Personality and Values
- Jie, Remon & Raden
- Jun 26, 2016
- 2 min read
What is a Psychopath?
According to Dr. Hervey Cleckley, a psychiatrist who is considered one of the pioneer researchers of Psychopaths, wrote in his book "The Mask of Sanity" (1947, in Hare, 1993), describing psychopath as a fun person, has great intelligence, alert, and impressing. But also the personal discount irresponsible, self-destructive, has no empathy, anti-social behavior, and act with courage that can not be controlled. To make it simple, psychopath is a psychological behavior when a person are constantly looking for gratification (self-justification) on a variety of actions he did wrong. In addition, a psychopath nor does it have the ability to recognize and learn from mistakes.
". . . fun person, has great intelligence, alert, and impressing."
However, he has a high analytical and often belong to someone who is very intelligent.
Some of the symptoms and signs that may be owned by a psychopath include the waiver concept of right or wrong. Their actions tend to be hostile, irritable, easily attack others, are not easy to follow the rules or frequent protests, even violence. Psychopaths also have the ability to exploit others by misrepresenting consistent. Other symptoms are a high selfish attitude. They often intimidating, dishonest and misrepresented the events surrounding it. If they have children, typically will occur neglect or violence against children. But, apparently committing atrocities precisely the nature of love is not experienced by these patients. In fact, the psychopath is more famous for its deceitful and selfish to get his wish.
Psychopaths itself is more frequent in men than women.
Precisely, the cause of psychopaths could not be identified with certainty. These disorders arise because of unpredictable combination of genetic and traumatic childhood. It was concluded that because psychopaths usually grown from a family background that is not harmonious. The disharmony can be in the form of their abuse and neglect of children, parents addicted to alcohol, and fights the parents. Psychopaths itself is more frequent in men than women.
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