We can find psychopaths everywhere:
- TV/media
- our office
- journalism
- big buisness CEO, link to article (huffingtonpost): goo.gl/mwkYFf
- among our politicians , link to article (huffingtonpost): goo.gl/OFyogb
You don't have to freak out. About 5% of people can have psychopathic tendencies. Psychopathy is one of the most dramatized mental disorder in films/media, the definition has been manipulated for a long time.
Psychopathy is not recognized psychological/psychiatric disorder, does not occur in a binary way. It is possible to have minor/more moderate psychopathic tendencies. We can't make a good test that can identify a person as a psychopath on 100%.
Most used tool for identifying psychopaths is the psychopathy checklist-revised PCL-R (20 points):
http://www.minddisorders.com/Flu-Inv/Hare-Psychopathy-Checklist.html
Many psychopaths have great success in politic, media, law, big buisness and being salespeople ... thanks to their ruthless nature. If we know that why so many people like them?
Now we can look on few subjective examples, ask your self how many points from the list (under picture) match to this people:
Characteristics with describe psychopaths
(if someone is psychopath it doesn't mean that he is a violent person):
Short list:
- a lack of empathy and feelings for others
- selfishness
- lack of guilt, problems with "right and wrong"
- a superficial charm that manifests exclusively to manipulate others
Long list:
- Aggressive, callous and cunning
- Absence of conscience and empathy
- Denial:will deny their own wrongdoing outright
- Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
- Willingness to engage in immortal, criminal conduct
- Ability to feign normal human emotions and empathy
- Very adept at manimulating others, especially emotionally
- Severely distorted sense of the consequences of their own actions
- Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
- Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
- Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
- Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
- Strong belife that thay will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior
- Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
- Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their own immortal behavior
- Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
- Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
- Pathological lying - will say anything without any concern for truth in order to advance their own hidden agendas
Sorry for mistakes (english is not my mother tongue) :)
Post made thanks to:
articles shown in the post
YT chanels Mark Passio and Stefan Molyneux