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One such analysis by Smith and Lilienfeld (2015) evaluated 94 experimental samples with a total of 7,340 participants found that the relationship between attention impairment and psychopathy had a statistically significant effect size of 0.20. The authors considered this to be a "small to medium effect."
Famous individuals have sometimes been diagnosed, albeit at a distance, as psychopaths. As one example out of many possible from history, in a 1972 version of a secret report originally prepared for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943, which may have been intended to be used as propaganda, [117] [118] non-medical psychoanalyst Walter C ...
Psychopaths refuse to adopt social and moral norms because they are not swayed by the emotions, such as guilt, remorse, or fear of retribution, that influence other human beings. [ 11 ] Human societies tend to value remorse; conversely, a person who exhibits a lack of remorse is often perceived in a negative light.
Haltlose personality disorder was a type of personality disorder diagnosis largely used in German-, Russian- and French-speaking countries. The German word haltlose refers to being "unstable" (literally: "without footing"), and in English-speaking countries the diagnosis was sometimes referred to as "the unstable psychopath", although it was little known even among experts in psychiatry.
Projection of general guilt: Projection of a severe conscience [28] is another form of defense, one which may be linked to the making of false accusations, personal or political. [22] Projection of hope: Also, in a more positive light, a patient may sometimes project their feelings of hope onto the therapist. [29]
“A person may guilt-trip to emotionally blackmail, avoid change, get their needs met and make one feel inferior. Guilt-trippers have a hard time accepting responsibility for their behavior.
The first edition was published in 1941, with the subtitle then being 'An attempt to re-interpret' rather than as later 'to clarify'. Cleckley says in the preface that the book "grew out of an old conviction which increased during several years while I sat at staff meetings in a large neuropsychiatric hospital".
This was still described in similar terms as the DSM-I's category, for individuals who are "basically unsocialized", in repeated conflicts with society, incapable of significant loyalty, selfish, irresponsible, unable to feel guilt or learn from prior experiences, and tend to blame others and rationalise.