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	ON PRIMARY INTEGRATION, psychopathy and average person
		In cases of psychopathy (emotional retardation), we find a distinct unification of psychological functions into a coherent character structure, where intelligence is subsumed under control of primitive egocentric drives and instincts such as the instinct of self-preservation or primitive sexual instinct.
		Psychopathy is an example of either none or extremely weak developmental potential; or of negative developmental potential, if the primarily integrated character structure includes a-developmental components of overexcitabilities, namely of psychomotor and sensual OE.
		Dabrowski was aware of the changes that psychopathy as a diagnostic entity had undergone in the psychiatric terminology and his understanding reflects contemporary and commonly accepted clinical definitions of the term.
	members.shaw.ca /positivedisintegration/Primary.htm (2355 words)

	Psychopathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychopathy (pronounced /ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθi/ in General American) is a term derived from the Greek psyche (soul) and pathos (suffering), and was once used to denote any form of mental illness.
		Currently, psychopathy is defined in psychiatry as a condition characterised by lack of empathy or conscience, poor impulse control and manipulative behaviors.
		Psychopathy, as measured on the PCL-R, is negatively correlated with all DSM-IV Axis I disorders except substance abuse disorders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychopathy (2930 words)

	Psychopathy - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki
		Psychopathy is derived from the Greek psych (mind) and pathos (suffering), and was once used to denote any form of mental illness.
		These days Psychopathy is defined in psychiatry as a personality disorder characterised by lack of empathy or conscience, poor impulse control and manipulative behaviors.
		Psychopathy is frequently associated with drug abuse and alcoholism, which exacerbate psychopathic behavior.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Psychopathy (1616 words)

	Psychopathy
		Theoretically, psychopathy is a three-faceted disorder involving interpersonal, affective and behavioral characteristics.
		In contemporary research and clinical practice, psychopathy is most commonly assessed with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), which is a clinical rating scale with 20 items.
		The item scores are summed to yield a total score ranging from 0 to 40 which is then considered to reflect the degree to which they resemble the prototypical psychopath.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ps/Psychopathy.html (170 words)

	Deviant Crimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Psychopathy is relevant to the study of deviant crimes because many offenders demonstrate traits of this character disturbance, and is best described in the writings of Hare (1993), Meloy (1988), and Cleckley (1988).
		Grandiosity is also a hallmark of psychopathy, and there are those who have argued that psychopathy is simply an extreme form of narcissism.
		The first signs of psychopathy may be seen in childhood with early behavior problems, juvenile delinquency, and lack of long-term life goals or planning.
	www.deviantcrimes.com /psychopathology/psychopathy (1511 words)

	Diagnosing evil in Australian courts: psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder as legal synonyms of evil. - ...
		Psychopathy constitutes a small subgroup (estimated at between 15-30%) of persons diagnosed with ASPD and represents a personality construct comprised not only of the behavioural characteristics of ASPD, but also of various affective (e.g., callousness, lack of remorse) and interpersonal (e.g., pathological lying, egocentricity) processes (Cleckley, 1976; Hare, 1993).
		In other words, while ASPD and psychopathy may be formal clinical diagnoses within the mental health professions, their status in the law is effectively no different to that which would attach to a legal judgement that an offender is evil.
		Thus, in the criminal context, far from mitigating the circumstances of a crime, a diagnosis of ASPD or psychopathy generally functions as an aggravating factor at the sentencing phase and is used to justify harsher sentences.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-2351194_ITM (4596 words)

	The Origins of Violence: Is Psychopathy an Adaptation? by Ian Pitchford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Checklist highlights the key emotional and interpersonal symptoms of psychopathy: psychopaths are said to be glib and superficial; egocentric and grandiose; to lack remorse or guilt; to lack empathy; to be deceitful and manipulative; and to have shallow emotions.
		Psychopathy is not associated with low birth weight, obstetric complications, poor parenting, poverty, early psychological trauma or adverse experiences, and indeed Robert Hare remarks ‘I can find no convincing evidence that psychopathy is the direct result of early social or environmental factors’ (Hare, 1993, p.
		Given the paucity of evidence in favour of developmental instability and brain damage in psychopaths the suggestion that psychopathy is an adaptation is worthy of further exploration.
	human-nature.com /nibbs/01/psychopathy.html (3371 words)

	The Predator's Gaze: Science News Online, Dec. 9, 2006
		Evolutionary psychologists regard psychopathy as an inherited personality style that has evolved because glib, deceitful individuals—as a minority within a larger population of trusting folk—often reproduce with much success.
		Moreover, although a high psychopathy score offers the strongest single indication of whether a prisoner will be violent in the near future, it doesn't doom an offender to a life of mayhem, Edens holds.
		In simulated court cases, participants acting as jurors assigned the death penalty to two-thirds of murderers portrayed in expert testimony as psychopaths, as opposed to roughly one-third of murderers described as either psychotic or free of mental disorders.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20061209/bob9.asp (2555 words)

	psychopathy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The core elements needed for the development of psychopathy, including a profound inability to experience empathy and all emotions, as well as fear are in part a result of family environment.
		Higher rates of psychopathy in the offspring of depressed parents are concurrent with genetic and environmental explanations.
		Since antisocial behaviour is a significant characteristic of psychopathy, and this study reveals the importance of a supportive family environment in the prevention of antisocial behaviour.
	chat.carleton.ca /~kmcrober/psychopathy.htm (5025 words)

	Psychopathy and the hippocampus
		The possibility that differences in degree of psychopathy would explain the findings in the type 2 alcoholics - the positive correlation between the hippocampal volumes and age - was studied in a the latter of the studies.
		It was hypothesized that subjects in their early twenties would be likely to display higher degree of psychopathy, being natural born killers, delinquente nato, than those who are being examined in their forties in forensic psychiatric evaluation due to violent offending.
		The degree of subjects' psychopathy was studied using the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R) and an inverse correlation was found - the smaller the hippocampi, the more severe the degree of psychopathy.
	www.uku.fi /neuro/bl0101.htm (799 words)

	Development of Blameworthiness in Adolescence
		Psychopathy is a personality disorder defined chiefly by callousness and emotional detachment.
		The predictive power of measures of psychopathy in studies of adult offenders, in conjunction with increasing pressure to identify juvenile delinquents who are likely to commit future violence, has sparked considerable interest in juvenile psychopathy.
		Knowing whether we can reliably assess psychopathy during adolescence, and whether such assessments predict adult psychopathy, is especially important, because normative, but transient, characteristics of adolescence (e.g., impulsivity, risk-taking, egocentrism) easily may be mistaken for what are presumed to be permanent traits of psychopathy.
	www.mac-adoldev-juvjustice.org /page27.html (579 words)

	Female Psychopathy: Equal but Distinct
		The construct of psychopathy, generated largely on male offender populations, appeared applicable to female offenders; however, their absolute rates of symptoms and severity of symptoms were lower.
		Consistent with other study results, the researchers found psychopathy and histrionic personality disorder to be related in their female sample.
		But the study also clearly demonstrates that any equation of female psychopathy with acts of aggression or other problematic behaviors is facile and unwarranted.
	echo.forensicpanel.com /1998/1/1/femalepsychopathy.html (435 words)

	The Childhood Psychopath: Bad Seed or Bad Parents? by Katherine Ramsland;
		Psychopathy -- mostly as APD -- has been related to conduct problems in children, but there are so many overlapping conduct disorders that the concept gets muddled.
		Psychopathy and conduct problems are independent yet interacting constructs in children, similar to the way criminal behavior and psychopathic personality traits interact in adults (e.g., glibness and manipulation).
		It may be the case that childhood psychopathy forms at this crucial stage, especially if there is a neurological predisposition in terms of lack of behavioral inhibition and sensation-seeking.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/psychology/psychopath/3.html (1601 words)

	Bad Seed: Child Psychopathy Emerges
		To examine the relation between childhood psychopathy and stable antisocial behavior, three groups of delinquent boys were compared on 13 psychopathic items (e.g., glibness, conning, lack of remorse, pathological lying).
		Psychopathy is still not recognized in DSM-IV as a distinct diagnostic entity.
		Research on adult psychopathy is limited by the effects of years of drug and alcohol abuse, physical fighting, lost opportunities, and multiple incarcerations.
	echo.forensicpanel.com /1997/9/1/badseed.html (557 words)

	About the lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Psychopathy refers to a constellation of affective (e.g., superficial charm), interpersonal (e.g., callous disregard for others' feelings), and behavioral (e.g., criminal activity) impairments characterizing the most severe and treatment-resistant forms of antisocial behavior.
		Research on child psychopathy entails an exploration of the developmental precursors to adult psychopathic behavior.
		Child psychopathy research suggests that the children at greatest risk for later psychopathic behavior are subsumed in the early-onset category.
	www.psy.fsu.edu /~loney/about.htm (1015 words)

	The Psychopathy Checklist
		In research on psychopathy, it is often necessary to identify groups of inmates with high, medium, and low levels of psychopathy using specific cut off scores (Wong, 1988).
		The significant association between the PCL and antisocial personality disorder is consistent with extensive data on the construct validity of the PCL in male prison populations (Harpur, Hakstian, and Hare, 1988 and Newman, and Kosson, 1986).
		Predictors of psychopathy and release outcome in a criminal population.
	www.swin.edu.au /victims/resources/assessment/personality/psychopathy_checklist.html (3898 words)

	Psychopathy, anxiety and malingering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He refers to such people as "secondary" psychopaths and argues that they are, by and large, irrelevant to the study of psychopathy as such since their behaviour results from apparently quite ordinary stresses and conflicts -- as distinct from the true or primary psychopath whose motivations generally defy conventional analysis.
		Whatever else they are, psychopaths are not notable for their foresight about the future and the sort of materialistic ambition that seems commonly to be measured in achievement-motivation studies would seem very strongly to require long-term planning and foresight.
		Given the fact that the Pd scale was "purpose-built" for the measurement of psychopathy and given its empirical method of construction (selecting item that discriminate known groups), however, the presumption of validity must at least initially lie with the Pd scale.
	jonjayray.tripod.com /psypat.html (2782 words)

	Psychopaths Among Us, by Robert Hercz
		Psychopathy may prove to be as important a construct in this century as IQ was in the last (and just as susceptible to abuse), because, thanks to Hare, we now understand that the great majority of psychopaths are not violent criminals and never will be.
		Psychopathy research is raising more questions than it can answer, and many of them are leading to moral and ethical quagmires.
		Or perhaps a psychopathy test could be used to prevent crime by screening individuals or groups at high risk -- for example, when police get a frantic "My boyfriend says he'll kill me" call, or when a teacher reports a student threatening to commit violence.
	www.hare.org /links/saturday.html (4973 words)

	Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case of Diagnostic Confusion
		Psychopathy- renamed antisocial personality disorder- was now defined by persistent violations of social norms, including lying, stealing, truancy, inconsistent work behavior and traffic arrests.
		Published in 1995 as the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) by Hart and colleagues, it is highly correlated with the PCL-R and is used both to screen for psychopathy in forensic populations and as a stand-alone instrument for the assessment of psychopathy in noncriminal populations.
		The differences between psychopathy and ASPD are further highlighted by recent laboratory research involving the processing and use of linguistic and emotional information.
	www.psychiatrictimes.com /p960239.html (2499 words)

	Psychology: Christopher J. Patrick
		Findings to date indicate that the core personality features of psychopathy are associated with a heightened threshold for shifting from a state of attentive engagement (orienting) to one of defensive mobilization.
		A recent extension of this work involves the investigation of the genetic and brain bases of individual differences in trait fear and fearlessness in monozygotic and dizygotic twins recruited from the local community.
		Psychopathy and negative affectivity: Analyses of suppressor effects reveal distinct relations with trait anxiety, depression, fearfulness, and anger-hostility.
	www.psych.umn.edu /faculty/patrick.htm (1747 words)

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		Mine doesn't meet the Psychopathy criteria posted by Punished OR the DSM criteria for AsPD, because of the absence of OVERTLY antisocial behaviour, or disregard for laws or social norms.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/npd/100476/1-9 (1123 words)

	Psychopathy and the Characteristics of a Cult Leader
		Psychopathy falls within the section on personality disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the standard source book used in making psychiatric evaluations and diagnoses.
		Neuropsychiatrist Richard M. Restak stated, "At the heart of the diagnosis of psychopathy was the recognition that a person could appear normal and yet close observation would reveal the personality to be irrational or even violent".
		Based on the psychopathy checklists of Hervey Cleckley and Robert Hare, we now explore certain traits that are particularly pertinent to cult leaders.
	www.dannyhaszard.com /captivehearts.htm (4246 words)

	The Psychopath - Savior or Scourge?: Syntheory.com
		Psychopathy is usually associated with criminal behavior, especially with "career criminals", those who typically engage in more than one type of crime and have been doing so for a long time.
		So one clue of psychopathy is if the person boasts about being able to outwit others.
		One major form of inoculation against psychopathy is effective parenting.
	www.syntheory.com /psychopathy/psycho.html (3351 words)

	Antisocial personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The closely related concept psychopathy, which should not be confused with psychosis, covers a generally more severe personality disorder.
		Antisocial personality disorder and the closely related construct of psychopathy can be assessed and diagnosed through clinical interview, self-rating personality surveys, and ratings from coworkers and family.
		For diagnosing psychopathy in forensic male populations, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is considered definitive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sociopath (1247 words)

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