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Yates Psychopath Analysis
I do believe that Yates would have been considered a psychopath. Her actions were deranged and do follow some of the symptoms presented in the textbook. In the textbook it states,”
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by antisocial behavior and by a lack of sympathy, empathy, and embarrassment (83). The lack of sympathy and empathy connects to the murder of her children and her actions as a whole. Her actions also connect to the second type of psychopath the “Distempered psychopath” that are described as, “easily offended and fly into rages even at slight provocations” Yates was though not described as have strong sexual urges or addiction (83). Her violent urges appeared after her first child and it seemed to have caused her

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