Psychopathic Traits

Doctoral John Clarke, doctorate in psychology from the University of Sydney, Australia, who for years became a criminal psychologist,

remember the day when she was instantly aware that there may be a number of psychopaths in millions of offices around the world. "I'm delivering lectures psychology of crime and provide a list of psychopathic traits. When finished, a woman approached and said "You've just described my boss," he told German news agency (DPA).
Clarke is also author of The Pocket Pscyho which contains a brief guide on how to protect yourself from the organizational psychopath psychopath not only stated that there is in prison, in the courtroom, or in the thriller story. Psychopaths, both men and women, is planning sly at work, around the world. Research suggests that one percent of the adult population are psychopaths who work in places Chenaniah. Psychopath like that exist in large and small office, he is on the board conference room or in the shop floors.


The psychopath in hiding through the lie, cheat, steal, manipulate, sacrifice, and destroy the co-workers. All without guilt or remorse. Deeper, he judges, they are called organizational psychopaths thrive in the business world, because of their ruthlessness and lust is not just their misunderstood as ambition and leadership skills, but also as something that is rewarded through promotions, bonuses and wage increases.

Workplace psychopath will do anything to gain power, status, and the wages they want. "They think like a criminal psychopath. They are pushing hard for the sake of their own. Difference between the two is that criminal psychopaths to destroy the victim physically, while crush the workplace psychopath victims psychologically, "he said.

• Here are some characteristics that may be a sign of psychopathic personality disorder:At first displays an interesting attitude, tend to artificial, charming, and cast a warm attitude. This is what makes people easy to believe, and with the belief that they harm or deceive the victim.
• Consider her the most important and should be privileged, all centered on himself, just for me, just my own, just me and my.
• Treatment often show impulsive (explosive), it is difficult to delay and control emotions. If you have the desire must be now, if not anger or rage.
• Friendships or social relationships are short, frequently changing sexual partners-changing romance or change jobs.
• Often lie, cheat, and betray.
• Lack of responsibility for his actions, brave and risky decision not to learn from experience, are always nested, although it has been given a punishment or warning.
• Less able to feel the feelings of others, no matter what other people suffer.
• Cenderung blame others for what he had done.

Five stages of diagnosing psychopaths

1. Matching the personality of patients with 20 criteria established by Prof. Hare. Matching is done by interviewing the family and the people closest to patients, victims of complaints, or observations of patient behavior over time.
2. Health check by scanning the brain and body using an electroencephalogram, MRI, and a complete medical examination. This was done because according to research images of PET (positron emission tomography) comparing normal individuals, spontaneous killers, and cold-blooded killer planned show differences in brain activity in the prefrontal cortex is low. Frontal lobes of the brain believed to be the parts that make up personality.
3. Interview using DSM-IV (The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version IV), which is considered successful to determine the antisocial personality.
4. Noticed symptoms of the patient's personality. Usually from the age of patients 15 years began to show signs of psychiatric disorders.
5. Doing psychological test. Psychopaths usually have a high IQ.

Psychopathic symptoms

• Often lie, eloquent, and shallow. Psychopaths often clever jokes and smart talk, typically try to come up with knowledge in the field of sociology, psychiatry, medicine, psychology, philosophy, poetry, literature, and others. Often clever story that makes it positive, and when caught lying they do not care and will cover it.
• Egocentric and considers himself great.
• Do not have a sense of regret and guilt. Although sometimes psychopathic confession, he is very underestimated or denied due to his actions and has no reason to care.
• Happy offense and problematic behavior in childhood.
• Antisocial attitudes in adulthood.
• Lack of empathy. For psychopaths cut chicken heads and cut off people's heads, it makes no difference.
• Psychopaths are also firm in acting aggressively, challenging the guts and fight, hours slept late and often out of the house.
• Impulsive and hard to control myself. For psychopaths do not have time to weigh the merits of the action they would do and they do not care what has been done or thought about the future. People with too easily triggered anger in the things of small, easy to react to disappointment, failure, criticism, and easy to attack people just because of trivial things.
• Not able to be responsible and do things for the sake of fun.
• Manipulative and underhanded. Psychopaths are also often shows dramatic emotions even though they are not in earnest. They also do not have a physiological response that is normally associated with fear, such as hand sweating, palpitations, dry mouth, tense, trembling for the psychopaths this does not apply. Thus, psychopaths often referred to as "cold".
• Living as a parasite because it uses other people for pleasure and satisfaction itself.

There are differences between psychopathic personality and antisocial behavior. Differences are indicated by the intensity. Psychopaths continuous, from childhood to senior citizens. Meanwhile, antisocial behavior is only shown at certain moments. Patients are usually male psychopaths, but did not rule suffered by women.

Many reactions occur in society due to ignorance about the healing psychopath. Communities try to protect themselves through legal legislation. In the Netherlands, the Act Antipsikopat launched twice in the 20th century and in 2002. Similarly in the United States, law antipsikopat began in the 1930s aimed at sex offenders.

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