Psychopathy

Antisocial Personality Disorder

ASPD is DSM-speak for Psychopathy/Sociopathy. They think it sounds more scientific or something. And it is focused on behavior more than on the inner psyche. Very Behaviorist of them. Psychologists like Robert Hare and Kevin Dutton discuss Psychopathy independently of whatever the American Psychiatric Association is up to. When I wanted to be assessed with the PCL-R, I was told that’s only used for prison populations.

Psychopath Night was shown on English TV. It’s a generally fine and balanced documentary. They made a few regrettable, what I would call errors. But, for the most part, it is excellent, not only informative but entertaining. One disagreement I have is that Psychopath Night never should have started their countdown with Hitchcock’s Psycho. As they admit, Norman Bates isn’t a psychopath but they say Hitchcock got it wrong. Hello! Hitchcock never said his movie was about a psychopath. It’s about a “psycho,” short for psychotic.

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Links

• Wisdom from Psychopaths? – Scientific American, Kevin Dutton
• Presidential Candidates May be Psychopaths — but that could be a good thing. Kevin Dutton
• Are Psychopaths Unfairly Stigmatized? Psychology Today. Looks like Kevin Dutton is having an impact on society’s thinking.
• It Takes a Psychopath to Like Another Psychopath. Psychology Today
• 7 Traits of the Modern Sociopath. Psychology Today.
• What Makes a Hero? What Makes a Psychopath? Psychology Today.
• Emotional Intelligence Not Relevant to Psychopaths. Psychology Today.
• Are Psychopaths Really Smarter Than the Rest of Us? Psychology Today.
• Why Do We Like Psychopaths? Psychology Today. Not the usual thing. Good read.
• The Allure of the Dark Side. Psychology Today.
• 6 Scary Realities of Working With Psychopaths. Really about James Fallon, a neuroscientist who discovered he was a psychopath and wrote a book about it.
• Five surprising things I learned about psychopaths. Lucy Hunter
• Psychopaths have feelings: can they learn how to use them? Aeon Ideas
• Lifting the Veil of Psychopathic Intrusion in Everyday Life. by Nozomi Hayase
• Women Can Be Psychopaths Too. The Conversation
• Probing Psychopathic Brains. Science Daily
• Exploring the Criminal Behavior of Women With Psychopathy. Taylor & Francis
• Psychopathy and the Medical Profession. Disrupted Physician
• Psychopathy of the Dark Triad, by Ivan Throne
• The Psychopath: A New Subspecies? Brent Kopenhaver Jr.
• Why Can’t Women Recognize Psychopaths? The Path Whisperer
• No Strings on Me. Like Pinocchio without Jiminy Cricket, psychopaths are conscience-free.
• How Facebook Became a Home for Psychopaths. There are a lot of good Facebook groups for psychopaths. Unfortunately, this article doesn’t mention them.
• Signs of a Psychopath. In Love With a Psychopath and other articles.
• Behind the Mask: The Myth of the Psychopath. It was bound to happen sooner or later. A book has been published which questions some of the most cherished opinions about psychopathy.
• The Myth of the Born Criminal: Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate by Jarkko Javala, Stephanie Griffiths, Michael Maraun. The fact that none of these authors appear to have any scientific creds gives pause yet the one reviewer (so far) on Amazon promises the book refutes Martha Stout which is reason enough to try it.
• Suffering Souls, by John Seabrook, The Search for the Roots of Psychopathy. The New Yorker (2008)
• Psychopathy, Adrien Ulrich Osterhues.
• FBI Focus on Psychopathy, GeneticPsychosMom (Tina)
• Psychopathy Linked to Specific Structural Abnormalities in the Brain. Neuroscience News.
• Can You call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? by Jennifer Kahn, New York Times Magazine
• When Your Child is a Psychopath. The Atlantic
• The Hidden Suffering of the psychopath, By Willem H. J. Martens, MD, PhD
• Psychopathy as an Evolutionary Asset. Dark Personalities by Joan Swart, Psy.D.
• FBI — Looking Behind the Mask. Implications for Interviewing Psychopaths
• Is God a Psychopath? Kriss
• Female psychopaths frequently underestimated and under counted, by Seth Meyers Psy.D.
• Sociopath’s Domain.
• Psychopathy: A Misunderstood Personality Disorder.
• Do Psychopaths Fall in Love?, Claudia Moscovici
• When Psychopaths Fall in Love, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.
• Psychopath Resistance.
• Do male and female psychopaths have different beliefs about morality?
• The Bright Side of Psychopathy No One Talks About. Learning Mind
• Why Do We Like Psychopaths? Blame the Amygdala
• Libertarians and Psychopathy. Psychology Today
• Is Lisbeth Salander a Psychopath? Psychology Today
• Why the difficult person at work probably isn’t a psychopath. The Conversation.
• Hare and Cleckley
  • The Psychopath: A Problem for Society, by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.
  • Without Conscience. Robert Hare’s Page for the Study of Psychopaths.
  • This Charming Psychopath. Hare, Psychology Today
  • Adaptive evolution? Psychopathy may be a result of ‘adaptive evolution’ rather than a disorder, says inventor of the psychopath test, Robert Hare.
  • Are You a Psychopath? Understanding the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.
  • Studies in Psychopathy. Psychopath vs. Antisocial Personality Disorder and Sociopathy. Recommended.
• What Psychopaths say About Ourselves.
  • Mirroring the Chameleon. Great find.
  • I am a Psychopath. The name, Athena Walker, is already well known to folks who hang out on Quora
  • I Test Positive For Psychopathy. This Is What My Romantic Relationships are Like. HuffPost, Athena Walker
  • What It’s Like Living As a Diagnosed Psychopath. By Katie Heaney
  • A Sociopath’s Philosophy. Calling Trump a Sociopath
  • Psychopathic Writings by Zhawq
  • Sociopathworld by M.E. Thomas
  • It Could Be You (about M.E. Thomas)
  • Perspectiveva. Eva Wachter presents her own writing and that of others  here in German.
  • The Dying Psychopath. The Random Thoughts of a Psychopath.
  • How to spot a psychopath. Not another one of those! By this is by a psychopath, Jacob Wells.
  • This Is How Normal Life Feels as a Psychopath. Jessica Brown
  • Do Psychopaths Laugh? by Zhawq
  • Psychopathic sense of humour, by James
  • A Psychopath’s Take on Morality, by James. An excellent discussion of morality, ethics and psychopathy. Recommended.
  • Do Psychopaths Suffer? by James
  • Psychopath meet Psychopath, by James
  • Stuff Psychopaths Say, by James
  • Psychopaths are Awesome/Psychopaths are terrible, by James
  • Mythbusting psychopathy (Part I), by James
  • Mythbusting psychopathy (Part II), by James
  • Your Favourite Character is a Psychopath, by James
  • Psychopaths in Song, by James
  • How a Psychopath Views You, by James
  • Are You My Next Target? by James
  • Grief, by James
  • Infiltration by Psychopath, by James
  • Phuccessful Psychopaths. A dialogue between James and Tina.
  • Conscience? What Conscience? by James
  • Meet the Parents of a Psychopath, by James
  • Random Musings of a Psychopath, by James
  • Is It Safe to Date a Psychopath? by James
  • Psychopath Watching You by James
  • The Psychopath Translator by James. What we really mean.
  • Psychopaths and Charm. Psychogendered, a Transgender Psychopath’s blog
  • Sociopath’s Domain. Interesting blog I just discovered. ZKM
  • 5 Things We Can Learn From a Sociopath. Sumopocky: Cutest Baking Blog, quotations from M.E. Thomas’ book Confessions of a Sociopath
  • I am a Child Psychopath
  • Murder Crow Eat Crow. Intelligent social commentary by a sociopath.
  • 4 Hidden Behaviors An Abusive Person Displays Before Revealing Themselves. (Should be “Abusive People…Revealing Themselves”)