Psychopathy
Factor1: "Aggressive narcissism"
* Glibness/superficial charm
* Grandiose sense of self-worth
* Pathological lying
* Cunning/manipulative
* Lack of remorse or guilt
* Shallow affect
* Callous/lack of empathy...
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Psychopathy
Factor1: "Aggressive narcissism" * Glibness/superficial charm * Grandiose sense of self-worth * Pathological lying * Cunning/manipulative * Lack of remorse or guilt * Shallow affect * Callous/lack of empathy * Failure to accept responsibility for own actions * Promiscuous sexual behavior
Factor2: "Socially deviant lifestyle" * Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom * Parasitic lifestyle * Poor behavioral control * Lack of realistic, long-term goals * Impulsivity * Irresponsibility * Juvenile delinquency * Early behavior problems * Many short-term marital relationships * Revocation of conditional release
Traits not correlated with either factor * Many short-term marital relationships * Criminal versatility ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sociopathy
* Persistent lying or stealing * Recurring difficulties with the law * Tendency to violate the rights and boundaries of others (property, physical, sexual, emotional, legal) * Substance abuse * Aggressive, often violent behavior; prone to getting involved in fights * A persistent agitated or depressed feeling (dysphoria) * Inability to tolerate boredom * Disregard for the safety of self or others * A childhood diagnosis of conduct disorders - this is not a symptom but "a history of" * Lack of remorse, related to hurting others * Superficial charm * Impulsiveness * A sense of extreme entitlement * Inability to make or keep friends * Recklessness, impulsivity * People with a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder often experience difficulties with authority figures.
The one adjective I hear repeatedly connected to pathology is the word 'evil.' Spiritual, unspiritual, heathens, pagans, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, etc. -- it doesn't matter. The word 'evil' is the chosen adjective-of-choice to describe pathology. But what IS evil? Is it more psychological than it is spiritual? Or is it a spiritual issue that has been picked up and defined psychologically? Are they the same thing? I am not going to translate the lists for you below. They are self explanatory. I have taken the italicized items from both Old Testament (Torah -- of the Jewish faith) and New Testament (of the Christian faith) ...
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You lay you bets and then you pay the price; it's a losing proposition but one you can't refuse path⋅o⋅log⋅i⋅cal [path-uh-loj-i-kuhl] –adjective 1. of or pertaining to pathology. 2. caused by or involving disease; morbid. 3. caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition: a pathological liar. 4. dealing with diseases: a pathological casebook. Man is a political animal, not a rational one. Sexual Hypertension? By now most of the world is aware that Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together and loving it up, James Bond style, in one of P Diddy's many luxurious mansions. That only leaves the questions " What the ...
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No wonder so many psychological theories talk about the importance of 'letting go' -- because the opposite of it -- 'holding on' becomes an insane form of reasoning. Somewhere in the midst of the pathological love relation ship, your intensity of attachment/ obsession with him begins to feel like a drug. The more he lies/ cheats/ hides what he's doing, the tighter the grip becomes on wanting him/seeking him out/obsessing about him. While you tell yourself you 'should' let go, you hold tighter... you hire a P.I. , you break into his computer, you peruse his cell phone, you follow him or do a ...
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Two weeks ago we started talking about this natural ability that pathologicals have when it comes to reading human behavior. ( ** I didn't write a newsletter last week! Did any single person on the whole planet even notice?? Super busy but more on that later... ) Last newsletter we talked about how the child's emotional developmental deficits actually spur them towards compensation in these areas by trying to hide their lack of a full emotional spectrum, lack of insight, and lack of ability to sustain emotional and behavioral changes. They learn to compensate by studying human behavior and 'mimicking and parroting' when they ...
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Personality disorders are those permanent disorders that mar a soul. They impair a person's inability to grow to any emotional or spiritual depth, to change and sustain change, and to develop insight about how their behavior effects others. This is the path of pathology -- when disorders so effect a personality that it leaves them impaired so that it permanently disengages their character switch. Personality disorders are often referred to as Character Disorders. No wonder! The problems associated with personality disorders largely manifest as inappropriate behavior associated as negative character reflection. We now know some of this inappropriate behavior is associated with poor impulse ...
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Dr. Maria Hsia Chang, ProfessorPolitical Science, University of NevadaIn psychology, personality disorders refer to individual traits that reflect ingrained, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of behavior that cause discomfort and impair a person’s ability to function--including her relations with friends and family. At least ten distinct personality disorders have been identified, one of which is the narcissistic personality disorder (NPD...
Radical revisioning of 'Romeo and Juliet' by Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, the founder of Pathological Theater, will take stage at La MaMa December 3 to 13. It will make the full theatrical experience momentary.
We have carried out a systematic review of the case files of 242 donors with pathologically verified Parkinson's disease at the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders in an attempt to corroborate the data-driven subtype classification proposed by Lewis and colleagues (Heterogeneity of Parkinson's disease in the early clinical stages using a data driven approach. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2005; 76: 343–8). Cases were segregated...
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Transthoracic echocardiography left ventricular wall thickness is often increased in master athletes and it results by intense physical training. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy can also be due to a constant pressure overload. Conventional Pulsed Wave (PW) Doppler analysis of diastolic function sometimes fails to distinguish physiological from pathological LVH.The aim of this study is to evaluate the role of Pulsed Wave Tissue...
Ryan Sager (via Sully) highlights a fact that has long fascinated me:
With the exception of 2001 and 2002 (9/11 effect?), between 52% and 89% of Americans every year since 1990 have thought that crime is on the rise. That’s a pretty remarkable statistic, given that crime declined steadily nationally throughout the 1990s and has remained [...]
Business secretary delivers withering response to Tory leader's conference speechSometimes the important speeches are the ones that don't really make the news. Lord Mandelson delivered one at the Said Business School in Oxford today. It doesn't seem to have been picked up anywhere yet, and that's not surprising because it doesn't contain anything particularly new or original. But it deserves to get noticed, because it is the clearest and most...
How does one deal with a pathological liar? It's an icky trait that I've come face to face with in the past year with not one but TWO people who just make up the craziest nonsense.
At the school where I work, I have a 14 year old student who makes up attention-getting, blatantly untrue lies (dead relatives, student was recently arrested, student has steel plate in body, needs open heart surgery, etc.). I kind of get this...looking for...
Since I have reinvigorated this site to use it as a teaching example to educate others about Pathology, I’d be remiss to not use this comment (CLICK HERE) recieved on this blog to talk more about the blame pathologicals use on their victims to silence, embarrass and discredit them.
I don’t care if people don’t believe [...]
More than 100 rapists have been let off with a police caution, it was revealed yesterday. The 111 cases included 66 incidents of child rape.
The extent to which police forces have handed cautions to rapists, whose crime carries a maximum sentence of life in jail, was made public as Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced a full-scale review of the system of punishing crime with cautions and on-the-spot fines.
Mr Straw acted after a weekend...