In Practice

Psychopaths may be described as individuals who continually participate in antisocial acts. They feel no guilt, remorse, or shame for their wrongdoings. They have a careless disregard for the rights of others. Psychopaths are devoid of any real feelings and values. They have no true emotions. They are immune to anxiety or fear and therefore they aren't worried about punishment or obeying rules. A psychopath can destroy a colleague, a neighbor, and a member of the family without so much as a backward glance or a flicker of guilt. They have no genuine loyalties. They have one focus: to be winners themselves even if it is at the expense of someone else. The "genuine" psychopath can use these qualities to be a sharp and ruthless businessperson.

Psychopaths appear incapable of either designing or following a life plan with worthwhile goals. They may be moved to antisocial behavior without warning and become suddenly aggressive or violent without provocation or reason. Unfortunately, psychopaths have developed no sound insights to account for their behaviors self-improvement can be a lengthy and difficult process. Basically, they don't have the will to change or improve.

By now you are probably curious to know how or why a person feels this way. In lesson 1 Freud described three parts of the personality- the id, the ego, and the superego or the conscience. The conscience gives us inner moral principles and a sense of right and wrong the psychopath has no conscience. If you ask a psychopath: is this situation right or wrong, good or bad, they can recite the correct answer. The problem is they have no commitment to allow through and behave in the correct manner.

In summary, these characteristics sum up the psychopath: intelligent, outwardly charming, vain, impulsive, deceptive, unreliable, callous, insincere, egocentric, emotionally undeveloped, demanding of immediate need/satisfaction, and unresponsive to interpersonal relationships. They are skilled liars. They are social predators doing whatever they want to whomever they can trick or control.

Approximately 1% of the population is psychosomatic. The observation-once a psychopath, always a psychopath is likely true. What are some reasons for the psychopath misfit? Psychopath is not a type of mental illness characterized by the onset of symptoms sometime during one's life. Many experts now believe that psychopaths are born; they are not formed from negative elements in their upbringing. Many psychopaths come from normal loving homes; they are not always the victims of abuse. One theory suggests that into the psychopath’s formative years, the mechanism, which develops the conscience, is faulty. In the shaping of a conscience, the conditioning process involves the pairing of a stimulus {punishment} with a response {fear, anxiety, and guilt). When a person matures, threats are not necessary to convince the oral person to refrain from antisocial behavior; they have become self-disciplined. In the case of a psychopath, the socialization process just described has been severely interrupted.

Another theory states the origin of the psychopathic personality can be explained by the parental rejection hypothesis. Some parents make no secret of the fact that they didn't want a child in the first place. These unwanted parents might frequently abuse children. Psychopaths are alienated from parents with serious consequences:

?#060;span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          They disregard social standards and values

?#060;span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          They disrespect authority in general which they view as an extension of parental influence

?#060;span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          They do not develop empathy or emotional identification with others

?#060;span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          They learn to hate instead of love

There are psychopathic children. Even some preschoolers can show these deviant characteristics: lack of empathy, fearlessness, being highly active, reacting to others as if they have no feelings, and not being concerned with respect to other people.

Why is the psychopath so potentially dangerous? Without a conscience, psychopaths are capable of committing any crime from robbery to murder. Psychopaths can destroy people that have close relationships with by ruining them financially or tearing them apart psychologically and emotionally. When people have no concern for their fellow human beings, then they are indeed seriously crippled in the area of interpersonal relationships. They don't see themselves as being abnormal. They aren't committed to counseling or therapy. They are not interested in rehabilitation.

In Theory

By: Athanasios Tsivos, thursday november the 22nd.

 Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who revolutionized the study of biology with his theory of evolution based on natural selection. Psychopaths are peoples with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behaviours without empathy or remorse. When psychology, and science are brought together provocative, and controversial theories result. It is most clear, that individuals who suffer from psychotic episodes are gifted. These individuals are natures elite, guaranteed to survive this world. It shall become quite evident that, assuming Darwin was correct in his theories these individuals are the perfect evolvance of the human race, perhaps not physically but most definitely emotionally and mentally.

Darwinism is the theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory. Assuming this to be true, leaving all religious beliefs and opinions behind, and looking at the human species, we see many deviants of our own kind. Psychology has labelled hundreds, if not thousands of these deviations. Given them all names categorized and, theorized. Of all of these unique“

conditions” the psy·cho·path (sk-pth) stands out, this word is in most everyone’s vocabulary. Often misused, and confused the word rarely sees proper use. Skilled Psychiatrists and doctors with years of research, and study can, only identify psychopaths.

”Psychopaths may be described as individuals who continually participate in antisocial acts. They feel no guilt, remorse, or shame for their wrongdoings. They have a careless disregard for the rights of others. Psychopaths are devoid of any real feelings and values. They have no true emotions. They are immune to anxiety or fear and therefore they aren't worried about punishment or obeying rules.”

Due to these strong characteristics, psychopaths are would be greats in this world. That is to say, if they weren’t labelled as deviants right from the start these individuals would without a doubt rise to the top of any occasion to be successful strong individuals.
 They would most definitely succeed in places where human emotions are not a priority. Can we be certain, that members of our government; military leaders or police officers are not psychopaths?

Thus far we have discussed, the possibility of psychopaths being the perfectly programmed to succeed. Is it fathomable to imagine a psychopath in a high seat of power? Why not, these individuals are able to act without recourse, which are a blessing and a curse at the same time. The goal at hand takes precedence over any other issue. Many regarded Hitler as a psychopath, and a genius. Hitler was incredibly successful, due to his apathy for the human race and his own peoples. These individuals are the perfect military leaders, perhaps not in the 21^st century with all of the bureaucracies and formalities our modern day leaders are forced to endure, but what about the ancient times. Sun Tsu, and Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun. Even as modern as Hitler, and many leaders throughout the world wars. Arguably, Vietnam falls into the same category. Many lives were lost, the human sacrifice is sometimes necessary in achieving a goal. Though the necessity for human suffering is a morally exhausting and controversial debate. Wouldn’t it just be simpler not to have a conscience?

Fortunately, psychopaths have developed no sound insights to account for their behaviour so self-improvement can be a lengthy and difficult process. This is simply nature’s way, of protecting its investment. After thousands of years of evolution, why would Mother Nature want a psychopath to conform into general society? This defies all rational logic. Hence the “protective shell.” Another reason, for the protective measures is the fact that so little of the general population “suffers” from this “mental illness”

There is reason to believe that psychopaths are born not coerced into being, negative elements show no effect in aiding individuals to become psychopaths; they come from normal loving homes and not always victims of abuse. This further aids the argument or belief that psychopaths are an evolvance of human kind.
Looking into other theories, some try to justify psychotic behaviours with the parental rejection hypothesis, the answer to this is the simple fact that even in utero children feel and react to the environment outside of the womb, this is a PROVEN medical and psychological FACT. The surroundings are negative, as are the mothers feelings towards the infant and the infant knows it. The infant is an “unwanted” child, and must learn to survive extremely early in the world, it is possible that Psychopathic characteristics develop in utero due to the reasons fore-mentioned.

What makes the psychopath so dangerous? Is that they are a deviant, and a threat to our species modern existence, these individuals were most likely praised for their bravery, wisdom, insight, cunningness, and apathy during centuries past. Most, If not all behaviours executed by psychopaths go against all that is known to be right and true in the current world in which we live. Psychopaths were masters of survival, sadly survival techniques are not needed in life due to what we have provided for eachother. Basic survival, dictates who lives and who dies. Without it, there is no doubt that we would be in the current state we are at. We simply would have perished long ago. In survival, there is no right and there is no wrong there is survival and it needs to be preserved at all costs. Self-preservation precedes the existance of others. In the end you’re all you’ve got.