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	Kubrick's Psychopaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Demographic studies of psychopaths are somewhat suspect because they rely so heavily on the institutionalized segment of the population of psychopaths, but they show that males outnumber females by at least 5:1, and that they almost always come from severely disturbed families[4] The deviant behavior is manifest even as young children.
		While the psychopath has likes and dislikes and fondness for the pleasures that human company can bring, analysis shows that he is completely egocentric, valuing others only for their enhancement of his own pleasure or status.
		The psychopath is remarkably free of both the psychological and physiological manifestations of anxiety[8].
	www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/pubs/kubricks.html (6376 words)

	Psychopathic Personality
		A psychopath is a person who appears normal on the surface, until he/she performs some outrageous criminal act.
		Psychopaths believe they are "entitled" to the lifestyle benefits of Western Civilization that most people only hope for as a potential reward for outstanding job performance, organizational loyalty, and smooth cooperation with other members of a team.
		Also, the full-blown psychopath is NEVER altruistic or ethical (except by accident), but may be shrewd enough to pretend altruism as sham behavior (to attract votes).
	home.ntelos.net /~write/sociopth.html (1048 words)

	Don Juan as Psychopath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In recent years, there has been a growing realization that there are many psychopaths who successfully avoid trouble with the law, and estimates of the percentage of psychopaths in the population (formerly estimated at about 3%, based on studies of prisoners) have been revised upward.
		Demographic studies of psychopaths are somewhat suspect because they rely so heavily on the institutionalized segment of the population of psychopaths, but they show that males outnumber females by at least 5:1, and that they almost always come from severely disturbed families[5] The deviant behavior is manifest even as young children.
		The psychopath is remarkably free of both the psychological and physiological manifestations of anxiety[9].
	www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/pubs/donjuan.html (5909 words)

	Are You Involved With A Psychopath? By Michael Conner, Psy.D
		A psychopath is always in it for their self even when it seems like they are caring for and helping others.
		Psychopaths with low intelligence or a poor education seem to end up in jail more than ones with a higher education.
		Some sociologists believe that a sexually promiscuous psychopath who can live off others is a survivor and may represent one of many genes for survival in the human species.
	www.crisiscounseling.com /Articles/Psychopath.htm (1237 words)

	The Inner Landscape of the Psychopath
		The surface of the psychopath, however, that is, all of him that can be reached by verbal exploration and direct examination, shows up as equal to or better than normal and gives no hint at all of a disorder within.
		Behind the exquisitely deceptive mask of the psychopath the emotional alteration we feel appears to be primarily one of degree, a consistent leveling of response to petty ranges and an incapacity to react with sufficient seriousness to achieve much more than pseudoexperience or quasi-experience.
		In the psychopath we confront a personality neither broken nor outwardly distorted but of a substance that lacks ingredients without which normal function in major life issues is impossible.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/narcissism/Cleckley1.html (3447 words)

	The Psychopath: The Mask of Sanity
		Despite their failures, psychopaths have a very "narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astounding egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the center of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules." [Hare, 38].
		Psychopaths may apologize or show remorse only to get away with something, but in the end you will be stabbed in the back and realize how very shallow their words were.
		As for recovery from the psychopath, despite the pain that may be left (some people never recover, according to Field), you will learn how very uncomplicated yet cowardly the psychopath's means of keeping cool is. It's just the way the psychopath must function to maintain their rather fragile (but set in stone for life) self-image.
	www.cassiopaea.com /cassiopaea/psychopath.htm (12236 words)

	Mahjoob.Com Forums - The "psychopath":The MASK of SANITY
		Usually psychopaths put on the nicest act, and you look like the harpy and ***, and so everyone takes their side, it is a horror story, a psychopath** can be very charming, and manipulative and manipulate the smartest of people[Example:Making the Ex.Boyfriend seem so bad and she/he on the other hand is the victim.].
		Once again, because the psychopath makes her feel so "special." Please ladies, if you're stuck on any man who is like this, you must come to terms with the fact that it is NOT his REAL personality.
		One psychopathic individual I knew claimed that he had a genius IQ and that he was studying several different majors at college.
	www.mahjoob.com /en/forums/showthread.php?t=121464 (5518 words)

	Inside the psychopath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They suggest that ''the psychopath finds it difficult to process, handle, or use emotional material in the same way the rest of us do,'' said Robert D. Hare, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British Columbia and widely considered the world's foremost authority on psychopaths.
		In essence, Hare said, it appears that ''emotion for the psychopath is like a second language,'' one he or she must struggle to speak and never master deep down.
		Even their murders tend to be dispassionate: A study of 125 Canadian murderers found that among those with high psychopath scores on the PCL-R, 93 percent of their killings were ''instrumental,'' practical, rather than crimes committed in the heat of high emotion.
	hubel.sfasu.edu /courseinfo/articles/physio_psychopathology.html (1141 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Sister Act) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Psychopaths (also known as "sociopaths") possess the same problem-solving skills that the rest of us do, and some of them have been found to be remarkably brilliant (e.g., Ted Bundy).
		Psychopaths are intermingled with the general population and are not that easily identified.
		Psychopaths are held in check only by their fear of being caught and punished; the potential impact of their actions upon others is without relevance to them, and guilt is just a word in the dictionary to them, not something they themselves experience.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/hoaxes/sister.htm (700 words)

	PSYCHOPATHS AMONG US
		PSYCHOPATHS AMONG US Dr. Robert Hare claims there are 300,000 psychopaths in Canada, but that only a tiny fraction are violent offenders like Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olsen.
		Psychopaths are not like the rest of us, and everyone who studies them agrees they should not be treated as if they were.
		Until the psychopath came into focus, it was possible to believe that bad people were just good people with bad parents or childhood trauma and that, with care, you could talk them back into being good.
	www.hare.org /links/saturday.html (5027 words)

	Official Culture - A Natural State of Psychopathy? by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
		Psychopaths can be very sociable, even though they are antisocial behind their "mask" in the sense that their "emotions" are completely fake.
		In the psychopath's mind, this is justified because the victim crossed him, did not give him what he wanted, or rejected him (or her).
		Psychopathic behavior seems to be on the rise because of the very nature of American capitalistic society.
	www.cassiopaea.org /cass/official_culture.htm (5194 words)

	Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
		In pioneering long-term studies of psychopaths in the workplace, Babiak focused on a half-dozen unnamed companies: One was a fast-growing high-tech firm, and the others were large multinationals undergoing dramatic organizational changes -- severe downsizing, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.
		It includes eight traits: glibness and superficial charm; grandiose sense of self-worth; pathological lying; conning and manipulativeness; lack of remorse or guilt; shallow affect (i.e., a coldness covered up by dramatic emotional displays that are actually playacting); callousness and lack of empathy; and the failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.
		Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/96/open_boss.html (3253 words)

	The Depressive and the Psychopath - At last we know why the Columbine killers did it. By Dave Cullen
		"Psychopaths are not disoriented or out of touch with reality, nor do they experience the delusions, hallucinations, or intense subjective distress that characterize most other mental disorders," writes Dr. Robert Hare, in Without Conscience, the seminal book on the condition.
		Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable.
		Psychopaths follow much stricter behavior patterns than the rest of us because they are unfettered by conscience, living solely for their own aggrandizement.
	www.slate.com /id/2099203 (1912 words)

	Do you live with a psychopath? - Mental Health
		A psychopath is unable to explore other people’s feelings and thoughts.
		Most psychopaths are men; even though the women are following because of the high competition with men.
		The disease is incurable; the psychopath won’t admit he is sick and therefore won’t be motivated for treatment.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art12361.asp (622 words)

	The Childhood Psychopath: Bad Seed or Bad Parents? by Katherine Ramsland;
		In the research, these children are regarded as "fledgling psychopaths" who will become increasingly more dangerous as they get older.
		Psychopaths have been called sociopaths, but they've also been distinguished as a separate and distinct group.
		Given society's interest in diminishing the crime rate among the most chronically recidivating offenders -- psychopaths -- it is important to determine if childhood psychopathy is a clearly measurable manifestation.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminology/psychopath (1037 words)

	Sociopath; Sociopaths; Psychopath; Psychopaths; The Sociopathic or Psychopathic Personality
		In addition, the majority of psychopaths (4% of the population, although some think this is a modest estimate) are not just serial killers or greedy, cut-throat CEOs, but many are abrasive personalities who enjoy making life difficult for others.
		The Psychopath In Film and Literature These are the best-known films depicting the psychopath in various forms: violent and/or predatory; covetous; malicious; also includes a short list of films depicting "societial" psychopathic behaviour.
		Psychopaths as Cult Leaders, Dictators, Gurus, and Tyrants These are individuals whose narcissism is so extreme and grandiose that they exist in a kind of splendid isolation in which the creation of the grandiose self takes precedence over legal, moral or interpersonal commitments.
	www.geocities.com /lycium7/psychopathy.html (1945 words)

	PSYCHOPATH - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PSYCHOPATH is a webzine run to support an on-line community of Games players.
		Originally, psychopath was a paper based games zine sent out on a monthly basis.
		There is a growing community of GMs on psychopath and you can become one of them.
	www25.brinkster.com /psychozine/idiot.asp?game=about&season=about (648 words)

	CNN.com - 'Corporate psychopaths' at large - Aug 26, 2004
		But not every psychopath is a budding Hannibal Lecter or Patrick Bateman, the Harvard Business School-educated Wall Street banker with a sadistic murderous streak who is the anti-hero of Brett Easton Ellis' brutal novel "American Psycho".
		They may not be violent, the New Scientist magazine warns, but their character traits are identifiable as psychopathic and they're helping them climb the corporate ladder.
		The key characteristics shared by all psychopaths -- Professor Hare estimates that as much as one percent of the population of Britain and North America are clinically psychopathic -- are their lack of compassion and inability to empathize with others.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/BUSINESS/08/26/corporate.psychopaths (601 words)

	The Inner Landscape of the Psychopath: Hervey Cleckley
		The psychopath as we conceive of him in such an interpretation seems to justify the high estimate of his technical abilities as we see them expressed in reverse movement.
		The activity of the psychopath may seem in some respects to accomplish a kind of protracted and elaborate social and spiritual suicide.
		The more experience I have with psychopaths over the years, the less likely it seems to me that any dynamic or psychogenic theory is likely to be established by real evidence as the cause of their grave maladaptation.
	www.cassiopaea.com /cassiopaea/innerpsycho.htm (7650 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| How to spot a psychopath at work
		They will not be violent, but their psychopathic traits will allow them to climb the career ladder, New Scientist magazine reports.
		Professor Hare estimates that around one per cent of the population of North America could be described as psychopaths.
		They will then interview a "normal" population of managers, and a group of high flyers to see if they can distinguish exactly which traits lead to career success and which have less desirable consequences.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/3579402.stm (397 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Real lives: Is your boss a psychopath?
		But scientific evidence that leaders really are different in their personal pathology from the rest of us has been lacking - until now.
		These are portrayed as emotionally detached, with superficial charm and an unbounded preparedness to use others, differing only from personality-disordered criminal psychopaths in being law-abiding and less impulsive.
		Because such reports are ultimately anecdotal, Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon of Surrey University decided to test whether there was any overlap between the personalities of business managers, psychiatric patients and hospitalised criminals (psychopathic and psychiatrically ill).
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1462339,00.html (1068 words)

	IGN: E3 2005: Psychopath Announced
		The game was developed in collaboration with acclaimed film director, John Carpenter, who offered his cinematic direction and serves as an significant authority for the in-game character designs.
		Psychopath puts players in shoes of an ex-CIA operative who's called back into action after a serial killer is reported to be on the loose.
		Psychopath is the first of a series of deals slated to be announced in the coming months that will reflect Titan's goal to be a major conduit for original concepts which involve Hollywood and video game collaboration.
	ps3.ign.com /articles/617/617770p1.html (351 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - The Real "Psychopaths" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film goes beyond merely pointing out that corporations are responsible for polluting the environment, preying on unassuming consumers or exploiting workers -- it posits that these outrages and abuses are the direct result of the primary personality traits of the modern corporation.
		The film attempts to make the case that the modern corporation possesses all the personality traits of a "psychopath" intent on the pathological pursuit of profit and power.
		There's the "disregard for the well-being of others," of course, as well as "deceitfulness," and a host of other psychopathic traits.
	www.techcentralstation.com /070904A.html (617 words)

	What is a Psychopath?
		You'd recognise a psychopath if you were unlucky enough to come across one, wouldn't you?
		The media may portray the psychopath as a crazed serial killer - the stuff of nightmares and horror films - but the reality is chillingly different.
		17, 2001 -- Researchers measured emotional arousal in 25 psychopaths and 18 borderline personalities from two high-security forensic treatment facilities in an attempt to understand response to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.
	www.psychopath-research.com /whatis_psycho_4.html (141 words)

	The Corporation as 'psychopath' - UBC Faculty of Law - UBC Faculty of Law
		Chapter by chapter, they explore a simplified definition of antisocial personality disorder (the term 'psychopath' doesn't actually exist as an illness in the DSM) and apply it directly to their research findings.
		When they discover corporations are indifferent to the consequences of their actions, they check off another trait.
		As a result of a World Trade Organization deal, the villagers' water now belonged to an American corporation -- and to collect it in a pail as it fell from the sky amounted to a breach of international law.
	www.law.ubc.ca /news/faculty/2003/oct/03oct07.html (1235 words)

	The Socially Adept Psychopath
		It never seems to occur to most people that the perfect place for a psychopathic serial killer to hide in society is as a prosecutor or a judge; but I assure you that it occurs to the Psychopaths of the world.
		The ONLY difference between them and Ted Bundy is that they were able to control outward signs of their Psychopathy until they achieved their goal of being in a position of authority.
		The average person is heavily invested in doing things the way Psychopaths want them done, and is unaware that the things that the S.A.Ps have them doing are psychopathic.
	www.hal-pc.org /~rcanup/sap.html (1455 words)

	PSYCHOPATH: My PSYCHOPATH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What attracted me to Psychopath years ago were the Dip variants that used to be played here.
		I know that Real Life is priority for all, but these things reduce enthusiasm for returning to Psychopath.
		(B) what I like least about Psychopath is the time it can take to fill up a waiting list for a game, and the lack of rules for some of the games that are on offer.
	psychoboard.brinkster.net /forumtest/forum_posts.asp?TID=902&PN=1 (2703 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A forensic psychologist may be involved in assessment of offenders or interventions to prevent offending behaviour, usually with people who have already come in contact with the legal (additional info and facts about legal) or penal system.
		Often this involves working with offenders with mental health problems, or with people who act dangerously or in an antisocial manner (for example, psychopaths (Someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath'))).
		Criminal profiling is another important role fulfilled by forensic psychologists and typically involves building psychological profiles of unknown or at-large offenders from the known evidence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ps/psychology.htm (3482 words)

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