 people tell me that I am not a dog person and I'm not a cat person I'm just a pig and to these vicious critics I have only one thing to say that is better to be a super intelligent seductively handsome pig than a sheep okay and today we're going to discuss a study yes the researcher thing a study of whether cats you know felines are psychopaths I've been suspecting this a long time now have you been exposed to cats and their claws and other parts of their anatomy I developed the conviction however speculative and ill-founded I must admit I developed the conviction that cats are psychopaths regrettably most cats I've met have met refused to take the gone standard of diagnosing psychopathy Robert Harris PCLR and in this sense cats are much more intelligent the humans because this test is rubbish in my view as I've expressed as I've analyzed in various videos so cats won't take the test because they won't take the test I wasn't able to diagnose a single one of them officially with anti-social personality disorder which is the clinical entity corresponding to mild psychopathy but academe to the rescue here comes a study of cats which establish beyond reasonable doubt that all cats are psychopaths but before we go to cats and psychopaths let's discuss a clinical entity a diagnosis which comprises both cats and psychopaths and that is borderline personality disorder I've been asked by as particularly vigilant viewer of my videos I've been asked do you know of research that deals with transitioning a personality disorder into borderline in order to make him or her react to dbt and schema therapy is the successful treatment for borderline personality disorder dependent on not having comorbidities these are actually two questions the first question is I keep saying that people transition between or cycle between or circulate between personality disorders but there's no such thing as different as different personality disorders that all personality disorders are one single clinical entity with different manifestations at different times throughout the lifespan so narcissists who for example experiences modification is likely to present as as someone with a borderline personality disorder so the viewer is asking intelligently whether in such a situation where the narcissist clinically becomes borderline will the narcissist be amenable to treatment as a borderline is because we know their dialectical behavior therapy schema therapy they're very effective with borderline personality disorder so why not the narcissist has lost his primary diagnosis for whatever reason and now he is open to intervention it's a window of opportunity and right you are dear viewer it is a window of opportunity I kept saying in my videos dedicated to modification that it's an opportunity for healing with appropriate intervention the narcissist can get in touch with his emotions several very beneficial dynamics can happen and he is likely to become a lot more human a lot less obnoxious abrasive antisocial and in your face exploitative and disembathic actually cold therapy is based on this insight what my new treatment modality cold therapy does it traumatizes the narcissists to the point that the narcissist decompensates loses his defenses and once he or she had lost the defenses this narcissist is open to attack open to therapeutic intervention so this is the essence of cold therapy retraumatize the patient in order to remove the defenses destroy the false self and open the patient up to help to help via a treatment modality as to the second question is a successful treatment for borderline personality disorder dependent on not having comorbidities nor it does not depend on this even people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and other disorders mood disorders anxiety disorders depressive illnesses or other personality disorders even such people can be treated successfully and are treated successfully with treatment modalities such as dbt and the reason is that the borderlines emotional dysregulation affect instability take over the manifestations and expressions and symptoms of the other disorders in other words whenever there is a comorbidity with borderline personality disorder the borderline side dominates while the other disorders are recessive so there's always a dominant disorder and recessive disorders there are there's a dominant self state and recessive submissive background self states and so treatment of someone with borderline regardless of comorbidities ought to be equally successful given all other things given okay let's talk about cats you've been waiting with baited breath looking at your cat suspiciously developing the secretary delusions paranoia staying away and distancing yourself from your feline companion does your cat ever give you the creeps does he enjoy staring contests with you does he have what is called frenetic random activity periods f rapes i repeat frenetic random activity periods they're also known as zoomies does your cat have late night zoomies does he ramble all over the apartment destroying things like carpets and other very precious commodities is he defiant is he conchumacious does he reject your authority contemptuously does he spit on you literally sometimes does he always scratch you even without any provocation does this little bundle of fur this little fur of happiness this little ball of fur this little fur baby whatever you want to call him does your cat randomly attacks you climbing on top a high shelf and jumping all over you to maximize impact and damage yes your cat definitely loves you or rather the food that you hand out to it so what do we professors of psychology have to say about your cat i mean having finished dissecting and and discombobulating and dissembling and analyzing everyone in the environment we are left with no human subjects so we are moving on we are developing the field of psychiatry and psychiatry and psychology to include cats dogs and giraffes yes giraffes in one of my next episodes it seems that most cat owners just accommodate themselves they just accept that the cat their pet doesn't really love them that their pet is indifferent and apathetic to them that he couldn't care less if they were to die tomorrow most cat owners a small minority of cat owners would deny this and they would say that cats are as loving as capable of attachment as loyal as dogs but that's a small minority and we have them now in treatment with medication because they are bloody wrong a recent study by researchers at the university of Liverpool what's happening in Liverpool Grandon is from Liverpool this study is from Liverpool something very odd is happening in Liverpool it has a university called John Morris can you believe this anyhow scholars in the University of John at the University of John John Morris made a study and their subjects were cats and the study claims that the activities I have mentioned before zooming jumping scratching clawing destroying property juvenile feline delinquency these activities may mean that you are living with a psychopath a psychopath clad in fur a purring psychopath you know the sound that's the most dangerous type of psychopath charm turned on to the maximum indifference tantalizing and provoking the kind of psychopath you just can't resist the kind of psychopath psychopath who sneaks into your bed at night and does unspeakable things to you and this team of united kingdom based researchers where else this team devised a survey it's a survey for cat owners they couldn't interview the cats have been told the cats were reluctant to collaborate then they didn't regard the scientists verbal skills to be sufficient so the scientists have been reduced to interviewing the cat owners in order to determine whether the cats might might actually have cat psychopathy so that would be antisocial cat personality disorder or antisocial cat disorder they interviewed 549 own unlucky owners of cats they asked them to complete a survey at first they measured what we call the triarchic traits triarchic traits these traits are common in psychopathy and they include boldness meanness and disinhibition we measure these traits in the lesser species humans in order to determine psychopathy but cats being a much more evolved form of life would require more so to start with they measured the triarchic traits but in the case of cats they added two factors human unfriendliness and pet unfriendliness all in all the survey was comprised of 46 questions and they named they christened the test the cat triarchic plus test or the cat tri plus test sounds very high cat uh sorry high tech high tech a high tech test for a high strong cat so 46 questions about your cat's behavior and these behaviors were very common among beloved felines does your cat mu excessively does he zoom in zoomies not using zoom software etc etc and then they published a study they asked owners of pets questions such as my cat vocalizes loudly muse yowls for no apparent reason my cat runs around the house for no apparent reason and my cat does not appear to act guilty after misbehaving to be honest i would i would heard i would shepherd all 404 549 respondents to the nearest mental asylum if they bothered to answer these kind of questions but they did they did luckily for science and luckily for us it's the greatest development after relativity theory which was well over a hundred years ago Freud would he would have been jealous he's turning in his grave how come he didn't think of interviewing cat owners it could have revolutionized psychology a hundred years ago the study settled on the conclusion that all cats are psychopathic to some degree most questions actually described average cat behavior and the study found that all cats have some level of psychopathy and the reason is simple evolution the journal of research in personality says in an ancestral environment that demanded self-sufficiency wild cats that had higher levels of psychopathic traits may have been more successful in acquiring resources such as food territory and mating opportunities and if you think that this is a fair description of donald trump you are right you are right for babies it is so cats come exactly like donald trump from a long line of psychopaths the cats we have as pets today come from a very long lineage and pedigree of felines with psychopathic traits it was the only way to survive in the jungle and because our civilization resembles a jungle more and more it's not surprising there is an exponential proliferation in cat ownership around the world cats have priorities not unlike certain politicians so the cat might be a psychopath but he doesn't want to eat you he wants to eat what you have to offer yes he doesn't want to eat you it may come as a surprise we're shocked to you and it may fly in the face of all the evidence that you have accumulated over decades of relationships with cats but it's been established once and for all the cat has no culinary aspirations or dreams or wishes or fantasies when it comes to its owner the fairy friend you have aka cat cares only about running the house eating your food and being a desirable mate this one of the researchers was aptly named rebecca rebecca evans and she had developed the study she spoke to motherboard motherboard is a publication by vise uh run by vise and they asked her why did you choose to study the unusual subject of cat psychopathology and she answered our cats and the differences in their personalities inspired us to start this research indeed cats are capable of transmitting viruses which affect the brain now i have no doubt of this evans continued personally i'm also interested in how owner perceptions of psychopathy in their cat can affect the cat owner relationship my cat gumbo scores relatively highly on the disinhibition scale which means it can be quite vocal proximity seeking and excitable sounds like a leaf out of the dating scene anyhow motherboard the publication by vise also spoke to another author of the study probably because they were shocked by dame evans the other author was even more aptly named minna minna liles she said that after studying psychopathy in humans rodents and primates the authors who all love cats i wonder what it says about the authors loving psychopaths okay the authors who all love cats she said decided to join our forces it sounds like the invasion of britain decided to join our forces and see if psychopathy is something that is relevant in our feline friends too so here's the takeaway bold cats may well be psychopaths lion said that her cat axel who partook in the study shows some signs of being a feline psychopath probably to her dismay i'm not sure because she doesn't say what she does say is this axel is totally bold bold like daring yep and known to go into neighbors houses cars and garages to search for food i know many homeless who do this and they are not cats last time i checked so the conclusion is that more research is needed and presumably more funding it should be stated that they the authors conclude it should be stated that more research is needed to really prove that cats are psychopaths the questions asked in the study are pretty generic such as my cat demands attention or my cat disobeys rules or behaviors that are pretty standard for the species so we need to study behaviors which are non-standard presumably cats who read books or watch netflix or have an instagram account these would be truly psychopathic cats dogs and people don't forget may also be considered psychopaths using the very same standards of the study if we were to apply the same questions to our pet dogs or even to ourselves by the study's own standards we may all be psychopaths haven't i been saying this like forever we are all becoming narcissists and psychopaths it's my world babies it's my world for babies it's my world welcome to it 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