuff.

If I see a situation that looks threatening, I charge right at it, as if it defied me.

I've always felt that it's particularly worrying that the choice to feel remorse is something that I have. I've been told that it's something that in most people happens by default, but I've always had to consciously choose it.

[kasualdec]

@AskariWaryaa You spelled one of those words up there wrong...I'm going to let you figure out which one..but to reply to your comment....show me one person without a debilitating mental or physical illness....also you may be right but you did not give me enough evidence....you just said they don't have the mental capacity to understand what you wrote...but maybe you meant they don't have the emotional capacity to understand it...what negative outcome can there be when you are truly amoral?