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Psychopaths are born and not made. Hate is a poison of the mind. It is emotion. It is the easiest emotioni to recognize because it is so physical.
Hate is in the same family as anger, just more extreme. Psychopaths lie with ease and are very charming. John Wayne Gacy is a famous psychopath. Even after a piece of journalism proved his credentials for holding an important role in his community weere bogus, the community supported him even after it was proved that he lied. Gacy predicted they would support him because he had charmed them.
Psychopaths make up 1% of the general population, but 25% of the prison population, according to Dr. Hare. "Violence is not uncommon among offender populations, but psychopaths still manage to stand out," he says. "They commit more than twice as many violent and aggressive acts, both in and out of prison, as do other criminals."
1. Glibness/superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
4. Pathological lying
5. Conning/manipulative
6. Lack of remorse or guilt
7. Shallow affect
8. Callous/lack of empathy
9. Parasitic lifestyle
10. Poor behavioural controls
11. Promiscuous sexual behaviour
12. Early behaviour problems
13. Lack of realistic, long-term plans
14. Impulsivity
15. Irresponsibility
16. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
17. Many short-term relationships
18. Juvenile delinquency
19. Revocation of conditional release
20. Criminal versatility
21. Narcissism
The checklist is from the book; WITHOUT CONCIENCE by Robert D Hare, PHD.
Please link to the man who cures psychopaths please.
How the heck do you think someone could be born like that? :shock:
The film I saw on this was in the early 90's and I don't have the person's name. I don't think I said they were 'cured'. I said they began to be able to feel warmth for others. That is what the psychopath lacks. A lot of people not diagnosed as psychopaths also have the inability to feel empathy. For conclusive results the work would have had to continue. However it does show that healing is possible.
I have though found this. It may be the same person or it may be someone else. As this work was also stopped it possibly is the same person. This however is not what I saw. You will need to do a lot of reading. Here is an exert.
Dr BOB JOHNSON
"The reason that they are so anti-social
is that they really don’t care,
they have been taught they are of no
consequence, they have no self-esteem
and they don’t believe that any other
human-being is of any merit or value
at all. So therefore they are quite
comfortable with the notion that if
you cut people up and chop them up, or
put them through the mincer which is
what you hear and these people are
quite capable of doing that,
they register no feelings, they
have no value system there because
they’ve never been taught any value
system."
........
Tom Mangold
"Dr Johnson’s starting point in therapy
with men like Lee was that predators
are not born evil they simply learn to
become evil often from childhood
trauma they’ve never talked about
before."
Dr Bob Johnson
"I would sit down with them, get to
know them first, this is the first
thing. I would establish a trusting
straight-forward relationship with
them, something that many of them had
never had before and this took a long
time in some cases, a matter of years.
And then I would discuss with them the
deepest fears they’d had, the fears
from childhood, the traumas they’d
suffered, things that they would not
wish to talk about at all, that was
the key. There was a terror in
childhood that they blocked off. I
used to call it frozen terror or
buried terror. Every single one, they
wouldn’t all reveal it, they wouldn’t
all discuss it, some discussed it sort
of indirectly or moved themselves, but
there’s no question in my mind now
that inside every memory there was a
toxic memory which is this terror."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama