A Wikipedia printout on Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and an article in Scientific American Mind (“Inside the Mind of a Psychopath” September/October 2010) interested me in the topics of ASPD and psychopathy. I wanted to see how they scored on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist- Revised, a standard for clinical assessment. I was also interested in […]
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Well into the eighteenth century, the only types of mental illness – then commonly called “delirium” or “mania” – were depression (melancholia), psychoses and delusions. At the beginning of the 19th century, the French psychiatrist Pinel coined the term “manie sans delire” (madness without fantasies). Patients who lacked impulse control often lashed out in frustration […]
Without Consciousness: The World’s Troubled Psychopaths Among Us Robert D. Hare, PhD Jeffery Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Gacy, Jeffery Macdonald, Gary Tison, and David Berkowitz. What do they all have in common? Others murders; others serial killers, others artists con. However, they are all bound to be social predators. They were embraced, handled, and lived […]