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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:02:46 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
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Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>news:mavah35vrupng3h068g8k4o5fof0lijifj@4ax.com.. .
>>
>> The Psychopathy Checklist lets us discuss psychopaths with little
>> risk that we are describing simple social deviance or criminality, or
>> that we are mislabeling people who have nothing more in common than
>> that they have broken the law. But it also provides a detailed picture
>> of the disordered personalities of the psychopaths among us. In this
>> chapter and the next, I bring that picture into focus by describing
>> the more salient features one by one. This chapter looks at the
>> emotional and interpersonal traits of this complex personality
>> disorder; chapter 4 examines the unstable, characteristically
>> antisocial lifestyle of the psychopath.
>>
>>
>> Emotional/Interpersonal
>> glib and superficial
>> egocentric and grandiose
>> lack of remorse or guilt
>> lack of empathy
>> deceitful and manipulative
>> shallow emotions
>> Social Deviance
>> impulsive
>> poor behavior controls
>> need for excitement
>> lack of responsibility
>> early behavior problems
>> adult antisocial behavior
>>
>>
>> A cautionary note: The Psychopathy Checklist is a complex clinical
>> tool for professional use.[1] What follows is a general summary of the
>> key traits and behaviors of psychopaths. Do not use these symptoms to
>> diagnose yourself or others. A diagnosis requires explicit training
>> and access to the formal scoring manual. If you suspect that someone
>> you know conforms to the profile described here and in the next
>> chapter, and if it is important to you to obtain an expert opinion,
>> seek the services of a qualified (registered) forensic psychologist or
>> psychiatrist.
>> Also, be aware that people who are not psychopaths may have some of
>> the symptoms described here. Many people are impulsive, or glib, or
>> cold and unfeeling, or antisocial, but this does not mean they are
>> psychopaths. Psychopathy is a syndrome--a cluster of related symptoms.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths are often witty and articulate. They can be amusing and
>> entertaining conversationalists, ready with a quick and clever
>> comeback, and can tell unlikely but convincing stories that cast
>> themselves in a good light. They can be very effective in presenting
>> themselves well and are often very likable and charming. To some
>> people, however, they seem too slick and smooth, too obviously
>> insincere and superficial. Astute observers often get the impression
>> that psychopaths are play-acting, mechanically "reading their lines."
>>
>>
>> One of my raters described an interview she did with a prisoner: "I
>> sat down and took out my clipboard, and the first thing this guy told
>> me was what beautiful eyes I had. He managed to work quite a few
>> compliments on my appearance into the interview -- couldn't get over
>> my hair. So by the time I wrapped things up I was feeling
>> unusually...well, pretty. I'm a wary person, especially on the job,
>> and can usually spot a phony. When I got back outside, I couldn't
>> believe I'd fallen for a line like that."
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths may ramble and tell stories that seem unlikely in light of
>> what is known about them. Typically, they attempt to appear familiar
>> with sociology, psychiatry, medicine, psychology, philosophy, poetry,
>> literature, art, or law. A signpost to this trait is often a smooth
>> lack of concern at being found out. One of our prison files describes
>> a psychopathic inmate claiming to have advanced degrees in sociology
>> and psychology, when in fact he did not even complete high school. He
>> maintained the fiction during an interview with one of my students, a
>> Ph.D. candidate in psychology; she commented that the inmate was so
>> confident in his use of technical jargon and concepts that those not
>> familiar with the field of psychology might well have been impressed.
>> Variations on this sort of "expert" theme are common among
>> psychopaths....
>>
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths have a 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. "It's not that I don't follow the law," said one of our
>> subjects. "I follow my own laws. I never violate my own rules." She
>> then described these rules in terms of "looking out for number one."
>>
>>
>> When another psychopath, in prison for a variety of crimes including
>> robbery, rape, and fraud, was asked if he had any weaknesses, he
>> replied, "I don't have any weaknesses, except maybe I'm too caring."
>> On a 10-point scale he rated himself "an all-round 10. I would have
>> said 12, but that would be bragging. If I had a better education I'd
>> be brilliant."
>>
>>
>> The grandiosity and pomposity of some psychopaths often emerges in
>> dramatic fashion in the courtroom. For example, it is not unusual for
>> them to criticize or fire their lawyers and to take over their own
>> defense, usually with disastrous results. "My partner got a year. I
>> got two because of a ******** lawyer," said one of our subjects. He
>> later handled his own appeal and saw his sentence increased to three
>> years.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths often come across as arrogant, shameless braggarts --
>> self-assured, opinionated, domineering, and cocky. They love to have
>> power and control over others and seem unable to believe that other
>> people have valid opinions different from theirs. They appear
>> charismatic or "electrifying" to some people.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths are seldom embarrassed about their legal, financial, or
>> personal problems. Rather, they see them as temporary setbacks, the
>> results of bad luck, unfaithful friends, or an unfair and incompetent
>> system.
>>
>>
>> Although psychopaths often claim to have specific goals, they show
>> little understanding of the qualifications required -- they have no
>> idea how to achieve their goals and little or no chance of attaining
>> them, given their track record and lack of sustained interest in
>> education. The psychopathic inmate thinking about parole might outline
>> vague plans to become a property tycoon or a lawyer for the poor. One
>> inmate, not particularly literate, managed to copyright the title of a
>> book he was planning to write about himself and was already counting
>> the fortune his bestseller would bring....
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths show a stunning lack of concern for the devastating
>> effects their actions have on others. Often they are completely
>> forthright about the matter, calmly stating that they have no sense of
>> guilt, are not sorry for the pain and destruction they have caused,
>> and that there is no reason for them to be concerned.
>>
>>
>> When asked if he had any regrets about stabbing a robbery victim who
>> subsequently spent three months in the hospital as a result of his
>> wounds, one of our subjects replied, "Get real! He spends a few months
>> in a hospital and I rot here. I cut him up a bit, but if I wanted to
>> kill him I would have slit his throat. That's the kind of guy I am; I
>> gave him a break." Asked if he regretted any of his crimes, he said,
>> "I don't regret nothing. What's done is done. There must have been a
>> reason why I did it at the time, and that is why it was done...."
>>
>>
>> On the other hand, psychopaths sometimes verbalize remorse but then
>> contradict themselves in words or actions. Criminals in prison quickly
>> learn that remorse is an important word. When asked if he experienced
>> remorse over a murder he'd committed, one young inmate told us, "Yeah,
>> sure, I feel remorse." Pressed further, he said that he didn't "feel
>> bad inside about it."
>>
>>
>> I was once dumbfounded by the logic of an inmate who described his
>> murder victim as having benefited from the crime by learning "a hard
>> lesson about life."
>>
>>
>> "The guy only had himself to blame," another inmate said of the man
>> he'd murdered in an argument about paying a bar tab. "Anybody could
>> have seen I was in a rotten mood that night. What did he want to go
>> and bother me for?" He continued, "Anyway, the guy never suffered.
>> Knife wounds to an artery are the easiest way to go."
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths' lack of remorse or guilt is associated with a remarkable
>> ability to rationalize their behavior and to shrug off personal
>> responsibility for actions that cause shock and disappointment to
>> family, friends, associates, and others who have played by the rules.
>> Usually they have handy excuses for their behavior, and in some cases
>> they deny that it happened at all....
>>
>>
>> Many of the characteristics displayed by psychopaths -- especially
>> their egocentricity, lack of remorse, shallow emotions, and
>> deceitfulness are closely associated with a profound lack of empathy
>> (an inability to construct a mental and emotional "facsimile" of
>> another person). They seem unable to "get into the skin" or to "walk
>> in the shoes" of others, except in a purely intellectual sense. The
>> feelings of other people are of no concern to psychopaths.
>>
>>
>> In some respects they are like the emotionless androids depicted in
>> science fiction, unable to imagine what real humans experience. One
>> rapist, high on the Psychopathy Checklist, commented that he found it
>> hard to empathize with his victims. "They are frightened, right? But,
>> you see, I don't really understand it. I've been scared myself, and it
>> wasn't unpleasant."
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths view people as little more than objects to be used for
>> their own gratification. The weak and the vulnerable -- whom they
>> mock, rather than pity--are favorite targets. "There is no such thing,
>> in the psychopathic universe, as the merely weak," wrote psychologist
>> Robert Rieber. "Whoever is weak is also a sucker; that is, someone who
>> demands to be exploited....
>>
>>
>> Lying, deceiving, and manipulation are natural talents for
>> psychopaths.
>>
>> With their powers of imagination in gear and focused on themselves,
>> psychopaths appear amazingly unfazed by the possibility -- or even by
>> the certainty -- of being found out. When caught in a lie or
>> challenged with the truth, they are seldom perplexed or embarrassed --
>> they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so
>> that they appear to be consistent with the lie. The results are a
>> series of contradictory statements and a thoroughly confused listener.
>> Much of the lying seems to have no motivation other than what
>> psychologist Paul Ekman refers to as a "duping delight....
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths seem proud of their ability to lie. When asked if she lied
>> easily, one woman with a high score on the Psychopathy Checklist
>> laughed and replied, "I'm the best. I'm really good at it, I think
>> because I sometimes admit to something bad about myself. They'd think,
>> well, if she's admitting to that she must be telling the truth about
>> the rest." She also said that she sometimes "salts the mine" with a
>> nugget of truth." If they think some of what you say is true, they
>> usually think it's all true."
>>
>>
>> Many observers get the impression that psychopaths sometimes are
>> unaware that they're lying; it is as if the words take on a life of
>> their own, unfettered by the speaker's knowledge that the observer is
>> aware of the facts. The psychopath's indifference to being identified
>> as a liar is truly extraordinary; it causes the listener to wonder
>> about the speaker's sanity. More often, though, the listener is taken
>> in....
>>
>>
>> "I'm the most cold-blooded son of a bitch that you'll ever meet. So
>> Ted Bundy described himself to the police following his final arrest.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths seem to suffer a kind of emotional poverty that limits the
>> range and depth of their feelings. While at times they appear cold and
>> unemotional, they are prone to dramatic, shallow, and short-lived
>> displays of feeling. Careful observers are left with the impression
>> that they are play-acting and that little is going on below the
>> surface.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes they claim to experience strong emotions but are unable to
>> describe the subtleties of various affective states. For example, they
>> equate love with sexual arousal, sadness with frustration, and anger
>> with irritability. "I believe in emotions: hate, anger, lust, and
>> greed," said Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker....
>>
>>
>> The apparent lack of normal affect and emotional depth led
>> psychologists J. H. Johns and H. C. Quay to say that the psychopath
>> "knows the words but not the music.For example, in a rambling book
>> about hate, violence, and rationalizations for his behavior, Jack
>> Abbott made this revealing comment: "There are emotions -- a whole
>> spectrum of them -- that I know only through words, through reading
>> and in my immature imagination. I can imagine I feel these emotions
>> (know, therefore, what they are), but I do not. At age thirty-seven I
>> am barely a precocious child. My passions are those of a boy....
>>
>>
>
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
>"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
>news:mavah35vrupng3h068g8k4o5fof0lijifj@4ax.com.. .
>>
>> The Psychopathy Checklist lets us discuss psychopaths with little
>> risk that we are describing simple social deviance or criminality, or
>> that we are mislabeling people who have nothing more in common than
>> that they have broken the law. But it also provides a detailed picture
>> of the disordered personalities of the psychopaths among us. In this
>> chapter and the next, I bring that picture into focus by describing
>> the more salient features one by one. This chapter looks at the
>> emotional and interpersonal traits of this complex personality
>> disorder; chapter 4 examines the unstable, characteristically
>> antisocial lifestyle of the psychopath.
>>
>>
>> Emotional/Interpersonal
>> glib and superficial
>> egocentric and grandiose
>> lack of remorse or guilt
>> lack of empathy
>> deceitful and manipulative
>> shallow emotions
>> Social Deviance
>> impulsive
>> poor behavior controls
>> need for excitement
>> lack of responsibility
>> early behavior problems
>> adult antisocial behavior
>>
>>
>> A cautionary note: The Psychopathy Checklist is a complex clinical
>> tool for professional use.[1] What follows is a general summary of the
>> key traits and behaviors of psychopaths. Do not use these symptoms to
>> diagnose yourself or others. A diagnosis requires explicit training
>> and access to the formal scoring manual. If you suspect that someone
>> you know conforms to the profile described here and in the next
>> chapter, and if it is important to you to obtain an expert opinion,
>> seek the services of a qualified (registered) forensic psychologist or
>> psychiatrist.
>> Also, be aware that people who are not psychopaths may have some of
>> the symptoms described here. Many people are impulsive, or glib, or
>> cold and unfeeling, or antisocial, but this does not mean they are
>> psychopaths. Psychopathy is a syndrome--a cluster of related symptoms.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths are often witty and articulate. They can be amusing and
>> entertaining conversationalists, ready with a quick and clever
>> comeback, and can tell unlikely but convincing stories that cast
>> themselves in a good light. They can be very effective in presenting
>> themselves well and are often very likable and charming. To some
>> people, however, they seem too slick and smooth, too obviously
>> insincere and superficial. Astute observers often get the impression
>> that psychopaths are play-acting, mechanically "reading their lines."
>>
>>
>> One of my raters described an interview she did with a prisoner: "I
>> sat down and took out my clipboard, and the first thing this guy told
>> me was what beautiful eyes I had. He managed to work quite a few
>> compliments on my appearance into the interview -- couldn't get over
>> my hair. So by the time I wrapped things up I was feeling
>> unusually...well, pretty. I'm a wary person, especially on the job,
>> and can usually spot a phony. When I got back outside, I couldn't
>> believe I'd fallen for a line like that."
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths may ramble and tell stories that seem unlikely in light of
>> what is known about them. Typically, they attempt to appear familiar
>> with sociology, psychiatry, medicine, psychology, philosophy, poetry,
>> literature, art, or law. A signpost to this trait is often a smooth
>> lack of concern at being found out. One of our prison files describes
>> a psychopathic inmate claiming to have advanced degrees in sociology
>> and psychology, when in fact he did not even complete high school. He
>> maintained the fiction during an interview with one of my students, a
>> Ph.D. candidate in psychology; she commented that the inmate was so
>> confident in his use of technical jargon and concepts that those not
>> familiar with the field of psychology might well have been impressed.
>> Variations on this sort of "expert" theme are common among
>> psychopaths....
>>
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths have a 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. "It's not that I don't follow the law," said one of our
>> subjects. "I follow my own laws. I never violate my own rules." She
>> then described these rules in terms of "looking out for number one."
>>
>>
>> When another psychopath, in prison for a variety of crimes including
>> robbery, rape, and fraud, was asked if he had any weaknesses, he
>> replied, "I don't have any weaknesses, except maybe I'm too caring."
>> On a 10-point scale he rated himself "an all-round 10. I would have
>> said 12, but that would be bragging. If I had a better education I'd
>> be brilliant."
>>
>>
>> The grandiosity and pomposity of some psychopaths often emerges in
>> dramatic fashion in the courtroom. For example, it is not unusual for
>> them to criticize or fire their lawyers and to take over their own
>> defense, usually with disastrous results. "My partner got a year. I
>> got two because of a ******** lawyer," said one of our subjects. He
>> later handled his own appeal and saw his sentence increased to three
>> years.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths often come across as arrogant, shameless braggarts --
>> self-assured, opinionated, domineering, and cocky. They love to have
>> power and control over others and seem unable to believe that other
>> people have valid opinions different from theirs. They appear
>> charismatic or "electrifying" to some people.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths are seldom embarrassed about their legal, financial, or
>> personal problems. Rather, they see them as temporary setbacks, the
>> results of bad luck, unfaithful friends, or an unfair and incompetent
>> system.
>>
>>
>> Although psychopaths often claim to have specific goals, they show
>> little understanding of the qualifications required -- they have no
>> idea how to achieve their goals and little or no chance of attaining
>> them, given their track record and lack of sustained interest in
>> education. The psychopathic inmate thinking about parole might outline
>> vague plans to become a property tycoon or a lawyer for the poor. One
>> inmate, not particularly literate, managed to copyright the title of a
>> book he was planning to write about himself and was already counting
>> the fortune his bestseller would bring....
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths show a stunning lack of concern for the devastating
>> effects their actions have on others. Often they are completely
>> forthright about the matter, calmly stating that they have no sense of
>> guilt, are not sorry for the pain and destruction they have caused,
>> and that there is no reason for them to be concerned.
>>
>>
>> When asked if he had any regrets about stabbing a robbery victim who
>> subsequently spent three months in the hospital as a result of his
>> wounds, one of our subjects replied, "Get real! He spends a few months
>> in a hospital and I rot here. I cut him up a bit, but if I wanted to
>> kill him I would have slit his throat. That's the kind of guy I am; I
>> gave him a break." Asked if he regretted any of his crimes, he said,
>> "I don't regret nothing. What's done is done. There must have been a
>> reason why I did it at the time, and that is why it was done...."
>>
>>
>> On the other hand, psychopaths sometimes verbalize remorse but then
>> contradict themselves in words or actions. Criminals in prison quickly
>> learn that remorse is an important word. When asked if he experienced
>> remorse over a murder he'd committed, one young inmate told us, "Yeah,
>> sure, I feel remorse." Pressed further, he said that he didn't "feel
>> bad inside about it."
>>
>>
>> I was once dumbfounded by the logic of an inmate who described his
>> murder victim as having benefited from the crime by learning "a hard
>> lesson about life."
>>
>>
>> "The guy only had himself to blame," another inmate said of the man
>> he'd murdered in an argument about paying a bar tab. "Anybody could
>> have seen I was in a rotten mood that night. What did he want to go
>> and bother me for?" He continued, "Anyway, the guy never suffered.
>> Knife wounds to an artery are the easiest way to go."
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths' lack of remorse or guilt is associated with a remarkable
>> ability to rationalize their behavior and to shrug off personal
>> responsibility for actions that cause shock and disappointment to
>> family, friends, associates, and others who have played by the rules.
>> Usually they have handy excuses for their behavior, and in some cases
>> they deny that it happened at all....
>>
>>
>> Many of the characteristics displayed by psychopaths -- especially
>> their egocentricity, lack of remorse, shallow emotions, and
>> deceitfulness are closely associated with a profound lack of empathy
>> (an inability to construct a mental and emotional "facsimile" of
>> another person). They seem unable to "get into the skin" or to "walk
>> in the shoes" of others, except in a purely intellectual sense. The
>> feelings of other people are of no concern to psychopaths.
>>
>>
>> In some respects they are like the emotionless androids depicted in
>> science fiction, unable to imagine what real humans experience. One
>> rapist, high on the Psychopathy Checklist, commented that he found it
>> hard to empathize with his victims. "They are frightened, right? But,
>> you see, I don't really understand it. I've been scared myself, and it
>> wasn't unpleasant."
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths view people as little more than objects to be used for
>> their own gratification. The weak and the vulnerable -- whom they
>> mock, rather than pity--are favorite targets. "There is no such thing,
>> in the psychopathic universe, as the merely weak," wrote psychologist
>> Robert Rieber. "Whoever is weak is also a sucker; that is, someone who
>> demands to be exploited....
>>
>>
>> Lying, deceiving, and manipulation are natural talents for
>> psychopaths.
>>
>> With their powers of imagination in gear and focused on themselves,
>> psychopaths appear amazingly unfazed by the possibility -- or even by
>> the certainty -- of being found out. When caught in a lie or
>> challenged with the truth, they are seldom perplexed or embarrassed --
>> they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so
>> that they appear to be consistent with the lie. The results are a
>> series of contradictory statements and a thoroughly confused listener.
>> Much of the lying seems to have no motivation other than what
>> psychologist Paul Ekman refers to as a "duping delight....
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths seem proud of their ability to lie. When asked if she lied
>> easily, one woman with a high score on the Psychopathy Checklist
>> laughed and replied, "I'm the best. I'm really good at it, I think
>> because I sometimes admit to something bad about myself. They'd think,
>> well, if she's admitting to that she must be telling the truth about
>> the rest." She also said that she sometimes "salts the mine" with a
>> nugget of truth." If they think some of what you say is true, they
>> usually think it's all true."
>>
>>
>> Many observers get the impression that psychopaths sometimes are
>> unaware that they're lying; it is as if the words take on a life of
>> their own, unfettered by the speaker's knowledge that the observer is
>> aware of the facts. The psychopath's indifference to being identified
>> as a liar is truly extraordinary; it causes the listener to wonder
>> about the speaker's sanity. More often, though, the listener is taken
>> in....
>>
>>
>> "I'm the most cold-blooded son of a bitch that you'll ever meet. So
>> Ted Bundy described himself to the police following his final arrest.
>>
>>
>> Psychopaths seem to suffer a kind of emotional poverty that limits the
>> range and depth of their feelings. While at times they appear cold and
>> unemotional, they are prone to dramatic, shallow, and short-lived
>> displays of feeling. Careful observers are left with the impression
>> that they are play-acting and that little is going on below the
>> surface.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes they claim to experience strong emotions but are unable to
>> describe the subtleties of various affective states. For example, they
>> equate love with sexual arousal, sadness with frustration, and anger
>> with irritability. "I believe in emotions: hate, anger, lust, and
>> greed," said Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker....
>>
>>
>> The apparent lack of normal affect and emotional depth led
>> psychologists J. H. Johns and H. C. Quay to say that the psychopath
>> "knows the words but not the music.For example, in a rambling book
>> about hate, violence, and rationalizations for his behavior, Jack
>> Abbott made this revealing comment: "There are emotions -- a whole
>> spectrum of them -- that I know only through words, through reading
>> and in my immature imagination. I can imagine I feel these emotions
>> (know, therefore, what they are), but I do not. At age thirty-seven I
>> am barely a precocious child. My passions are those of a boy....
>>
>>
>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:05:53 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
>"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
>news:4u2bh3h2rd68tr22l4419h1669l3t7ob7k@4ax.com.. .
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes
>
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:05:53 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>news:4u2bh3h2rd68tr22l4419h1669l3t7ob7k@4ax.com.. .
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
>> http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOCONNOR/428/428lect16.htm (2 of 11)9/18/2007
>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
>> riot-torn anomic http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOCONNOR/428/428lect16.htm (5
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes
>
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
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> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
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> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
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>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes
>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:05:53 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes
>
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
>"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
>news:4u2bh3h2rd68tr22l4419h1669l3t7ob7k@4ax.com.. .
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:04:44 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
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Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>>
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
>>
>
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
>"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
>news:7t2bh3hpq2qsul59stt6o7o8pq6686md8i@4ax.com.. .
>>
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
>> riot-torn anomic http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOCONNOR/428/428lect16.htm (5
>> of 11)9/18/2007 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
>>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:04:44 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>news:7t2bh3hpq2qsul59stt6o7o8pq6686md8i@4ax.com.. .
>>
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
>>
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<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>>
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
>>
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On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:04:44 -0700, "L.W. \(Bill\) ------ III"
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
>
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>news:7t2bh3hpq2qsul59stt6o7o8pq6686md8i@4ax.com.. .
>>
>>
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
>> riot-torn anomic http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOCONNOR/428/428lect16.htm (5
>> of 11)9/18/2007 2:00:26 AM
>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>>
>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy they consider dull
>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
>>
>
<LWBill------@------.net> wrote:
Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
Norman Doidge
National Post
What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
"offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
-- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
treatments really psychotherapy?
Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
concern by definition.
But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
or "negative tapes" in her head.
Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
of mankind how to be remorseless.
But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
be practised.
So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
just say they are beyond therapy.
That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
treatment.
The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
"conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
> There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
>over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
>possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
>Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
>coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
>Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
>course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
>Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
>obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
>when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
>elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
>remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
>little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
>head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
>even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
> Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
>As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
> But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
>fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
>abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
> I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
>passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
>stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
>all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
>each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
>It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
> Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
>other accusations would be thrown out of court.
> When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
>man??????????
> People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
>hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
>Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
>groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
>Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
>Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
> You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
>suggest!!!!!
> If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
>Sheriffs Department.
> I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
>man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
>I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
>contradicts it's self.
> You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
> I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
>participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
>life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
> I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
>S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
>24bit:
>12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
>will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
>LW------@------.net
> Sincerely,
> Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
> You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
>before you hurt yourself or someone else.
> Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
>the top of your groups! :-)
> The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
>Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
>coward.
> BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
>:-)
> I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
>straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
> Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
> There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
>******* like would think of.
> That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
>------.
> Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
> God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>
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>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY, SOCIOPATHY, AND PSYCHOPATHY
>> "When I'm good, I'm very good. When I'm bad, I'm better." (Mae West)
>> People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people
>> repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some
>> mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may
>> be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong,
>> they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT
>> insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Samenow
>> 2004). In such cases, they usually fall into one of three types that
>> are typically considered aggravating circumstances in addition to
>> their legal guilt -- antisocial personality disorder (APD), sociopath,
>> or psychopath -- none of which are the same as insanity or psychosis.
>> APD is the most common type, afflicting about 4% of the general
>> population.
>> Sociopaths are the second most common type, with the American
>> Psychiatric Association estimating that 3% of all males in our society
>> are sociopaths and Stout (2005) estimating 4% of the population.
>> Psychopaths are rare, found in perhaps 1% of the population.
>> Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is practically synonymous with
>> criminal behavior, but as with all distributions of a disease or
>> whatever in a population, it is probable that the majority of people
>> with this particular affliction are law-abiding. Aging,
>> overinvolvements, and/or
>> relationships might hold sway over the control (or lack of control) in
>> these kind of people, and although approaching the study of offenders
>> from a relationship & personality disorders point of view may or may
>> not be productive, Dr. Drew is probably an adequate source of
>> information on
>> such matters. Dr. Drew's theory (and one with wide ramifications since
>> he pretty much defines an antisocial tendency as thinking about one's
>> self first) is that women with certain kinds of disorders, like
>> borderline personality disorders, tend to be attracted to and hook up
>> with men who
>> manifest symptoms of psychopathic personality disorder (see Lecture on
>> BPD & OCD) and that such match-ups may or may not be dysfunctional. On
>> the other hand, the field of criminology tends to treat APD as so
>> synonymous, in fact, with criminal behavior that practically all
>> convicted
>> criminals (65-75%) have it, with criminologists often referring to it
>> as a "wastebasket" category.
>> Antisocials come is all shapes and sizes, and psychologists consider
>> the juvenile version of it to be a juvenile conduct disorder. The main
>> characteristic of it is a complete and utter disregard for the
>> rights of others and the rules of society. They seldom show anxiety
>> and don't feel guilt. Although many people would hope that there's an
>> effective treatment, there's really no effective treatment for them
>> other than locking them up in a secure facility with such rigid rules
>> that they cannot talk their way out. A full list of APD traits would
>> include:
>>
>> List of Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits
>> Sense of entitlement; Unremorseful; Apathetic to others;
>> Unconscionable behavior; Blameful of others; Manipulative and conning;
>> Affectively cold; Disparate understanding; Socially irresponsible;
>> Disregardful of obligations; Nonconforming to norms; Irresponsible
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> whereas the DSM-IV "clinical" features of Antisocial Personality
>> Disorder (with a person having at least three of these
>> characteristics) are:
>>
>> Clinical Symptoms for an Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis
>>
>> 1. Failure to conform to social norms;
>> 2. Deceitfulness, manipulativeness;
>> 3. Impulsivity, failure to plan ahead;
>> 4. Irritability, aggressiveness;
>> 5. Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others;
>> 6. Consistent irresponsibility;
>> 7. Lack of remorse after having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from
>> another person.
>>
>> Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the
>> person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes
>> like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize
>> or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective.
>> Sociopaths only care about
>> fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity
>> to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted
>> around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own
>> needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good
>> for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term "sociopath" is
>> frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring
>> to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental
>> failures
>> (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of
>> temperament. Lykken (1995), for example, clearly distinguishes between
>> the sociopath (who is socialized into becoming a psychopath) and a
>> "true" psychopath (who is born that way). However, this may only
>> describe the "common sociopath", as there are at least four (4)
>> different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial.
>> Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; them
>> alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a
>> consistent sadistic streak; and dyssocials by an ability to abide by
>> gang rules, as long as those rules are the wrong rules. As Stout
>> (2005) indicates, it only takes three of the following to be defined
>> as a sociopath, and some common sociopathic traits include:
>>
>> List of Common Sociopathic Traits
>> Egocentricity; Callousness; Impulsivity; Conscience defect;
>> Exaggerated sexuality; Excessive boasting; Risk taking; Inability to
>> resist temptation; Antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the
>> opposite ---; Lack of interest in bonding with a mate
>> Psychopathy is a concept subject to much debate, but is usually
>> defined as a constellation of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral
>> characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity;
>> irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or
>> remorse; pathological lying;
>> manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and
>> expectations (Cleckley 1976; Hare 1993). The crimes of psychopaths are
>> usually stone-cold, remorseless killings for no apparent reason. They
>> cold-bloodedly take what they want and do as they please without the
>> slightest sense of guilt or regret. In many ways, they are
>> natural-born intraspecies predators who satisfy their
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
>> lust for power and control by charm, manipulation, intimidation, and
>> violence. While almost all msocieties would regard them as criminals
>> (the exception being frontier or warlike societies where they might
>> become heroes, patriots, or leaders), it's important to distinguish
>> their behavior from criminal behavior. As a common axiom goes in
>> psychology, MOST PSYCHOPATHS ARE ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES BUT NOT ALL
>> ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITIES ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
>> This is because APD is defined mainly by behaviors (Factor 2
>> antisocial
>> behaviors) and doesn't tap the affective/interpersonal dimensions
>> (Factor 1 core psychopathic features, narcissism) of psychopathy.
>> Further, criminals and APDs tend to "age out" of crime; psychopaths do
>> not, and are at high risk of recidivism. Psychopaths love to
>> intellectualize in
>> treatment with their half-baked understanding of rules. Like the Star
>> Trek character, Spock, their reasoning cannot handle any mix of
>> cognition and emotion. They are calculating predators who, when
>> trapped, will attempt escape, create a nuisance and danger to staff,
>> be a disruptive influence
>> on other patients or inmates, and fake symptoms to get transferred,
>> bouncing back and forth between institutions. The common features of
>> psychopathic traits (the PCL-R items) are:
>>
>> List of Common Psychopathic Traits
>>
>> Glib and superficial charm; Grandiose sense of self-worth; Need for
>> stimulation; Pathological lying; Conning and manipulativeness; Lack of
>> remorse or guilt; Shallow affect; Callousness and lack of empathy;
>> Parasitic lifestyle; Poor behavioral controls; Promiscuous sexual
>> behavior; Early behavior problems; Lack of realistic, long-term goals;
>> Impulsivity; Irresponsibility; Failure to accept responsibility for
>> own actions;
>> Many short-term marital relationships; Juvenile delinquency;
>> Revocation of
>> conditional release; Criminal versatility In addition to these most
>> well-known types, there have been criminologists who have put forward
>> additional constructs. They are only mentioned here because of their
>> relevance to serial criminals, and the interesting similarity in the
>> way they compare to the FBI's "disorganized - organized" typology
>>
>> EPISODIC AGGRESSION AND SOCIOPATHY COMPARED
>>
>> Disorganized Episodic Aggression: Organized Sociopathic Hatred:
>> Ritualistic behavior Superficial charm and "good" intelligence
>> Attempts to conceal mental instability Absence of delusions and other
>> signs of irrational behavior Compulsivity Absence of "nervousness" or
>> psychoneurotic manifestations Periodic search for help unreliability
>> Severe memory disorders and an inability to tell the truth
>> untruthfulness and insincerity
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy Suicidal tendencies
>> lack of remorse or shame History of committing assault inadequately
>> motivated antisocial behavior Hypersexuality and abnormal sexual
>> behavior
>> poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Head injuries;
>> injuries suffered at birth pathological egocentricity and incapacity
>> for love
>> History of chronic drug or alcohol abuse general poverty in major
>> affective reactions Parents with history of chronic drug or alcohol
>> abuse specific loss of insight Victim of childhood physical or mental
>> abuse unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations Result of an
>> unwanted pregnancy fantastic and uninviting behavior with and
>> sometimes without drink Product of a difficult gestation for mother
>> suicide rarely carried out Unhappiness in childhood resulted in
>> inability
>> to find happiness --- life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
>> Extraordinary cruelty to animals failure to follow any life plan
>> Attraction to arson without homicidal interest Symptoms of
>> neurological impairment Evidence of genetic disorder Biochemical
>> symptoms
>> Feelings of powerlessness and inadequacy
>> The patterns of episodic aggressive behavior scale is derived from
>> Joel Norris (1990) Serial Killers, London: Arrow Books and also
>> reproduced in Brian Lane & Wilfred Gregg (1992) The Encyclopedia of
>> Serial Killers, NY: Berkeley Books. This particular sociopathic
>> checklist is found
>> in numerous places but extensively featured in both of Samenow's works
>> in the 1970s on criminal personality (thinking errors).
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
>> The diagnosis of APD has long been controversial. The criteria for it
>> seem to change with each and every new edition of the Diagnostic and
>> Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I 1968; DSM-II 1976;
>> DSM-III 1980; DSM-III-R 1987; DSM-IV 1994). The diagnosis was
>> substantially
>> changed with DSM-III when the APA decided to distinguish between child
>> and adult characteristics, and essentially substituted behavioral
>> criteria (like truancy or law violations) for personality criteria
>> (like callousness and selfishness). In the DSM-III-R (R for Revised),
>> the focus
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>> was on violence and a list of violent acts (fighting, cruelty to
>> others, cruelty to animals). The current DSM-IV approach essentially
>> says that anything which is not sociopathy, psychopathy or dyssocial
>> personality disorder is antisocial personality disorder, but there is
>> considerable overlap.
>> The diagnostic possibilities are endless; there are at least 3 million
>> possible variations of symptoms on at least 62 different measurable
>> items.
>> Ongoing research is quite prolific into the factor or principal
>> components analysis of APD characteristics. Most forensic experts
>> believe there are 3-4 factors (groupings of symptoms).
>> One factor involves symptoms that cluster around what might be called
>> a Lack of Planning (promiscuous, irresponsible, impulsive traits and
>> behavior). Another factor clusters around the notion of Disregard for
>> Others. A third factor is clearly related to Adult Criminality. A
>> fourth
>> factor is clearly related to Juvenile Delinquency. Impulsivity appears
>> to be a prototypical (core) feature, but it can take many forms.
>> Definitions of impulsivity are numerous -- a tendency to act
>> without reflection; dysfunctional information processing; a tendency
>> for risk taking; sensation seeking; and an inability to sustain
>> attention. Rating scales are easily available to measure these.
>> The incidence of APD is twice as high for inner-city residents than in
>> small towns or rural areas, and five times higher in males than in
>> females. It affects people in all social classes, but if someone with
>> APD is born into a family of wealth and privilege, they will usually
>> manage to seek out a successful business or political career. Poorer
>> people with APD tend to wind up in state prison systems.
>> Since African-Americans are seven times more likely to be represented
>> in state prison systems, it's tempting to speculate the incidence of
>> APD among African-Americans is high.
>> However, there are most likely other causes of crime among
>> African-Americans (like unemployment and racism). The fact is that
>> most of the current prison population, white or black, shares the APD
>> diagnosis. All it takes is a juvenile record, an adult offense career,
>> aggressivity,
>> impulsivity, a checkered work history, and/or lack of demonstrable
>> repentance. These can be easily found in almost any prison inmate's
>> dossier.
>> One of the things closely related to APD is the comorbidity of
>> alcoholism and narcotic addiction.
>> Some of the criteria for a substance abuse disorder are very similar:
>> theft, hazardous behavior, failure to fulfill role functions in home,
>> school, and work. A strong correlation exists between substance abuse
>> and factor 2 (antisocial behaviors) of the psychopathy construct. APDs
>> with a drug addiction have some serious substance abuse problems --
>> the kind that lead to death by overdose or accident within five years.
>> Are APD and narcotic addiction part of the same disorder, does one
>> lead to the other, or are they are spuriously linked together? From
>> what little
>> research there is, it appears that most of the time, APD precedes
>> narcotic addiction, although some of the time, addiction leads to APD
>> behaviors. People with such comorbid characteristics also usually have
>> undiagnosed other Axis I and Axis II disorders.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOPATH
>>
>> From the wild Irish slums of the 19th Century Eastern seaboard to the
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy neighborhoods of
>> Los Angeles, our society has always produced sociopaths who are quite
>> often the products of illegitimacy, broken homes, and a lack of any
>> bonding with male or societal authority. Some 70% of sociopaths come
>> from fatherless homes. Father absence produces many consequences
>> similar to the symptoms of sociopathy -- early, precocious sexuality;
>> antagonistic, deprecating attitude toward the opposite ---; lack of
>> interest in bonding with a durable, stable mate; aggressive
>> acting-out; excessive boasting; and risk-taking behavior. Some 30% of
>> children today are born out-of-wedlock, and another 30% live in
>> divorced homes. These conditions - a problem of unsocialization -
>> produce sociopathy. Furthermore, sociopaths tend to reproduce
>> themselves, that is, they produce more than own their share of
>> illegitimate offspring themselves.
>> So what is a sociopath? You won't find criteria in the DSM IV or
>> official psychiatric nomenclature, but the construct refers to the
>> largest subgroup of APDs. Most are males, but an increasing number are
>> female. They have otherwise normal temperaments (as opposed to
>> psychopaths who have abnormal temperaments). Some are aggressive,
>> fearless sensation seekers, and others are Machiavellian manipulators.
>> A Machiavellian is a personality type who is a cross between an
>> antisocial personality and a narcissist, and someone who also has an
>> extremely high sense of entitlement. The one thing that all sociopaths
>> have in common is that they are "too much" to handle for their parents
>> or anyone else. It's common to refer to them as unsocialized, but the
>> dyssocial sociopath does socialize to the mores and values of a
>> dyssocial outgroup, like a gang. Let's explore the four (4) subtypes
>> of sociopaths:
>>
>> COMMON SOCIOPATHS are the largest subtype and have a weak or
>> unelaborated
>> conscience. They are not ashamed by the same things as you or I would
>> be ashamed of. They are like feral children grown up, taking pleasures
>> and gratifying impulses at every opportunity or temptation. They
>> especially enjoy and take pride in bending or breaking the rules. As
>> teenagers,
>> they are often runaways. As adults, they are often geographically
>> mobile, living in shelters, or taking advantage of welfare systems.
>> They are experienced shoplifters. They have quite active --- lives.
>> They are usually of average intelligence, but don't do well in school
>> and never seem to break out of low-paying dead-end jobs. Nevertheless,
>> they seem genuinely happy with their lives, unburdened by any sense of
>> negative self-worth or the fact that they have not been a functional,
>> contributing member of society.
>>
>> ALIENATED SOCIOPATHS have never developed the ability to love,
>> empathize, or affiliate in real life with another person. They will
>> show more emotion toward their pet or a personal artifact than toward
>> a person. Or, they may hate animals and live out their emotional life
>> by watching TV
>> (identification with soap opera characters is a common pattern).
>> Dating and marriage relationships will be very barren and empty. They
>> won't get along with the neighbors. They live in a shell. They have a
>> cold, callous attitude toward human suffering or any social problem in
>> the society they live in. They just don't care because it's outside
>> their range of empathy. Most will believe they are justified in this
>> because they feel they were cheated in some way themselves by society,
>> and a few will be more than happy to rant and rave about it to anyone
>> who listens. They
>> are chronic complainers, and underneath it all, they would like to see
>> nothing better than all of society destroyed.
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy AGGRESSIVE
>> SOCIOPATHS derive strong, yet nonperverse gratification from harming
>> others.
>> They like to hurt, frighten, tyrannize, bully, and manipulate. They do
>> it for a sense of power and control, and will often only drop subtle
>> hints about what they are up to. They polish their aggressive,
>> domineering manner in such a way to disguise any intimidation others
>> might feel.
>> They seek out positions of power, such as parent, teacher, bureaucrat,
>> supervisor, or police officer.
>> Their style is one of passive aggression as they systematically go
>> about sabotaging the ideas of others to get their ideas in place. In
>> their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things
>> like find stray dogs and cut them up. They are usually effective at
>> getting their way, and are especially vindictive if resisted or
>> crossed. They don't follow the social norm of reciprocity like others
>> do.
>>
>> DYSSOCIAL SOCIOPATHS identify and hold an allegiance with a dyssocial,
>> outcast, or predatory subculture. Any subculture will do, as long as
>> it runs counter to established authority.
>> They are capable of intense loyalty, and even a feeling of guilt and
>> shame, within such limited circles. They seem to continually fall upon
>> bad luck and bad companions, however. While they will constantly
>> complain that none of this is their fault, behind it all is a kind of
>> self-defeating
>> mechanism in the poor choices they made themselves.
>>
>> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE PSYCHOPATH
>> Psychopaths cannot be understood in terms of antisocial rearing or
>> development. They are simply morally depraved individuals who
>> represent the "monsters" in our society. They are unstoppable and
>> untreatable predators whose violence is planned, purposeful and
>> emotionless.
>> The violence continues until it reaches a plateau at age 50 or so,
>> then tapers off. Their emotionlessness reflects a detached, fearless,
>> and possibly dissociated state, revealing a lower autonomic nervous
>> system and lack of anxiety. It's difficult to say what motivates them
>> - control
>> and dominance possibly - since their life history will usually show no
>> bonds with others nor much rhyme to their reason (other than the
>> planning of violence). They tend to operate with a grandiose demeanor,
>> an attitude of entitlement, an insatiable appetite, and a tendency
>> toward sadism.
>> Fearlessness is probably the prototypical (core) characteristic (the
>> low-fear hypothesis). It's helpful to think of them as high-speed
>> vehicles with ineffective brakes. Certain organic (brain) disorders
>> and hormonal imbalances mimic the state of mind of a psychopath.
>> There are four (4) different subtypes of psychopaths. The oldest
>> distinction was made by Cleckley back in 1941 between primary and
>> secondary. However, we'll explore the other two subtypes first:
>>
>> DISTEMPERED PSYCHOPATHS are the kind that seem to fly into a rage or
>> frenzy more easily and more often than other subtypes. Their frenzy
>> will resemble an epileptic fit. They are also usually men with
>> incredibly strong --- drives, capable of astonishing feats of sexual
>> energy,
>> and seemingly obsessed by sexual urges during a large part of their
>> waking lives. Powerful
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>> cravings also seem to characterize them, as in drug
>> addiction,kleptomania, pedophilia, any illicit or illegal indulgence.
>> They like the endorphin "high" or "rush" off of excitement and
>> risk-taking.
>> The serial-rapist-murderer known as the Boston Strangler was such a
>> psychopath.
>>
>> CHARISMATIC PSYCHOPATHS are charming, attractive liars. They are
>> usually gifted at some talent or another, and they use it to their
>> advantage in manipulating others. They are usually fast-talkers, and
>> possess an almost demonic ability to persuade others out of everything
>> they own, even their lives. Leaders of religious sects or cults, for
>> example, might be psychopaths if they lead their followers to their
>> deaths. This subtype often comes to believe in their own fictions.
>> They are irresistible.
>>
>> PRIMARY PSYCHOPATHS do not respond to punishment, apprehension,
>> stress, or disapproval.
>> They seem to be able to inhibit their antisocial impulses most of the
>> time, not because of conscience, but because it suits their purpose at
>> the time. Words do not seem to have the same meaning for them as they
>> do for us. In fact, it's unclear if they even grasp the meaning of
>> their
>> own words, a condition that Cleckley called "semantic aphasia." They
>> don't follow any life plan, and it seems as if they are incapable of
>> experiencing any genuine emotion.
>>
>> SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHS are risk-takers, but are also more likely to be
>> stress-reactive, worriers, and guilt-prone. They expose themselves to
>> more stress than the average person, but they are as vulnerable to
>> stress as the average person. They are daring, adventurous,
>> unconventional people who began playing by their own rules early in
>> life. They are strongly driven by a desire to escape or avoid pain,
>> but are unable to resist temptation. As their anxiety increases toward
>> some forbidden object, so does their attraction to it. They live their
>> lives by the lure of
>> temptation.
>> Hare's PCL-R 20-item checklist is based on Cleckley's 16-item
>> checklist, and the following is a discussion of the concepts in the
>> PCL-R:
>>
>> 1. GLIB and SUPERFICIAL CHARM -- the tendency to be smooth, engaging,
>> charming, slick, and verbally facile. Psychopathic charm is not in the
>> least shy, self-conscious, or afraid to say anything. A psychopath
>> never gets tongue-tied. They have freed themselves from the social
>> conventions about taking turns in talking, for example.
>>
>> 2. GRANDIOSE SELF-WORTH -- a grossly inflated view of one's abilities
>> and self-worth, selfassured, opinionated, cocky, a braggart.
>> Psychopaths are arrogant people who believe they are superior human
>> beings.
>>
>> 3. NEED FOR STIMULATION or PRONENESS TO BOREDOM -- an excessive need
>> for novel, thrilling, and exciting stimulation; taking chances and
>> doing things that are risky. Psychopaths often have a low
>> self-discipline in carrying tasks through to completion because they
>> get bored easily.
>> They fail to work at the same job for any length of time, for example,
>> or to finish tasks that
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>> or routine.
>>
>> 4. PATHOLOGICAL LYING -- can be moderate or high; in moderate form,
>> they will be shrewd, crafty, cunning, sly, and clever; in extreme
>> form, they will be deceptive, deceitful, underhanded, unscrupulous,
>> manipulative, and dishonest.
>>
>> 5. CONNING AND MANIPULATIVENESS- the use of deceit and deception to
>> cheat, con, or defraud others for personal gain; distinguished from
>> Item #4 in the degree to which exploitation and callous ruthlessness
>> is present, as reflected in a lack of concern for the feelings and
>> suffering of one's victims.
>>
>> 6. LACK OF REMORSE OR GUILT -- a lack of feelings or concern for the
>> losses, pain, and suffering of victims; a tendency to be unconcerned,
>> dispassionate, coldhearted, and unempathic.
>> This item is usually demonstrated by a disdain for one's victims.
>>
>> 7. SHALLOW AFFECT -- emotional poverty or a limited range or depth of
>> feelings; interpersonal coldness in spite of signs of open
>> gregariousness.
>>
>> 8. CALLOUSNESS and LACK OF EMPATHY -- a lack of feelings toward people
>> in general; cold, contemptuous, inconsiderate, and tactless.
>>
>> 9. PARASITIC LIFESTYLE -- an intentional, manipulative, selfish, and
>> exploitative financial dependence on others as reflected in a lack of
>> motivation, low self-discipline, and inability to begin or complete
>> responsibilities.
>>
>> 10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability,
>> annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse;
>> inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.
>>
>> 11. PROMISCUOUS SEXUAL BEHAVIOR -- a variety of brief, superficial
>> relations, numerous affairs, and an indiscriminate selection of sexual
>> partners; the maintenance of several relationships at the same time; a
>> history of attempts to sexually coerce others into sexual activity
>> or taking great pride at discussing sexual exploits or conquests.
>>
>> 12. EARLY BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS -- a variety of behaviors prior to age 13,
>> including lying, theft, cheating, vandalism, bullying, sexual
>> activity, fire-setting, glue-sniffing, alcohol use, and running away
>> from home.
>>
>> 13. LACK OF REALISTIC, LONG-TERM GOALS -- an inability or persistent
>> failure to develop and execute long-term plans and goals; a nomadic
>> existence, aimless, lacking direction in life.
>>
>> 14. IMPULSIVITY -- the occurrence of behaviors that are unpremeditated
>> and lack reflection or planning; inability to resist temptation,
>> frustrations, and urges; a lack of deliberation without
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>> Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy considering the
>> consequences; foolhardy, rash, unpredictable, erratic, and reckless.
>>
>> 15. IRRESPONSIBILITY -- repeated failure to fulfill or honor
>> obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on
>> loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing
>> to honor contractual agreements.
>>
>> 16. FAILURE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR OWN ACTIONS -- a failure to
>> accept responsibility for one's actions reflected in low
>> conscientiousness, an absence of dutifulness, antagonistic
>> manipulation, denial of responsibility, and an effort to manipulate
>> others through this
>> denial.
>>
>> 17. MANY SHORT-TERM MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS -- a lack of commitment to a
>> long-term relationship reflected in inconsistent, undependable, and
>> unreliable commitments in life, including marital.
>>
>> 18. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY -- behavior problems between the ages of
>> 13-18; mostly behaviors that are crimes or clearly involve aspects of
>> antagonism, exploitation, aggression, manipulation, or a callous,
>> ruthless tough-mindedness.
>>
>> 19. REVOCATION OF CONDITION RELEASE -- a revocation of probation or
>> other conditional release due to technical violations, such as
>> carelessness, low deliberation, or failing to appear.
>>
>> 20. CRIMINAL VERSATILITY -- a diversity of types of criminal offenses,
>> regardless if the person has been arrested or convicted for them;
>> taking great pride at getting away with crimes.
>>
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There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
other accusations would be thrown out of court.
When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
man??????????
People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
suggest!!!!!
If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
Sheriffs Department.
I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
contradicts it's self.
You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
24bit:
12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
LW------@------.net
Sincerely,
Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
the top of your groups! :-)
The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
coward.
BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
:-)
I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
******* like would think of.
That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
------.
Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
Where'd you find that babbling?????
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
news:2i6bh3ltlk1nmbisi5ibouk0kp6287r9fc@4ax.com...
>
>
> Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
> Norman Doidge
> National Post
> What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
> every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
>
> That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
> illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
> offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
> Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
> All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
> "offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
> found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
> behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
> likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
> Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
>
> The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
> -- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
> than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
> in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
> our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
> appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
> since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
> treatments really psychotherapy?
>
> Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
> self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
> Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
> because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
> psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
> concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
> which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
> concern by definition.
>
> But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
> on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
> co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
> new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
> psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
> moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
> Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
> that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
>
> Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
> clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
> Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
> something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
> prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
> Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
> community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
> psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
>
> The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
> To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
> miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
> short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
> eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
>
> I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
> boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
> other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
> a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
> self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
> raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
> or "negative tapes" in her head.
>
> Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
> ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
> backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
> consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
> of mankind how to be remorseless.
>
> But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
> of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
> sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
> force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
> with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
> prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
> carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
> choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
> be practised.
>
> So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
> 1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
> crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
> just say they are beyond therapy.
>
> That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
> psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
> low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
> intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
> evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
> treatment.
>
> The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
> mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
> forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
> unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
>
> In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
> hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
> person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
> we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
> soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
> always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
> control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
> is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
> bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
> virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
> "conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
> that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
> physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
> shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
> functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
> notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
> into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
> by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
>
over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
other accusations would be thrown out of court.
When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
man??????????
People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
suggest!!!!!
If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
Sheriffs Department.
I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
contradicts it's self.
You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
24bit:
12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
LW------@------.net
Sincerely,
Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
the top of your groups! :-)
The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
coward.
BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
:-)
I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
******* like would think of.
That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
------.
Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
Where'd you find that babbling?????
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
news:2i6bh3ltlk1nmbisi5ibouk0kp6287r9fc@4ax.com...
>
>
> Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
> Norman Doidge
> National Post
> What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
> every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
>
> That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
> illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
> offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
> Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
> All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
> "offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
> found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
> behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
> likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
> Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
>
> The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
> -- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
> than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
> in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
> our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
> appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
> since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
> treatments really psychotherapy?
>
> Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
> self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
> Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
> because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
> psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
> concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
> which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
> concern by definition.
>
> But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
> on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
> co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
> new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
> psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
> moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
> Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
> that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
>
> Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
> clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
> Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
> something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
> prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
> Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
> community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
> psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
>
> The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
> To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
> miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
> short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
> eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
>
> I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
> boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
> other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
> a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
> self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
> raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
> or "negative tapes" in her head.
>
> Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
> ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
> backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
> consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
> of mankind how to be remorseless.
>
> But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
> of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
> sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
> force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
> with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
> prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
> carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
> choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
> be practised.
>
> So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
> 1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
> crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
> just say they are beyond therapy.
>
> That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
> psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
> low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
> intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
> evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
> treatment.
>
> The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
> mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
> forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
> unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
>
> In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
> hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
> person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
> we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
> soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
> always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
> control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
> is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
> bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
> virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
> "conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
> that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
> physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
> shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
> functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
> notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
> into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
> by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
>
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Minimum speed for cruise control
There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
other accusations would be thrown out of court.
When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
man??????????
People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
suggest!!!!!
If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
Sheriffs Department.
I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
contradicts it's self.
You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
24bit:
12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
LW------@------.net
Sincerely,
Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
the top of your groups! :-)
The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
coward.
BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
:-)
I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
******* like would think of.
That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
------.
Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
Where'd you find that babbling?????
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
news:2i6bh3ltlk1nmbisi5ibouk0kp6287r9fc@4ax.com...
>
>
> Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
> Norman Doidge
> National Post
> What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
> every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
>
> That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
> illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
> offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
> Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
> All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
> "offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
> found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
> behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
> likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
> Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
>
> The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
> -- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
> than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
> in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
> our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
> appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
> since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
> treatments really psychotherapy?
>
> Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
> self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
> Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
> because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
> psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
> concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
> which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
> concern by definition.
>
> But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
> on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
> co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
> new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
> psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
> moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
> Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
> that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
>
> Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
> clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
> Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
> something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
> prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
> Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
> community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
> psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
>
> The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
> To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
> miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
> short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
> eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
>
> I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
> boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
> other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
> a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
> self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
> raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
> or "negative tapes" in her head.
>
> Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
> ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
> backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
> consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
> of mankind how to be remorseless.
>
> But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
> of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
> sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
> force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
> with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
> prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
> carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
> choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
> be practised.
>
> So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
> 1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
> crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
> just say they are beyond therapy.
>
> That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
> psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
> low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
> intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
> evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
> treatment.
>
> The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
> mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
> forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
> unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
>
> In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
> hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
> person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
> we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
> soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
> always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
> control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
> is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
> bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
> virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
> "conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
> that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
> physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
> shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
> functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
> notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
> into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
> by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
>
over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
other accusations would be thrown out of court.
When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
man??????????
People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
suggest!!!!!
If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
Sheriffs Department.
I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
contradicts it's self.
You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
24bit:
12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
LW------@------.net
Sincerely,
Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
the top of your groups! :-)
The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
coward.
BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
:-)
I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
******* like would think of.
That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
------.
Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
Where'd you find that babbling?????
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
news:2i6bh3ltlk1nmbisi5ibouk0kp6287r9fc@4ax.com...
>
>
> Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
> Norman Doidge
> National Post
> What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
> every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
>
> That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
> illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
> offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
> Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
> All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
> "offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
> found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
> behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
> likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
> Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
>
> The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
> -- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
> than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
> in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
> our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
> appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
> since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
> treatments really psychotherapy?
>
> Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
> self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
> Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
> because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
> psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
> concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
> which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
> concern by definition.
>
> But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
> on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
> co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
> new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
> psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
> moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
> Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
> that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
>
> Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
> clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
> Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
> something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
> prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
> Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
> community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
> psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
>
> The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
> To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
> miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
> short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
> eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
>
> I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
> boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
> other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
> a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
> self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
> raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
> or "negative tapes" in her head.
>
> Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
> ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
> backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
> consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
> of mankind how to be remorseless.
>
> But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
> of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
> sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
> force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
> with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
> prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
> carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
> choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
> be practised.
>
> So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
> 1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
> crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
> just say they are beyond therapy.
>
> That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
> psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
> low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
> intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
> evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
> treatment.
>
> The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
> mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
> forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
> unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
>
> In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
> hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
> person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
> we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
> soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
> always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
> control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
> is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
> bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
> virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
> "conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
> that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
> physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
> shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
> functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
> notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
> into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
> by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
>
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Minimum speed for cruise control
There you go again, the little Psychopath, jealous, REALLY JEALOUS,
over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
other accusations would be thrown out of court.
When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
man??????????
People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
suggest!!!!!
If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
Sheriffs Department.
I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
contradicts it's self.
You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
24bit:
12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
LW------@------.net
Sincerely,
Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
the top of your groups! :-)
The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
coward.
BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
:-)
I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
******* like would think of.
That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
------.
Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
Where'd you find that babbling?????
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"24Bit®" <24Bit@Ur.Asylm.org> wrote in message
news:2i6bh3ltlk1nmbisi5ibouk0kp6287r9fc@4ax.com...
>
>
> Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
> Norman Doidge
> National Post
> What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
> every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
>
> That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
> illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
> offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
> Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
> All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
> "offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
> found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
> behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
> likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
> Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
>
> The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
> -- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
> than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
> in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
> our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
> appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
> since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
> treatments really psychotherapy?
>
> Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
> self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
> Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
> because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
> psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
> concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
> which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
> concern by definition.
>
> But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
> on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
> co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
> new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
> psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
> moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
> Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
> that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
>
> Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
> clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
> Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
> something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
> prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
> Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
> community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
> psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
>
> The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
> To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
> miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
> short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
> eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
>
> I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
> boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
> other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
> a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
> self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
> raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
> or "negative tapes" in her head.
>
> Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
> ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
> backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
> consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
> of mankind how to be remorseless.
>
> But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
> of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
> sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
> force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
> with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
> prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
> carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
> choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
> be practised.
>
> So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
> 1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
> crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
> just say they are beyond therapy.
>
> That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
> psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
> low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
> intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
> evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
> treatment.
>
> The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
> mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
> forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
> unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
>
> In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
> hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
> person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
> we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
> soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
> always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
> control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
> is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
> bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
> virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
> "conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
> that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
> physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
> shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
> functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
> notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
> into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
> by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
>
over the fact that I once own a '37 Lasalle, ranting over my documents,
possessions, successes, manliness, Super Southern California surfer body,
Christian family, and name. What a jealous little draft dodging senile
coward from 12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT, Mediacom
Communications Corp MEDIACOMCC-12-205-156-0-GULF-BREEZE-Florida, that of
course, doesn't have a DD214, it had to have served our country for that.
Who's only way to get attention is to make a fool of its self, with its goat
obsession/fetish, where it writes via remailers, to no one's surprise. Like
when the other kids laughed at its attempt to use foul language in
elementary school play grounds, but its just gibberish. Too senile to
remember what he last wrote, like the rest of Florida. You remind me of a
little rat dog, like a Mexican Chiwawa with its senseless barking it's rabid
head off, me too, me too. And is too afraid to use your name, address, or
even sign your statement as any man would, totally worthless!
Posted pornography at: news:0u7g43dkje4pdkqi07hl66s8kpifo564k1@4ax.com
As a member of the moral majority I know what ---- is when I see it!
But now worth the time to forward this low life to: abuse@mchsi.com,
fraud@mchsi.com, fraud@4AX.COM, abuse@aioe.org, admin@***.net,
abuse@teranews.com for forgery.
I thought your attacks were just personal disagreements, but with
passing of my country's Independents Day, I realize these attacks are
stemming from my love of God and America, and that's what you've been doing
all along is declaring your hatred for the United States of America, with
each declaration of my signature, but just too cowardly to be a ---------.
It's America, love it, or leave it, so get the f*ck out!
Considering the source, which you're a habitual lair, so these plus your
other accusations would be thrown out of court.
When are you going to take responsibility for yourself, and become a
man??????????
People that follow astrology, know the traits you have listed are a
hundred eighty out from any Capricorn.
Forwarded to: alt.binaries.pictures.autos, alt.binaries.automobile.pictures
groups so they may to see what an a**hole you really are!!!!!
Is this what your Psychologist wrote about you? They don't fit any
Capricorn, sounds like a spoil Leo.
You're a LIAR and never been in the Service much less Vietnam, as you
suggest!!!!!
If you think I'm a Psycho, then report me to my friends at the San Diego
Sheriffs Department.
I'm just really curious as to who you think will believe you over any
man responsible enough to list his name and address here and in every place
I know of????? All you can do is lie, as most everything you have said
contradicts it's self.
You know what they say, once a ------ coward, always a ------ coward.
I won't give up until traitors like you are gone from these groups I
participate and see you've pretty well killed this group I will devote my
life to reminding your groups who you are!!!!!!!
I would appreciate the name and address of these trolls, Square Wheel:
S0106000ea6ba70e7.vn.shawcable.net 24.86.24.251 intrepidator@shaw.ca and
24bit:
12.205.158.32 AT&T WorldNet Services ATT Mediacom Communications Corp. I
will keep your name in confidence, kindly email -------------------- or
LW------@------.net
Sincerely,
Llewellyn W. (Bill) ------ III
You're not fooling anyone, ------! You need to get back in the hospital
before you hurt yourself or someone else.
Oh, and thanks for keeping my fight against troll/******* like you at
the top of your groups! :-)
The only reason you write me is to try to put down my friends and my
Lord Jesus Christ. Well try as you may you're not strong enough for that,
coward.
BTW I put up a couple more of my friends cars for you to be jealous of.
:-)
I happen to know you've been locked in a rubber room, laced in a
straight jacket. Time for lights out at your insane asylum again.
Fortunately it is against the law for you to own a firearm.
There you go with that psychopathic goat obsession/fetish, that only
******* like would think of.
That's what I've said, it's common knowledge you're a schizophrenic
------.
Hehehe I've got your user name blocked over at: Motzarella.
Where'd you find that babbling?????
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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>
> Beyond therapy: Some evil can't be cured
> Norman Doidge
> National Post
> What, other than our wish that it be otherwise, makes us think that
> every human vice is treatable by some form of psychotherapy?
>
> That this wish is not just naive, but, at times, harmful is
> illustrated by a recent Canadian study on group treatment for 238 ---
> offenders (rapists, incest offenders) from Warkworth penitentiary in
> Ontario. These prisoners included some well-documented psychopaths.
> All were taught to "empathize" with victims, and understand their
> "offence cycle" as part of treatment. After their release, it was
> found that those who had scored highest in terms of "good treatment
> behaviour" and who had the highest "empathy" scores were the more
> likely to reoffend on release into the community. Hannibal Lecter
> Charm School teaches good manners, but not morals.
>
> The important study by Seto and Barbaree replicated -- unintentionally
> -- a 1992 Canadian study that found treated psychopaths reoffend more
> than psychopaths who are not treated. A larger study, just completed
> in Britain, shows the same. It may be that all psychopaths learn, in
> our new ersatz empathy institutes, is how to manipulate better by
> appearing more caring. But should we be surprised at the duplicity,
> since such treatments are generally mandated? And are such mandated
> treatments really psychotherapy?
>
> Just because a self-described "patient" is in a room with a
> self-described "therapist" doesn't mean psychotherapy is going on.
> Freud argued psychopaths are untreatable in psychotherapy precisely
> because having a conscience is a prerequisite for being able to use
> psychotherapy. It is the conscience, and the related capacity for
> concern for others, that drives the serious scrutiny of one's motives,
> which underlie one's behaviour. Yet psychopaths lack conscience and
> concern by definition.
>
> But these new psychopath-friendly treatments focus only superficially
> on motives or matters of good faith by tracking attendance and overt
> co-operativeness. Mostly they focus on impulse control and teaching
> new behaviours and mindsets. Past naive, they hope that because a
> psychopath can appear remorseful, or change his behaviour at any given
> moment, his overall mindset or deeper intentions will follow suit.
> Three cheers for us: We have invented treatments based on theories
> that are less complex than the impoverished minds of psychopaths.
>
> Psychotherapy doesn't just require a good theory and an astute
> clinician. It also requires a patient. The word patient comes from
> Latin, and means "to suffer." A patient, by definition, is bothered by
> something. Yet most treatments of prisoners originate not from the
> prisoner's suffering, but are mandated by the justice system.
> Corrections Canada knows many psychopaths will be released into the
> community eventually, so it attempts to change them, even though any
> psychotherapy for adults that has to be mandated is suspect.
>
> The "treatment" reported on in the Canadian study lasted 300 sessions.
> To their credit, the treaters didn't believe they could work their
> miracles overnight. Yet, more and more, mandated treatments are
> short-term: eight to 10 sessions. Most people can't quit smoking in
> eight to 10 sessions, never mind do a Karla Homolka make over.
>
> I refer here to the same Karla Homolka who expressed concern for her
> boyfriend's happiness by helping him kill her sister and a number of
> other young girls, and who is reported recently to have benefited from
> a self-esteem course in prison. Such courses, which presume
> self-esteem can be taught, generally involve telling a person she can
> raise her esteem in her own eyes by interrupting their self-reproaches
> or "negative tapes" in her head.
>
> Applying these self-esteem techniques to psychopaths requires an
> ability to get everything about the psychotherapeutic enterprise
> backwards. Psychopaths don't need lessons in clearing their
> consciences; if anything, it is they who ought to be teaching the rest
> of mankind how to be remorseless.
>
> But mushy-gushy therapy is not just confined to therapists. It is part
> of a dangerous denial of the nature of psychopathy and evil that is
> sweeping through our correctional services. A recent federal task
> force on security, released on Nov. 2, advised getting rid of guards
> with guns, unseemly razor-wire fences and intimidating towers around
> prisons (National Post, Dec. 15). It even advised that inmates should
> carry the keys to their own cells so they could make "responsible
> choices." "Restorative justice" based on "a culture of respect" would
> be practised.
>
> So here is a respectful way of framing things. Psychopaths constitute
> 1% of the population, but are so talented they conduct 50% of all
> crimes. Since it might be hurtful to say they are incurable, let's
> just say they are beyond therapy.
>
> That much said, surprising as it sounds, not all --- offenders are
> psychopaths; some, who have been involved in incest, apparently have
> low rates of reoffending. Some may benefit, at times, from long-term
> intensive interventions and monitoring. But there is no empirical
> evidence that --- offenders who are psychopaths benefit from
> treatment.
>
> The federal report is a miscarriage of justice, and a miscarriage of
> mercy. It is based on a distortion of religious notions of
> forgiveness, political notions of equality, a scientific zeal and an
> unwillingness to make basic distinctions.
>
> In ancient times, Aristotle made those distinctions, and developed a
> hierarchy of virtue and vice. At the top of the ladder is the virtuous
> person, who only aims toward good things; he is not "conflicted," as
> we would say, because there is no war between virtue and vice in his
> soul. Next, comes the continent person, who behaves well, but is
> always a bit tense because he is struggling, albeit successfully, to
> control his vices. Then comes the incontinent person, who knows what
> is right, but who frequently slips up, failing in his struggle. At the
> bottom of the hierarchy is the brute -- our psychopath. Like the
> virtuous person, he, too, is not at war with himself, is not
> "conflicted." Unlike the virtuous person, it is vice, and not virtue,
> that rules. Aristotle thought there was something different in the
> physical makeup of such people. Indeed, recent brain scan evidence
> shows some psychopaths do have altered brain structure and
> functioning. Our mistake (based on mindless extrapolations of our
> notion of political equality) is to collapse all these distinctions
> into the continent or incontinent categories. Indeed, we are as irked
> by notions of the virtuous as we are of the vicious.
>
