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Comment by Maria De Wind on February 7, 2012 at 5:52pm

If the incidence of sociopathy in the US is only 4 percent. How does one explain the remaining 46 % who approve "punishing" Iran ?

plain voting idiots?

Criminals like this are found everywhere but are often rare, why is it that the USA seems to have a larger share? Do you think TV, Movies, Rock Bands are influencing this kind of behavior?  

Comment by ShivaShakti on February 7, 2012 at 5:42pm

I seriously hope that sometime in the near future that marijuana can be used to treat a range of psychiatric anomaly/chronic conditions. There definitely needs to be biopharmeceutical advancements and quickly.

Comment by Cryptocurrency on February 7, 2012 at 4:48pm

I do, cowgirl. Check out the book, "The Sociopath Next Door."

This was my comment on a similar blog you may enjoy reading. Sums up my view:

"The DSM is the the book shrinks turn to to diagnose patients. It is the standard American Psychiatric Association's approved reference for mental health practices in the US. People exhibiting these behaviors are not classified with a mental health illness as "psychopath" it is merely a designation. The correct diagnosis would be antisocial personality disorder that generally means the same thing. Psychopaths and Sociopaths exhibit similar tendencies which is why not all mental health professionals agree on all separate distinctions. I have my own views on this, much of them supported by the video you posted.

One thing is for certain, both exhibit an entire host of antisocial tendencies such as: narcissism or egocentricity and grandiosity, lack of empathy or remorse, emotionally shallow but not necessarily void, conscientiousness making them potentially very calculated; most psychopaths are master manipulators and learned at a very early age how to act and feign emotion. And the empathy they lack is not like a nurse that dissociates feeling at the workplace towards her patients or a soldier on a battle field towards his enemy. Psychopaths experience this in a very general way, therefore, they feel next to no empathy for anyone including family members. Though not totally lacking emotion, what they feel has been described as proto-emotion translating to a responsiveness of mainly base needs. Nearly anything outside of this in terms of an emotional response is pure acting on the part of the psychopath."

Link to original blog Identifying Different Psychopaths

Comment by truth on February 7, 2012 at 4:42pm

Yes, the girl was on anti-depressants.

Comment by cowgirl on February 7, 2012 at 12:53pm

Thanks for the book rec. I just went to his site, and found 'How to Spot Social Predators Before They Attack'.  wish I had read it about 15 years ago.

I had seen the terms used interchangeably in much of my research . Do you differentiate between the two? 

Comment by SJ on February 7, 2012 at 12:46pm

SEE: Without Conscience by Dr. Robert. Hare.

He prefers the term "psychopath," as do I.

sj

Comment by cowgirl on February 7, 2012 at 9:23am

The incidence of sociopathy in the US is 4 percent.  That means one in 25 people you know is likely a sociopath.   To give you an idea of comparison..1 percent of the population is anorexic, yet we hear far more about anorexia.

There is no 'cure'.  Therapy is actually contraindicated because learning of their diagnosis only inspires many sociopaths to become better at manipulating and seeing what they can get away with.  Not all sociopaths are killers, however there are a great number of people walking around out there with absolutely no conscience.  

Comment by Ragnarok on February 7, 2012 at 6:50am

Then i would expect that USA would get the permission to place nuclear warheads here. We have a lot of hidden NATO bases here and 4 Echelon bases. I worked at the most known one as a gardener.

 

 

Comment by Ragnarok on February 7, 2012 at 5:16am

Yea im still inside fortress EU.! And Tommy great idea about the BS-detection dog.

Comment by Marklar on February 7, 2012 at 5:09am

Here you go Tom,...

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