Psychopath Analysis
According to Oxford and MacMillan definitions of Psychopaths: Psychopaths are people with mental disorders which makes them behave violently towards society, but "Not all psychopaths are violent" said Kevin Dutton.
Psychologists say about Psychopaths that they have a distinct set of personality characteristics, which include things like ruthlessness, fearlessness, mental toughness, persuasiveness and a lack of conscience and empathy, but is psychopathy absolute like if someone is psychopathy or not or does it have degrees of psychopathy. Studies say that genetic and non-genetic traits contribute to psychopath, but to pin down the genes that contribute to psychopathy directly maybe a hard task to achieve for the current technology and the correlations
can be hardly driven out of non-genetic traits. Psychopathy has often been considered untreatable, but psychologists and neuroscientists try to diagnose the psychopathy more efficiently and determine the factors that affect psychopathy and thus approach the cure for psychopathy.
Genetic factors may generally influence the development of psychopathy while environmental factors affect the specific traits that predominate. No doubt that, psychopaths hide among us, prevalence rates said that the percentage of them is between 0.2% and 3.3% of the population. A study on a large group of children found more than 60% heritability for "callous-unemotional traits" and that conduct problems among children with these traits had a higher heritability than among children without these traits. On the other hand, environment has some strong factors included having a convicted parent, being physically neglected, low involvement of the father with the boy, and low family income.
The Oxford research psychologists argue that psychopathic personality traits-charm, confidence, ruthlessness, coolness under pressure-can be a good thing. Psychopaths always focus on positive. They don't take things personally. Many psychopaths are very successful lawyers, doctors, CEOs. Therefore they occupy broad and important sectors in society and therefore have a distinct impact on society. A survey was done in 2011 by Amy Crawford. Its result showed that whole range of professions contained psychopaths and no criminals were among them. Civil servants, lawyers, and police officers were also found to be psychopaths according to that survey.
Does psychopathy have a cure? According to specialists in mental health, the answer for that question is no. Experts stated that adult psychopaths may be treated but not cured. Maybe we need to redefine Psychopathy or increase the research in this area or both. The more important question is that are we ourselves psychopaths? And if so: To what extent and does our behavior harm the people close to us?
In conclusion, Neither good nor bad to be a psychopath. Most of psychopaths are dangerous and must be handled cautiously. Not all criminals are psychopaths. Psychopaths are very intelligent. References
Psychopathic Criminals Cannot Be Cured. (2014, August 11). Retrieved November 18, 2015, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201408/psychopathic-criminals-cannot-be-cured
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian. (2012, October 28). Retrieved November 18, 2015, from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-pros-to-being-a-psychopath-96723962/?all
Mallett, X. (2015, July 30). The difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Retrieved November 18, 2015, from http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/the-difference-between-a-psychopath-and-a-sociopath-10422016.html
Psychologists say about Psychopaths that they have a distinct set of personality characteristics, which include things like ruthlessness, fearlessness, mental toughness, persuasiveness and a lack of conscience and empathy, but is psychopathy absolute like if someone is psychopathy or not or does it have degrees of psychopathy. Studies say that genetic and non-genetic traits contribute to psychopath, but to pin down the genes that contribute to psychopathy directly maybe a hard task to achieve for the current technology and the correlations
can be hardly driven out of non-genetic traits. Psychopathy has often been considered untreatable, but psychologists and neuroscientists try to diagnose the psychopathy more efficiently and determine the factors that affect psychopathy and thus approach the cure for psychopathy.
Genetic factors may generally influence the development of psychopathy while environmental factors affect the specific traits that predominate. No doubt that, psychopaths hide among us, prevalence rates said that the percentage of them is between 0.2% and 3.3% of the population. A study on a large group of children found more than 60% heritability for "callous-unemotional traits" and that conduct problems among children with these traits had a higher heritability than among children without these traits. On the other hand, environment has some strong factors included having a convicted parent, being physically neglected, low involvement of the father with the boy, and low family income.
The Oxford research psychologists argue that psychopathic personality traits-charm, confidence, ruthlessness, coolness under pressure-can be a good thing. Psychopaths always focus on positive. They don't take things personally. Many psychopaths are very successful lawyers, doctors, CEOs. Therefore they occupy broad and important sectors in society and therefore have a distinct impact on society. A survey was done in 2011 by Amy Crawford. Its result showed that whole range of professions contained psychopaths and no criminals were among them. Civil servants, lawyers, and police officers were also found to be psychopaths according to that survey.
Does psychopathy have a cure? According to specialists in mental health, the answer for that question is no. Experts stated that adult psychopaths may be treated but not cured. Maybe we need to redefine Psychopathy or increase the research in this area or both. The more important question is that are we ourselves psychopaths? And if so: To what extent and does our behavior harm the people close to us?
In conclusion, Neither good nor bad to be a psychopath. Most of psychopaths are dangerous and must be handled cautiously. Not all criminals are psychopaths. Psychopaths are very intelligent. References
Psychopathic Criminals Cannot Be Cured. (2014, August 11). Retrieved November 18, 2015, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201408/psychopathic-criminals-cannot-be-cured
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian. (2012, October 28). Retrieved November 18, 2015, from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-pros-to-being-a-psychopath-96723962/?all
Mallett, X. (2015, July 30). The difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Retrieved November 18, 2015, from http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/the-difference-between-a-psychopath-and-a-sociopath-10422016.html