Why Do Traumatic Events Cause Psychopathy?

Traumatic Events Cause Psychopathy in Children Traumatic events in early childhood can cause a child to develop psychopathy. Review of literature indicates that traumatic events in early childhood can cause children to develop personality disorders. One of these disorders is Psychopathy. It is defined as a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc. Psychopathy actually begins in childhood but people don’t usually recognize it as anything because children sometimes have questionable behavior. Most people would never think that children could display psychopathic behavior and do terrible things, but when a child has something terrible happen to them at such a young age it affects them for their entire life. In review of literature these areas of focus will be evaluated:
1. What are Signs of Psychopathy in Children?;
2. What Kind of Events Can Cause Children to Develop Psychopathy?; and
3. What Can be Done to Help Children with Psychopathy?
What are Signs of
Most psychopaths are very good at hiding their behavior until they are confronted about it and you are not able to tell that they are a psychopath by appearance (Richards 2012). This is just like Henry in The Good Son. He hid his psychopathic behavior from everyone very well until mark started catching on and if you met him and just looked at him you would have no idea. Psychopaths can easily deceive people, harm people or animals, can never feel sorry for people, and commit horrible crimes without even thinking about it. They have no remorse and could care less if they hurt someone. We see this displayed by Henry when he kills the dog and when he attempts to kill the cat, his sister, and his