Best pathology books according to redditors
We found 124 Reddit comments discussing the best pathology books. We ranked the 44 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 124 Reddit comments discussing the best pathology books. We ranked the 44 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Avoidance of responsibility is a primary characteristic of psychopathy. He ticks off all the other checkmarks, too. Only libel laws are protecting his ass from being called a psychopath openly. Educate yourselves about psychopaths -- I recommend these books I have read to understand my own lifelong contact with psychopaths, starting with my mother:
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
The Inner World of the Psychopath: A definitive primer on the psychopathic personality
He is commonly called a narcissist, but here's a handy rule of thumb. Not all narcissists are psychopaths, but all psychopaths are narcissistic. It's easy to understand why -- they don't see humans as humans, only objects to be manipulated for fun and profit. They, themselves, are the only conscious being, so nothing else matters. Their brains aren't wired to understand we have minds and memories, which is why they lie constantly to achieve their immediate needs. Strangely, the inability to experience emotions (and that includes fear, which is why Trump seems to never give a fuck about consequences) comes with no sense of past or future. There is only the "now."
1% of the population are psychopaths. You know more than one. Some say it's an evolutionary adaptation that exploits humans with emotions and morals, and that they are "intraspecies predators." There are professions that rely on psychopathic behavior, and you can draw your own opinions on them:
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
It is also commonly said that psychopaths are experts are reading people. This is false (because, to them, there is nothing to read). They are simply experts, from lifelong experience and practice, at putting people into situations with predictable reactions. For example, Trump likes to insult people because he knows it distracts them and takes them off their game as they try to defend themselves. Psychopaths like to do their manipulating in the background and behind peoples' backs (and in Trump's case, behind NDAs and hush money), thus Trump's biggest problem -- he's the world's most watched person and nothing goes unnoticed, so his previous tactics aren't working. He is thrashing more and more as he gets more desperate to deceive. He is not losing his mind or getting senile. He's a psychopath who can't understand why his old tricks are no longer working.
His apparent "humanness" is a practiced façade, as is true for all psychopaths. They learn, starting in childhood, how to fit in. Some learn how better than others. Trump is good enough at it to fool a large number of voters.
BTW, there's nothing saying a psychopath can't also be dumb as a brick or illiterate.
If you want to understand Trump's true pathology, read this author: https://medium.com/@Elamika
She is one of the authors featured in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. As you are reading, keep in mind these posts were published starting in 2015 before Trump was elected, as the author was trying to desperately warn what a person with Donald Trump's pathology would do in the White House. Everything she predicted back then just by considering his pathology has come to pass. Everything so far at least... you'll see what I mean when she starts talking about the implications of narcissistic rage from a man who controls a military.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal/dp/1591846005 ?
Have you read On Combat? It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC, there are stories about police officers' spouses who are going through the same your SO is, and I think there are even strategies on how to approach the conversation. (It's a great book that you should read nonetheless, but that's beside the point.)
If I misremember, maybe the author can help you if you contact him, as he's held lots of workshops with law enforcement and their families, and I'm sure the question has come up.
Memory and perception distortion is a very common response to deadly encounters even with the most experienced people imaginable. It's unusual to be able to accurately remember things like distances, time, and number of shots fired under extreme stress. Grossman's On Combat and Warrior Mindset have good discussions of the weird stuff that happens to human perception and ability in combat.
That’s respectfully not the case. Both are capable of identifying right from wrong (Source is this book). The difference(s) between psychopaths and sociopaths are not definitively agreed upon. So much so, that one argument is that the only difference is in terminology - sociopath being a sociological term and psychopath being a psychological term (this book).
Personally, my favorite concept defining a difference is that a sociopath is made while a psychopath is born. Sociopaths, while possibly containing a biological predisposition for anti-social behavior, become so primarily through developmental trauma or environmental factors, whereas psychopaths are born psychopaths. Judging by a lot of the research that has gone into linking low MAOA to violent psychopathic behavior, there’s a pretty strong argument for that (LOTS of good info on this in the Fallon book I linked above).
There is evidence for this. And psychopathic behavior appears in early childhood. On this see new books by Jim Fallon
http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal/dp/1591846005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382464726&sr=8-1&keywords=psychopath+inside
and Kent Kiehl http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Kent+A.+Kiehl+PhD&search-alias=books&text=Kent+A.+Kiehl+PhD&sort=relevancerank
Organizations like Blackwater don't hire run-of-the-mill soldiers. They often hire out of special forces organizations and the like.
For one: Special forces groups tend to train their soldiers a bit better, and they educate them on the stresses and psychological effects that combat will have on them. This makes them more able to cope with the difficulties brought on by the High-tempo work they do.
Similar training will be found in any high-tempo/specialized combat trades (including law enforcement). The book On Combat covers such ideas.
Unfortunately, this kind of training is not as widespread as it should be, so people who aren't experienced and trained go oversees, kill somebody, and hey are not adequately prepared to deal with what that means.
Edit: Books
On Combat
And more specifically for handling Killing a man:
On Killing
I fear failure, my ego likes to believe im smarter than most and because of that I selfsabotage because than I can always fall back on "if I tried id probably could've done it."
I can identify with that as well. Although not written by Jung it's nonetheless written by a Jungian Analyst - Robert Moore's "Facing the Dragon" addresses that sentiment well.
https://www.amazon.ca/Facing-Dragon-Confronting-Spiritual-Grandiosity-ebook/dp/B00514HFDU
>Non-triggered sociopaths also tend to excel in a lot of professions due to the same traits that seem cold.
yes.
bomb disposal experts, pilots, the more successful surgeons and lawyers, etc..
you can read this book The Wisdom Of Psychopaths.
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Psychopaths-Saints-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989
for an interesting take on this.
the author basically said psychopaths are not all serial killers. it's just a trait some people tend to have and be good at their chosen jobs because they veer towards those jobs somehow.
edited: formatting.
Some critical theory is pretty difficult. You might try Deleuze and Guattari A Thousand Plateaus.
From the amazon.com reviews:
"Why would I struggle with this 800-odd page monstrosity of densely-referential Gallic thought? Why am I here recommending that you do it?
Well...because it's worth the long, thorny trudge. You've got to get around some idiosyncratic vocabulary, but that's OK. Because, in fact, A Thousand Plateaus presents a credible candidacy for Philosophy for our Time (if you can still believe in that). The concept of the rhizome alone - burrowing, nonhierarchical, endlessly foliating thought - let alone fertile ideas like nomadology or the Body without Organs: once grasped, these are extraordinarily useful figures that can wind up restoring some sense of agency (and subversiveness, and fun) to your intellectual life. They're perfectly suited, especially, to life and work in the age of the deeply rhizomorphic Internet."
Considering just structure I'd recommend David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, if you can stomach all the endnotes. Other people have recommended Faulkner, so I would point you to this neat new development, that makes his difficult overlapping voices easier to parse.
Oh, and T.S. Elliot's The Wasteland is up in the public domain and there is such depth in this poem. You can find a lot of companions to this piece that will open it up for you, but try it through with virgin eyes at least once.
Please show evidence where medical professionals ever even speculated Barack Obama may have had narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, or in fact any Cluster B personality disorder.
(In case you are unaware: "Psychopath" is not an actual diagnosis. It's a common layman's term denoting any number of mental illnesses and personality disorders, but it is not a diagnosis. If we're talking about the stereotypical ultraviolent amoral type, you'd see a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder.)
In regards to Trump (and keeping in mind the caveat that many medical professionals will not even give a speculative discussion on this due to the Goldwater Rule--which itself has become a bit controversial under Trump's administration, itself indicative of concerns by medical professionals):
Psychology Today: "Malignant narcissism: Does the President really have it?"; LCSW not saying definitively due to Goldwater Rule, but noting Dr. John Gartner of John Hopkins University is under opinion Trump is potentially diagnosable as having narcissistic personality disorder with malignant narcissist traits--effectively a combination of narcissistic personality disorder with some aspects of antisocial personality disorder.
Blunt Therapy: Does Donald Trump have narcissistic personality disorder?: Randy Williams, LPC speculates Donald Trump does meet at least some of the diagnostic criteria.
Letter to (at the time) President Barack Obama asking for an emergency evaluation: Drs. Judith Herman (of Harvard Medical School), Nanette Gartrell (of University of California, San Francisco) and Dee Mosbacher (Community Health Systems, UCSF) noting that, while they cannot offer a professional diagnosis, they are requesting emergency evaluation for mental illness, neurodegenerative disorder, and/or severe personality disorder due to observed signs of mental instability and specifically noting concerns re narcissistic personality disorder
Letter to the Editor, New York Times, October 20, 2019: Dr. Henry J. Friedman of Harvard Medical School notes that Trump does likely meet, and in fact exceed, diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder just based on observed public behaviour
Psychiatry group tells members they can ignore 'Goldwater rule' and comment on Trump's mental health--the American Psychoanalytic Association has in general issued a statement that its licensed social workers and psychoanalysts are permitted to comment on Trump's mental health; the Goldwater Rule has been sacrosanct for decades, the mere fact the subject is being broached is itself a sign of concern
Donald Trump and The Definition of Insanity: As of 15 February 2017, upwards of 58,000 licensed mental health professionals (and over 70,000 as of 15 May 2019) had signed a formal petition expressing concern that Donald Trump meets the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder of malignant type and Amendment 25 proceedings must begin to remove him from office as medically unfit--explicitly noting that their professional obligation under the Tarasoff Rule (to use reasonable care to protect an intended victim if a patient presents a threat of serious danger of violence to that intended victim; it's actually one of the legal exemptions to HIPAA) requires them to express this concern
Unpicking Donald Trump's psychopathology helps explain the toxic reality facing America: Dr. Ian Hughes of University College Cork (UK) notes how Trump fits axis of narcisstic personality disorder, and also notes Dr. Bandy Lee's The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump as well as noting how extremist movements may actually make people with NPD worse
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: A book written by 37 distinct psychiatrists and other mental health professionals (including Dr. Bandy Lee (who has written on the topic of violence and violent personalities); Dr. Robert J. Lifton (who has written extensively on thought reform and tactics used in coercive groups) as the result of a conference at Yale University) which notes that--among other things--Trump meets criteria of narcissistic personality disorder as well as antisocial personality disorder
Trump on the Couch Inside the Mind of the President: One of a series of books on presidential psychology by Dr. Justin A. Frank (including Obama on the Couch and Bush on the Couch, notes concerns that Trump meets criteria of narcissistic personality disorder, combined with possibly antisocial and/or paranoid personality disorders and possible early signs of dementia
And I'll even add one that's not on Trump per se, but explicitly notes how Trump effectively runs a coercive quasi-religious group at this point:
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How The President Uses Mind Control: Dr. Steven Hassan, who is an exit counselor (mental health professional assisting people voluntarily leaving a coercive group using undue influence) who is himself a walkaway from the Moonies and who has written extensively on the spectrum of undue influence used by coercive groups and promoters of toxic relationships, does a formal analysis of "MAGA movements" as literal cults of personality--this becomes important because persons with narcissistic personality disorder are overrepresented as cult leaders and leadership in a coercive group or movement can make someone with NPD much, much worse
I got the title wrong: it is the Narcissism Epidemic. It has been around 4 years since I read that book, and I have much more experience recognizing narcissists in the wild now. I might have a different opinion if I were to read it now. However, it was not my impression, at the time, that the book focused on current social media so much as more along the lines of criticizing participation trophies and helicopter parents. Though, the reviewers definitely focus on their discussion of social media. What I was really getting at with my comment, is that maybe it is not so much a new thing as an old thing with different symptoms? And I definitely agree that narcissism doesn't grow in a vacuum. While there is some evidence for a genetic predisposition, I think that environment can play a huge role. As we see on this site, the appearance of good parenting doesn't necessarily equate with the kids growing up emotionally healthy.
u/Costco1L, I have no idea if they are baby boomers. I would think from pictures of the authors that they are more likely to be Generation X, but the pictures could be old.
A copy of this book or a download link to it:
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Mirror-Marlene-Steinberg-M-D/dp/0060954876/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dissociation+the+hidden+epidemic&qid=1569302237&sr=8-1
Information is vital. Systems need to understand the basis of their nature and why things are as they are. This book helped enlighten us to our reality and allowed some of our parts to begin their healing, because they needed an extra push to accept the truth of the matter first.
The number one thing to help a DID system is always therapy, in my opinion. If you have contact information for therapists who have experience with dissociation and especially DID in particular, getting that contact information to DID systems is vital. -ansem
> "How to deal with Narcissists"
So after a cursory internet search of this particular book, I found that it was actually on the same website that he listed at the end of his plan that no-one is going to implement or remember after today. Here's a fun little piece of their description of it:
> Liberals and Narcissists are the exact same animal. Nothing enrages each like the sight of someone enjoying success and happiness. They will never have the balls to lash out at you openly to your face. And after they wreck everything, they’ll claim it was an accident, and they are still loyal to you. Everything which is happening to our nation – I’ve seen it play out myself, at the level of the individual personal relationship, and there is absolutely no difference. It is uncanny. Both levels even have a burning instinctual drive to control the perceptions of everyone around them, by demanding to be the central hubs of information which inform everyone, be it the narcissist who demands to know everything so they can tell others first, or the Liberal media deciding what the people need to know – and what they don’t.
Great stuff, right? While that might just be someone imposing their view on the book, a quick glance at it's Amazon entry shows us this:
> This book contains some explanatory examples of narcissistic worldviews which political liberals will find disquieting and unpleasant to read. For that reason, it will prove most useful to those of a neutral or conservative political bent.
Huh. So it wasn't someone imposing their view on the book, this sentiment is practically hardwired in. Totally not a right-wing movement, GG, even though you're dumb enough to buy their books. Stay classy.
Dissertei de forma bem extensa sobre os sintomas e o transtorno em um outra thread da sub, dá uma olhada.
Fóruns sobre:
http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dpdr/
https://www.psychforums.com/depersonalization/
Melhores livros sobre o tema:
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Mirror-Marlene-Steinberg-M-D/dp/0060954876
https://www.amazon.com.br/Feeling-Unreal-Depersonalization-Disorder-Loss-ebook/dp/B003GB2ELI
Se tiver alguma duvida, posso tentar responder.
37 doctors literally wrote a book on Trump's mental state.
I'm 30 and still working that out, but have made progress.
For me, the journey has heavily involved psychology books, through which I have come to understand myself and my hangups better. Karen Horney was great for me, Our Inner Conflicts and Neurosis and Human Growth are works of genius. Firestone's The Fantasy Bond has helped me out a lot as well.
At the end of the day, it becomes what everybody else says: you jump in feet first and do your best. Start hitting on girls in more situations. Start being more honest about what you want, instead of thinking you have to be all roundabout. Etc. If a man pretends to be disinterested in sex, a woman will assume he is disinterested in sex.
But getting to the stage where I could even begin to do that has involved a whole lot of fucking psychology, for me anyway.
>I take issue with the notion that these authors have something secret to say, and that uninitiated people "just don't get it."
I also take issue with that notion. There is nothing secret going on. Take Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, for example.
Is this book difficult to read? Yes.
Can this book be criticized? Yes.
Have other researchers found the concepts in this book useful? Yes.
Is this book written in such a way as to purposefully obscure its meaning? Absolutely not.
Could these concepts be explained in a more clear and straightforward prose? Yes, and they have been.
Sure, it's a valid criticism to say, "This writing style is unnecessarily difficult." If we're discussing style, then of course there is plenty of room for criticism.
However, the criticism that all "postmodernists" (which is highly problematic as a blanket term to begin with) abuse scientific concepts is weak. How does one even go about "abusing" a concept?
We really need to make a sticky thread for this topic as it comes up almost weekly. Also, further reading on this topic that is useful includes the following,
Jung on Active Imagination edited by Joan Chodorow
https://www.amazon.com/Jung-Active-Imagination-C-G/dp/0691015767/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RQMWTAA2HM0C&keywords=jung+on+active+imagination&qid=1562245928&s=gateway&sprefix=jung+on+active+im%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-1
Robert Johnson - Inner Work
https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Work-Dreams-Imagination-Personal/dp/0062504312/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=robert+johnson+inner+work&qid=1562245758&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Barbara Hannah - Encounters with the Soul
https://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Soul-Active-Imagination-Developed/dp/1630513504/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=hannah+active+imagination&qid=1562246007&s=gateway&sr=8-4
https://www.carl-jung.net/active_imagination.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_imagination
Sounds familiar. I was about that age when I had a few episodes that had me convinced I was possessed. (Turns out Naught thinks it's funny to switch to Latin and screw with abusive then-boyfriend. Have been exorcised, 0/10, do not recommend.)
Obviously we can't diagnose you, so speaking with a therapist or psychologist is your best bet. If you have trouble finding one, maybe try going through the guidance counselors at your school and see if they have anyone that they can recommend. Your primary care doctor may also be able to refer you.
That said, going through therapy as a minor, you'll need to be aware that your guardians may have access to your records. You can address this specifically with your therapist - they may be willing to keep the actual physical notes very limited and not discuss things directly with your guardians. Your mom may also be able to seal your records from other people. Depends a lot on your therapist, but their goal is to build trust with you, so chances are if you tell them you're concerned, they'll look out for you.
One of the things generally recommended is journaling often and consistently. Encourage these other parts of yourself to do so as well, and periodically review to see if "anyone else" decided to write to you or if unexplained handwriting shows up. Even if you don't have a dissociative disorder journaling can be useful to record and process your emotions about this stuff. (PTSD is kinda the low end of dissociative disorders, DID being the high end of the spectrum.)
Another thing you can do is read. Read up on trauma. (Not specifically DID, but just general dissociation and stuff can be helpful as a base understanding.) I recommend "The Body Keeps the Score" which is a little dense, but explains how your body reacts to trauma in depth, "Stranger in the Mirror: Dissociation, the Hidden Epidemic" which does a reasonably good job of explaining different types of dissociation and has little mini-tests that you can use to gauge your experiences for severity. You might also find other subs like /r/cPTSD helpful.
Anyway. Best of luck to you. Hope you're safe and well both now and in the future. :)
(ETA : sorry, was trying to get this written before therapy and had to come back to it!)
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Warning: I'm trolling you
But actually, there's nothing like 'Capital' by Marx and Engles, since capitalism itself isn't a movement. Socialism is theorized as a progression from Capitalism, and Communism as a progression from Socialism. Industrial Capitalism comes first. It's been theorized this is actually one of the reasons Communism in Russia didn't work out so well--that they hadn't adequately developed their economy through the necessary stages of industrialization.
Edit: removed " and economic evolution"
Hey! Alright, so I'll go ahead and start with a disclaimer: I'm formally diagnosed with DDNOS, though it's close enough to DID (I'll point out where it differs) that I typically just call myself DID.
There are four of us:
I'm almost exclusively co-conscious with the others. This is the primary reason that I'm diagnosed DDNOS. What that means is that when another alter is in "control", so to speak, I'm either partially present or at the least aware of what's going on. I have occasionally gone completely inside, but it is very rare. For those with DID proper, it's much more common for them to have full switches, and they may not even be aware that the alters exist because they are never co-conscious and there is little communication.
That said, when I look in the mirror while another alter is out, I don't see myself as I typically would. I see the alter. It's hard to explain, really. I used to look quite a bit different from Melody (I was blonde, she has dark hair) so it used to be much more of a contrast. There are a couple of pictures that I'm in that I literally do not recognize myself at first because it is an alter out. I started dying my hair dark auburn a few years ago, and now the difference is less noticeable to me, but I am still 100% aware that it is her. My boyfriend can quite consistently tell which of us it is -- without us speaking. He says it's something in the eyes.
I don't have a gatekeeper, persay, but Guardian will take care of Little One at times and make sure she doesn't come out at an inappropriate time. I pretty much just have to reason with Melody in order to get her to stay in if I need her to.
I have seen US of Tara. I liked it a lot. It's obviously kinda over-the-top with the depictions of the alters, but that's kinda what's necessary for TV, which I can understand.
Here's some reading material I recommend:
You can AMA. I enjoy educating people about DID.
EDIT: Formatting.
If it was possible to organize a successful protest with Americans today, then you wouldn't have to appeal to strangers on the internet about how to organize them. There would be organizations which already existed, that people could learn how to engage in instead!
Nevertheless, if I had to give people something.
Those three books are enough to really get anyone going in the 21st century. Keep in mind, however, that men far more talented and experienced then both of us have completely abandoned organizing today because of how impossible it is.
Now! Opportunities will present themselves ~2030 for inconceivable revolutionary activity, but by then, the vast majority of the working classes will have starved themselves to death. (Therefore, we won't have to worry about places like the Red States because they will be too tired to accomplish anything)
So I would effectively keep low, for now, and focus on taking care of yourself. Now, if this sounds defeatist, I think it would be admirable to attempt to organize Millennials, but at the end of the day, if you don't manage to read the Narcissism Epidemic, You. Will. Be. Blindsided.
Why are you trying to identify with the planet?
The "I" or "ego" (the German word for "I") is specifically the thing that does not feel like a part of other things—it is the part of us which feels like an isolated observer (or 'eye'). So there is no way this part of you will ever feel equivalent with the planet, except through illusion. The truth is that the 'I' is the alienated part of us. The book Jung and the New Age by David Tacey expands on this perspective, taking the Jungian approach of putting "god(s)" "out there". Another book about identification with the divine, and the problems this often causes, is Facing the Dragon by Robert Moore.
There are methods to dissolve the edges of the ego (the "barrier" you refer to, I think), but these methods are either slow (years) or dangerous.
Is this what you are asking about? Methods of ego-dissolution?
> Not that I disagree with them on a lot, but they're a bunch of sad fucks.
Note that these self professed sociopaths agree with them on many ideas. They just don't like the people. Reminds me of some rpers who say they don't mind RP ideas, but don't like TRPers (majority people who subscribe to and get advice from TRP subreddit).
This serves as evidence for my virtue theory: that virtue ethics / valuation is how people judge rpers poorly. Many people don't naturally understand how to moderate behaviour, and to the rest of us this is a sign of lacking virtue. I.e. it's something learned through practice rather than theory. And it seems these people (bpers and self-professed sociopaths) are just criticizing "autistic trpers" for the same reasons. (Autism ==> not understanding how to moderate behaviour)
> Finally, the dark triad worship. I don't cringe often, but this one does it for me. I mean, I get it; I'm awesome, they want to be awesome. But, it's hilarious that they find something categorized as a disorder so appealing. It's like they don't understand that a bunch of people with the same characteristics are incarcerated. It just reeks of that neckbeardism 'women like bad boys'.
IllimitableMan's posts are too long for me to read, but one thing I caught on quickly that even he doesn't want to become DT... and he's the primary person writing about DT on TRP subreddit. I don't think anyone actually does want to become sociopathic. They talk about why sociopaths may have advantages over normal folk. This is no different from Kevin Dutton's own study on psychopaths:
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Psychopaths-Saints-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989
Does Dutton want to be a psychopath himself, or was this merely a topic of interest?
I'm guessing this self-professed sociopath doesn't read his sources. He probably doesn't have to if he can convince people he does just by sounding confident enough.
Actually psychopathy is not that uncommon, although there are good ones and bad ones.
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal/dp/1591846005
That's this book?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Psychopaths-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989/
I might pick it up!
The experiments have been done. You put a human face and a mechanical object in front of a new born and you measure how long they look at one vs the other. See this book for a comprehensive of the scientific literature.
I'm seeing Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her, Descent into Madness: A Personal Look into Schizophrenia, and The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. All of those are about schizophrenia, none of them are textbooks or as old as you describe.
Not every older book is possible to find with google. It's possible that she has the title exactly right, and it's just so obscure that nobody is talking about it online.
Inter-Library Loan is a great way to get ahold of rare books. If you have enough information, you can give that information to the library, and they'll check with other libraries until they find one that has the book. Then that library mails the book to your library. It can cost some money, but sometimes it's the only way to find some rare books.
How to Deal With Narcissists: Why they Became Evil, How They Think, And Strategies and Techniques to Take Control
http://www.amazon.com/How-Deal-With-Narcissists-Strategies-ebook/dp/B00L74Y2L6
It is free today. Enjoy.
>You got sources for that? I'm fairly sure you're wrong
The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain. Penguin/Basic Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0-7139-9671-5.
Amazon link
>Even neurologists can't tell whether a brain scan is male or female just by looking at it
Yes but if you scan 100 male brains, and 100 female brains, you will see patterns, and those patterns correlate strongly with pre-natal testosterone levels.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1780660251/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me= and this too :P
There is no evidence that SSRIs work by correcting any chemical imbalances, thats a marketing myth from the pharmaceutical companies that makes people feel more comfortable with taking antidepressants. There's also very little or no evidence that show any link between chemical imbalances in the brain and depression or any other mental disorder.
http://chriskresser.com/the-chemical-imbalance-myth
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392
http://www.amazon.com/Blaming-Brain-Truth-Mental-Health/dp/0743237870/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214846996&sr=8-1
"FDA Psychopharm Advisory Chair Acknowledges No Evidence for SSRI Chemical
Imbalance Claims:
Tuesday, 14 March 2006-
"Biological psychiatrists have looked very closely for a serotonin imbalance or dysfunction in patients with depression or
obsessive compulsive disorder and, to date, it has been elusive," says Dr. Wayne Goodman, Chair of the US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee."
The Stranger in the Mirror:
https://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Mirror-Marlene-Steinberg-M-D/dp/0060954876
> The fact that I fucked up on this means I'm carrying something in my head that is getting in the way of success.
Wrong.
Interviews are stressful, and many people choke up under certain types of stress and pressure. I recommend practicing, and I think Toastmasters can help you. Part of the reason for the baloney and screaming in basic training is that you can be innoculated to handle stress: you feel the fear and do it anyway. Then when you encounter fear and stress, you've already experienced it, and survived it, and you'll survive this stress as well.
There is also a book I recommend to folks called On Combat. There are a number of chapters that explain what stress can do to people, and how your body will do things you won't expect.
> And I blanked out.
All mammals experience the fight or flight response. You aren't the only person to sit there with your mouth open, like a deer in headlights. Another book that is helpful to read is Deep Survival, because some folks become addicted to that adrenaline rush, and that addiction leads people to take risks that they should have survived, but died.
i would recomend this : http://www.amazon.com/On-Combat-Psychology-Physiology-Conflict/dp/0964920514
got it used and its pretty good stuff.
I really like Sam Craft. She is autistic with an autistic son. She does a lot of blog work and has a lot of resources on the site she's with. She also wrote a book that is really good! I'll put the link to her original blog, the site she now runs with others and her book on Amazon.
Many things that I struggled with after getting my dx, Sam covered somewhere on her blog. I spent days reading her articles. Hopefully, they help in some way for you!
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https://everydayaspergers.com/tag/samantha-craft/
https://the-art-of-autism.com/ (All the contributors on this site are on the autism spectrum :) )
https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Aspergers-Samantha-Craft/dp/1610058054?ie=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0
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I'm not sure if this is really what you're looking for, but I just recently read The Psychopath Whisperer by Kent Kiehl who is a big name scientist in the criminal psychopathy field. It's basically his journey to try to figure out why psychopaths are the way they are. An easy and interesting read if you've ever been curious about how studies with psychopaths are conducted.
Wisdom of Psychopaths
Supposedly from an actual interview with a Navy Seal.
I have depersonalization and derealization more often than not. Its intensity is unnerving when my anxiety is high, but otherwise I just cope. When I look in the mirror I don't feel like the person is me. When I walk into target and see my figure on the security cam I feel like it's not me.
Edit: I have this book which I like to peruse occasionally to inform myself.
Also if you're interested in this kind of stuff maybe this would be cool to read
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591846005?pc_redir=1410064858&robot_redir=1
Nonfiction, but the author studies psychopaths and accidentally discovers that he himself has the brain of a psychopath, so he talks about his experiences along with the science
I've at least skimmed a ton of them, some are better than others. The ones I'd recommend are:
The Narcissism Epidemic by W. Keith Campbell is a pretty interesting read. It does have its shortcomings at points though, such as not mentioning some major potential sources of narcissism and focusing on others, but overall it's pretty decent. It'd be good if you're looking to read about a more psychological aspect of society today. (Well, Western society.)
>“The biggest childhood contributors to wife abuse – [1] Feeling rejected by one's father. [2] Feeling a lack of warmth by one's father. [3] Being physically abused by one's father. [4] Being verbally abused by one's father. [5] Feeling rejected by one's mother. (I would have expected that the relationship with the mother would have been more important, but that wasn't the case. […] A cold, absent and intermittently abusive and shaming father produces a boy with a weak sense of identity (also known as identity diffusion). […] A fathers' shaming is the worst thing that can happen to a boy.”
Donald Dutton and Susan K. Golant, The Batterer: A Psychological Profile (1997) http://www.amazon.com/Batterer-Psychological-Profile-Donald-Dutton/dp/0465033881
Ironically, mothers are almost as likely as fathers to cause this sense feeling shamed by a father.
Why?
Because women file for most divorces, and somewhere between 40% and 60% of divorced mothers with kids interfere with the visitation rights of the father. And when the kids ask where daddy is, these mothers say things like "I guess daddy's too busy for you," which lead to sons feeling shamed and rejected by fathers, when the father has no intention of doing so.
I mean any end times myth is gonna be pretty socialist. It's all eschatology.
You might like Anti-Oedipus or A Thousand Plateaus tho
> I'm a med student
Obviously not a good one if you read what you posted and thought that means there's a statistically significant effect from those treatments.
Seriously, I gave you a great source and I can give you more instead of relying on wiki. There are SOME effects on SOME individuals on the lower end of the spectrum but for people pouring bleach down someone's throat, they HAVE NO GOAL. They can't be convinced to work within the letter of the law because they aren't working towards anything. I don't get why that's so difficult for you to grasp.
Along with that paper, you can read this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Psychopaths-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989 which is a great case study of sorts.
There are plenty of other papers I can link you to but it seems like you're just ignoring what I'm linking anyway so no point in wasting my time. I don't care if you're a med student, that doesn't mean you can't be wrong about this. I have a personal interest in the topic and have studied it for my own pleasure so your lame claim to authority is meaningless.
The paper/book I've given to you is written by doctors not cartoonists.
Might only apply to the US, sorry. :P I was referring to this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1213212/The-ego-epidemic-more-inflated-sense-fabulousness.html
While digging this title up again, I also found this:
>Jean Twenge, associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University, tracks the rising egotism on college campuses in her new book, "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement." She has found that college-age women are developing narcissistic traits at four times the rate of college-age men. She attributes the startling discrepancy in part to parents who put their girls on a pedestal.
Book: http://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Age-Entitlement/dp/1416575995
I once dated a sociopath. Even though he was remorseless, he demonstrated a genuine concern for his disorder. It's a disorder, just like anything else. They are just people who are emotionally blind. Some have even make the argument that is an evolutionary advantage which allows individuals to efficiently achieve higher societal ranks due to their emotional callousness. Just as many end up in prison, many others end up as doctors, politicians, and business executives. I recommend that you read this book; it is about a neuroscientist who has aspd. Spoiler alert: He's actually a half way decent and successful guy who doesn't routinely boil puppies alive.
Really?
Dutton K The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (2012)
Are you going to tell me you will purchase this book and read it? Or do you want to use the summary used in the Wiki?
I think you're 100% wrong. Talk to anyone in the military or a real cop, whos been involved in a situation where it was kill or be killed and has had training to deal with that situation. They will tell you otherwise.
Or read any of these 2 combat psychology books:
On Killing
On Combat
You're talking out of your ass.
I appreciate the time you put into this reply, though it is really sad for me to see a statement like this upvoted so much - I do not consider some of your criticism to be true, mainly in the point 3 and I consider it a dangerous claim. And to be honest, I have a feeling that the situation considering psychotherapy in US is going into direction that I am (and many other people here in Europe too) kind of scared about, given that US is world superpower and well, kind of a world trendsetter. Though that might be for a longer discussion.
Anyway, Gestalt therapy is a wonderful and fully accepted approach here. I do not agree with point 3. Gestalt therapy can be used for those clients, hell, it can be used for people with psychotic disorders too. One of the really good sources - https://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Clinical-Practice-Psychopathology-ebook/dp/B00JJU7NFM
Many respected therapists here work with even the hardest clients using Gestalt therapy with success. Of course, it is up to the therapist to adapt the style to work with particular client and the Gestalt therapy is definitely not only about "okay what are you feeling now?" - the cornerstones are phenomenology, field perspective and existential dialogue, which can be used perfectly fine for any of the clients you mentioned. Sure, when somebody is acutely suicidal, you have to use some principles of crisis intervention, but it does not mean you have to let Gestalt therapy principles go as you are doing it.
Boy, it sure got quiet when Aingeala shoved that evidence into your face with that book link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Entitlement/dp/1416575995
>Narcissism—an inflated view of the self—is everywhere. Public figures say it’s what makes them stray from their wives. Parents teach it by dressing children in T-shirts that say "Princess." Teenagers and young adults hone it on Facebook, and celebrity newsmakers have elevated it to an art form. And it’s what’s making people depressed, lonely, and buried under piles of debt.
I find it hilarious that so many redditors are disproved and almost NONE of them are able to come back and say, "All right. You got me. I was wrong." justagirl90210 was right and you were wrong. If you're unable to admit you're wrong, how do you intend to ever improve?
It actually has been. The person you're responding to may not have included any sources, but here's one:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Entitlement/dp/1416575995
This was assigned reading in a college 101 course.
I mean, he is a CEO and successful businessman (debatable).
You don't get to that level without having sociopathic tendencies.
some great books on this are The Wisdom of Psychopaths and The Sociopath Next Door
I think that the sub sociopaths seems depressing to the observer. But there is actually a book that took your theory with psychopaths('Be a little of a psychopath to stay healthy and meet your goals') https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0374533989/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522137521&sr=8-1-fkmr2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=kevin+dutton+psycho
I would not say that I'm reponsible for others, but I definetly want to change something. One task I aim at is to find or build a Community that share ressources and makes political changes. More like Prometheus, go figure.
I can school you on book recommendations the same as at the dinner table and volleyball court;). Here is another: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Psychopaths-Saints-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989/ref=nodl_
So, this was always a topic of interest for me since I've always found it quite natural to be energetic and extroverted. I've recommended the book "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" by Kevin Dutton a few times in my comment history, and I will again here because it's truly a fascinating book.
In answer to your question, to appear more energetic to others, focus on your posture and your eyes. Someone standing up straight and confidently looking at someone's face/eyes when they're addressing them looks far more awake then someone slouched over and averting their gaze. Interestingly enough, you'll also feel more awake if you focus on your posture! Don't get me wrong, when I'm sitting down I have awful posture (6'5... most desks/tables are too low for me) but when I'm standing up I'm always up straight or potentially casually leaning on/sitting against something.
Another thing that's interesting is potentially down to empathy. People who "catch yawns" from others often seem more tired because they're always yawning when in actual fact a potential link has been shown (people have tried proving it and disproving it and neigher side of the debate has manage to 100% prove their point) between empathy levels and yawning.
That's just a couple things that I can think of off the top of my head, but the second paragraph is probably the more important of the two as it's easier to work on posture and where you're focusing your eyes than it is to work on not catching yawns.
> https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Psychopaths-Saints-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989
> Does Dutton want to be a psychopath himself, or was this merely a topic of interest?
> I'm guessing this self-professed sociopath doesn't read his sources. He probably doesn't have to if he can convince people he does just by sounding confident enough.
To set this argument straight: "He doesn't know why RP or what RP says about DT" or what is it?
https://smile.amazon.com/Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Age-Entitlement/dp/1416575995/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468438534&sr=8-1&keywords=the+narcissism+epidemic
I'm not sure if you're aware of the debate in the psychiatric community around that "rule" and our current situation with Trump. Many highly educated, thoughtful, professional, and dedicated psychiatrists consider it a public duty to warn about Trump's rather obviously extremely disordered personality. I say this as a member of that community.
ETA: https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists/dp/1250212863/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
> I personally don't know that much about real INFJs (I mostly know about my type, INFPs, INTJs and INTPs)
Yeah, it's the same with me. I know about all 16 types in a really vague way, but I am only well informed on INFJs and their common mistypes (especially INFPs).
INFJs love pleasing other people. We see enhancing other people as our function in life. We absolutely hate hurting people. Things you might not think twice about will eat us alive. We love to beat ourselves up over the damage (real or imagined) we do to other people. We pay way more attention to other people than we do ourselves. Basically the opposite of an INFP.
Which is why I said in the beginning he's not an INFJ. We would never ever do that. Even an unhealthy INFJ would not behave that way. Unhealthy INFJs are scheming and manipulative. An unhealthy INFJ would still at least feign interest in order to manipulate you...they would not simply bail on you.
> So I already made up my mind, that I personally don't know enough about him to confirm or contradict his statement, thus he gets the benefit of the doubt. For now. Doesn't mean that I am not listening to you.
I am just providing information. I will never know your situation as well as you do. I only have your posts here to go on. What you do with it is entirely up to you.
> Yeah, I am still not sure, what exactly he is lying about though.
It's possible it might not be anything. Some people are like that. They like the power that lying gives them. There may be no reason other than that.
In this situation (Straight guy, straight girl?) I would assume he's lying to get into your pants maybe.
> That's something I noticed about INTJs as well.
INTJs are actually really similar to INFJs. We have the same congintive functions; the two middle ones are just swapped. INTJs will still care about people too, sometimes almost to the same degree as INFJs. It's just not a priority for them like it is with us.
> I think you might be confusing them with psychopaths. Sociopaths are quite impulsive and thus rather easy to detect.
There is no clear distinction between the two. In Psychology, both terms are used interchangeably. From what I can tell, people generally use the term "sociopath" to refer to Psychopaths that are still functional. Meaning Psychopaths that can control their impulses. But the actual clinical definitions are not distinct from each other.
I don't know if you're a reader, but there is a great book on them - "The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success" - https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Psychopaths-Saints-Killers-Success/dp/0374533989
It goes into a lot of detail about how they think, and the ways they use to manipulate people.
> I have a huge interest in people in general. So, I don't even stay away from getting to know assholes better, because I wanna find out how they "work".
As long as you're aware of it. That's all that really matters.
This is a book that you should read, if you're going to carry and are uncertain about ending a life. It's pretty much required reading for Mil/LEO and very beneficial to CCW.
Sociopathic =/ psychopathic
This article highlights some key differences, worth a read
Also, just like many other personality disorders there is a wide spectrum of cases. James Fallon is professor of psychology and refers to himself as a "prosocial psychopath". He has a book that is a decent read, although it is a bit self-serving.
From out of nowhere. A book about what to expect from your body in a life-or-death situation. When shit's going down and your body is pumping adrenaline. How do you breathe to control yourself? How fast can your heart beat while you still remain composed enough to fire a gun accurately?
Every human being should read On Combat.
Also the criminally underrated IronMind.
Forewarned is forearmed.
I think it is an evolved response. According to attached, this is just an activated attachment system.
On Human Nature
[Pair-Bonding, Romantic Love, and Evolution](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1745691614561683
Attached
Handbook to Attachment Theory
The Fantasy Bond
Well I realllly want A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari but there are a few others I can think of
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533989/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_WYogzb3H20HN7
That's the book. They asked a question along the lines of "what's the difference in this group of pictures?" And the difference wasn't the subject. The difference was the persons hand in all of the shots had six fingers, and for some reason psychopaths tend to notice those things more than others.
It sounds like he's being abused, has an emotional disorder, or both. I would recommend OP discuss with their supervisor if CPS should be called (in case there is abuse/neglect at home) or if the child should get psychological testing.
Violent psychopathy is usually caused by a combination of factors:
If you want to learn more, this book is really great.
Autogenerated.
I have the psychopath gene, AMA.
Genetics
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I got my genome sequenced through Genes For Good and discovered I have several genes that predispose me to psychopathy. The main one effects MAO-A and is located on the X chromosome. I have two mutated versions. Psychopathy is much more common in men because they only need one copy to show the effects, whereas women need two copies. This means my dad has the gene and my mom has at least one copy (though judging from her personality, probably has two copies).
Chemistry
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Your body naturally produces MAO-A (Monoamine oxidase A) which breaks down dopamine, seratonin, epinephrine, norepinephrine, melatonin, and other monamines. If you have at least one working copy of MAOA, you can break them down normally. If all your copies are mutated, you are not good at breaking them down, so they tend to build up in your system, causing a variety of problems. In some people, this can cause parts of your brain to atrophy, leading to low intelligence, lack of empathy, aggression, and impulsiveness. The Psychopath Inside is a great book that looks at the brain morphology and behavior of violent psychopaths. James Fallon's Ted Talks are also really interesting.
What makes a Psychopath?
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Certain factors can predispose someone to being a psychopath. The more they have, the more likely they are one, but not always.
I did have a very traumatic childhood, and I do have high testosterone for a woman (PCOS), so I asked my therapist if she thinks I'm a psychopath, and she said no. I remember as a kid not understanding or wanting to play with other people, only with animals. I had a really hard time understanding and predicting their behavior. I was small for my age and got picked on, so I made an effort to understand human behavior from the paradigm of animal behavior that I already understood. Putting a lot of effort into that helped me to develop empathy and (hopefully) not become a bad person.
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Favorite kind of Beers?
: BaylisAscaris :
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: I don't like the taste of beer. I have a gene for being a supertaster of the
: bitter chemical in hops, which means most beer tastes like bitter grossness.
: Also, alcohol makes me feel sick when I drink even a small amount and
: interacts with my medications, so there isn't a lot of motivation to drink
: beer. What is your favorite kind?
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canopusvisitor :
What do you like to do for fun? or hobbies? or music?
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: I play videogames, do art projects, build things, cook, read scientific
: papers, code, do math, go camping, garden, and teach classes on BDSM. I
: don't really like music that much, possibly because I don't hear the normal
: spectrum of sound that people do (I can hear much higher but can't hear the
: lows). I do like Die Antwoord, NIN, Marilyn Manson, Project Pitchfork, AFI,
: Rammstein, Blut Engel, Awkwafina, but I don't listen to music that often
: because it annoys me.
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I assume you've looked into the psychology of being a psychopath from a
scientific standpoint, which, assuming my assumption is correct, what's the
most interesting thing you'v learned?
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: I haven't really studied the psychology aspect of it that much, but I have
: studied the psychiatry aspect. I used to think personality and mood were
: determined much more by nurture (upbringing) than by nature (genes) but the
: more papers I read and the more symptoms I experience, I'm now leaning the
: other way. I'm also learning that a lot of my weird symptoms actually have a
: cause. My body produces the normal amount of dopamine, serotonin,
: epinephrine, norepinephrine, melatonin, and other monamines, but I can't
: break them down properly, so: Excess dopamine means I'm generally in a
: good mood, I'm motivated to do things, I love projects and can focus on them
: for a long time, have sometimes dangerously low blood pressure, have fast
: reflexes, have anxiety, and am more likely than average to hallucinate.
: Excess serotonin means I'm more likely to experience serotonin syndrome
: (which happens when I drink alcohol or sometimes randomly), I have frequent
: diarrhea and nausea, and feel happy a lot. Being bad at breaking down
: epinephrine/norepinephrine, means I need to be really careful if I have to
: use an epi-pen for allergies, because the effect will last a very long time.
: Also, I experience an adrenaline reaction (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) much
: more easily and it lasts a really long time. This means I am much more
: likely to experience PTSD from an event, am more likely to feel stressed for
: a long time, and am more likely to have panic attacks which last a long time.
: Excess melatonin means I have no problem falling asleep or waking up
: whenever I want to, and I adjust to jet lag much quicker.
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Yup, you can't prove it. Because truth is subjective.
Your truth for the sake of truth is actually an illusion.
As someone interested in rational thought, I recommend reading this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irrationality-enemy-within-Stuart-Sutherland/dp/1780660251
Good luck.
It gets a lot of hate, but I'm a fan of Atlas Shrugged.
Neil Gaiman writes some good stuff too, but that's fiction.
I enjoyed The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Dr. Kevin Dutton. That was a non-fiction one I read in the past year or two.
Psychopathy is a brain characteristic. It's not something you can learn (or unlearn - though you can learn to manage it in many cases). You can get hardened by life, and adopt some of the characteristics. I think like most mental things it's a spectrum like autism. A person could have any of the three or four primary characteristics at some level of intensity. At very high levels it's probably very hard to not be a killer, and that person wouldn't be very motivated to stop except by purely pragmatic self-protection reasons, for as long as necessary (i.e. until they're no longer being watched.) But at lower levels these same characteristics are useful enough that a Google search for psychopathy will turn up 1/2 dozen books on how to use the characteristics to become a better manager.
I have a friend who was diagnosed with "some aspects of psychopathy" when he was a child. I can see it. He has little empathy, just doesn't see things in other people in that way, can't "feel your pain". He's somewhat charismatic, and is very good at presenting his side of things as glorious facts - it's very easy to believe what he says, even when I know that from history that a significant fraction of what he says turns out to be wrong. But he's also trustworthy and a guy that I would "trust in a gun fight to have my back."
Your doctor example is a good one. When you are having your heart valve replaced you do not want a surgeon who can "feel your pain", you want someone who can work on you like an inanimate object, who is motivated by his/her own technical success. The best book on psychopathy (also mentioned in the NY Times article) was written by a neurosurgeon who was curious about the topic. There is a test for psychopathy - I think he may have come up with it. He took the test along with others. He discovered that he fit the profile, and thought the test was bogus until his friends (and his wife) basically agreed with the test!
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not spam. I haven't read it. Just thought this would be worth a mention
http://www.amazon.com/Blaming-Brain-Truth-Mental-Health/dp/0743237870/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214837995&sr=8-1#customerReviews
Before I reply let me say that I am in no way an authority on this subject so I may be completely wrong.
Anyway the brain of a teenager is far from fully developed. In fact on of the major parts of the brain that is still underdeveloped in teens is the frontal lobe. This is theorized to be a factor as to why teens tend to make horrible decisions, and have trouble empathizing with others. Sociopathy, or antisocial personality disorder, is still not entirely understood but an underdeveloped frontal lobe is thought to be a factor. In fact, people with injuries to their frontal lobes often have huge changes in personality, check the story of Phineas Gage for more details.
Because of this it's not far off to say that the teenage brain is similar to that of a sociopath in that regard, however almost every teenager continues to develop and they leave that stage. Brian could have very well. So it's within the realm of possibility that even though he was completely cold and didn't care that he had just murdered someone, that he is a completely different person today.
Again. Not an authority on the subject for anyone is free to correct me. The brain, neuroscience, and human psychology is still very ambiguous and mostly a mystery to us.
Further reading:
Fuck you and the bag of dicks you eat daily. Maybe you should learn what hardship is and quit being a fucking pussy. Even before, and after, the military I learned you have to fucking deal with life instead of crying about your feelz. OMGZ SOMEONE SAID A BAD WORD! Toughen the fuck up and worry about yourself and what you are doing. Instead of being a bunch of whiny cunts.
http://news.yahoo.com/millennials-weak-skills-threaten-americas-competitiveness-120000913.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-millennials-gen-x-and-boomers-shape-the-workplace-2013-9
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/08/08/jean_m_twenge_and_narcissism_are_millennials_more_self_absorbed_than_other.html
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2014/mar/16/generation-y-probably-no-worse-than-baby-boomers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Mickey-goodman/are-we-raising-a-generati_b_1249706.html
Please grow up and read a book here and there. I know your generation doesn't really know how to but please try.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416575995/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416575995&linkCode=as2&tag=slatmaga-20
I am by far and away not the only person to think this. NPR actually ran a series on how pussified this upcoming generation is.
> To give preference for something like that would monetize it and perpetrators would glorify it even further.
I don't understand that. From a LEGAL perspective, and we are a nation of laws, we monetize abuse and harm ALL THE TIME. Yes, we put people in prison for wrongdoing, but we also fine them for lesser crimes.
Our whole legal system is built on money, just like our economic system is. You and I and everyone here, we all have a $ signs stamped on us whether we like it or not.
Warren Buffet is worth billions. He's got a huge $ stamped on him.
Me, I'm worth far, far less. I don't even earn what his secretary earns. A ship is sinking and the life-raft can only fit one more person. It's a choice between me and Mr. Buffet. FOR SURE the other passengers are going to leave me behind and take Mr. Buffet because of the giant $ on his forehead.
I hate to tell you this, but that's the truth. We are all already QUANTIFIED. We all have a value placed on us by retailers, but also, in many cases, by our governments.
Anyway, since we are all already quantified, we have a credit score, a net worth, in many cases employers see us as having a "maximum wage" based on the wages we've earned in the past, all I'm saying is, why not help victims of DV and sexual assault by quantifying that harm too?
Don't ask me how it could be done. I am not a social scientist or statistician.
But consider this: In many cases, the abusers get away with their deeds. Many times they are not reported, or the full extent of their crimes are never recorded. Many victims of DV put up with it for years before calling police or seeing a counselor. They have not written down every incident, or taken photos of every bruise.
In the meantime, THE ABUSER KEEPS ON WORKING! I'm going to say he, because it's usually men who are the perpetrators of DV, he keeps on working, getting raises, keeps his connections in the workplace. HE doesn't suffer any career harm at all.
It is usually just his victim(s) who are the basket cases. He compartmentalizes his life so he's fine at work. It's only at home that he can't handle conflict. (I read this book recently, about half of it, and the author described this very well. https://www.amazon.com/Batterer-Psychological-Profile-Donald-Dutton/dp/0465033881)
So he goes on the career track, doing fine, and she's a mess. If she had written down every single incident of abuse, and taken him to court, and won her case, the court would punish him and that's supposed to give her some justice.
But since that hardly ever happens, the legal system hardly ever imprisons batterers, there is very little justice for DV survivors.
Nevertheless, even after leaving the bad relationship, they carry the scars, scars not only in their minds, but in their career lives and earnings also. Missed work days coping with the craziness, low self-esteem so they won't even try to get a better job, or needed degrees because they're sure they can't do anything right, and maybe even problems handling the personality complexities in the workplace because maybe their perpetrator has left them with a deep mistrust of all men?
I'm not saying that's true of all DV survivors, but I'm sure it's true of many. They don't trust men, and yet, to get ahead in the workplace, they have to deal with them, learn how to speak to them so they can take her seriously, and, in many cases, have to learn how to fend off flirtations at work.
Do you see how the DV survivor is starting way back behind the starting line in the Career Race? Her un-abused female peers trust men, have maybe even learned to speak to them so they can hear her from having good relationships with her dad, brothers, and emotionally healthy boyfriends. She is starting at the starting line, with everyone else.
Don't kid yourself. We attempt to quantify justice all the time in this nation. It's not always successful, but we do try.
>Their definition is the exact opposite of low emotional variance.
I love how smug you probably felt while writing that. Take the time to actually read up on psychopathy. The dictionary definition is not accurate.
Here's your source:
http://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal-Journey-ebook/dp/B00C5R729S/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1418388115&sr=8-3&keywords=psychopath&pebp=1418388125403
http://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-Conscience-ebook/dp/B00G8ELS94/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1418388115&sr=8-6&keywords=psychopath
http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Psychopaths-Kevin-Dutton-ebook/dp/B007NKN9U8/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1418388115&sr=8-8&keywords=psychopath
A defining characteristic of psychopathy is experiencing diminished, or no, emotional variance under stress. Your source on that would be Robert Hare, who conducted an incredible amount of testing on the subject and essentially invented the concept of psychopathy.
Psychopaths are, like all mental illness, best represented by a spectrum. There are those "with the dials all turned up" that are emotionally unstable and act out violently regularly, but there are a great many who operate with low emotional variance and are far more in control of themselves in a given situation than an ordinary person. Their testing involved subjecting test subjects to scenes/pictures of violence and were able to identify the lowest emotional reaction as psychopaths.