Michael Vazquez April 4‚ 2013 Personality in Bret Ellis American Psycho In American Psycho‚ the antihero and of course main character Patrick Bateman shows complete signs of insanity. In reality he is mentally unstable and lacks ability to control his blood-thirst desires. He is deceitful‚ dishonest and disloyal to his fellow co-workers (whom are almost on the same level as himself)‚ his fiancee and of course his victims. His world as we view it depicts him as an intelligent
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The Monster Within By Ramsha Tofique "We stopped looking for monsters under the bed‚ when we realized they were inside us." The much famous quote of The Joker‚ who is considered to be one of the most spine-chilling villain of Christopher Nolan’s "The Dark Night." Looking under the bed seems to be the most petrifying action for most of the part of our childhood. The different stories told by our parents in order to make us sleep‚ made us believe that something might hold our legs‚ pull us
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Criminally Famous Paths Charles Manson‚ Theodore (Ted) Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer all have one thing in common: they all used to‚ or are still‚ suffering from antisocial personality disorder‚ commonly abbreviated as ASPD. Antisocial personality disorder is a type of long term mental condition in which a person’s ways of thinking‚ observing and taking part in situations and relating to others are‚ a lot of times‚ debilitated — and destructive. People with antisocial personality disorder typically have
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Psychopath and sociopath have a distinct personality known as antisocial personality disorder. Individuals who are diagnosis with this type of personality disorder possess defiant behaviors toward the law‚ cunning‚ deceitful‚ impulsive behavior of aggression‚ and lacks remorse for other people (APA‚ 2013; Miller 2012). Men are more prone to have antisocial personality disorder than women. Other factors from culture perspective are low socioeconomic status and lack of education (APA‚ 2013). Over
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"The authors of ’American Psycho’ and ’The Wasp Factory’ present their protagonists Patrick Bateman and Frank Cauldhame to have very similar personalities." How far do you agree? ‘American Psycho’ and ‘The Wasp Factory’ are two controversial dark novels in which the protagonist gets away with murder. They were published only seven years apart‚ ‘The Wasp Factory’ being the first. ‘The Wasp Factory’ was Iain Banks first published novel‚ and was released into the conservative United Kingdom in 1984
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If a criminal has Antisocial Personality Disorder(ASPD)‚ is she or he born to be a criminal‚ or is she or he raised to be one? Before discussing this question further‚ what is ASPD exactly? According the definition U.S. National Library of Medicine provided‚ ASPD is “a mental condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating‚ exploiting‚ or violating the rights of others” (Berger). People with ASPD often lack of empathy‚ ignore rules‚ and isolate themselves. They also have a tendency
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Anorexia nervosa (AN): an eating disorder characterized by an in ability to maintain normal weight‚ an intense fear of gaining weight‚ and distorted body perception. Clinicians diagnose an individual with anorexia nervosa when he or she shows three basic types of symptoms: severely restricted eating‚ which leads the person to have an abnormally low body weight‚ intense and unrealistic fear of getting fat or gaining weight‚ and disturbed self-perception of body shape or weight. In other words people
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The Grand Master of Sociopaths A sociopath is a person with an antisocial personality‚ usually a criminal who lacks a sense of moral responsibility. In the comic book‚ television show and movies; the character the Joker is the king of Sociopaths. He again and again commits crimes with no hint of remorse. The Joker has much charm. He charmed his way into convincing a psychiatric counselor into letting him out of his holding cell. He convinced her that they were meant for each other. This same
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Sociopaths Ever wonder what it was like to be inside a disturbed individual’s head and find out what makes him/her tick? To find out how him/her got to be that way and what him/her inner most thoughts and dark secrets are? The people who look just like a neighbor‚ a parent‚ or a friend‚ may possibly be what doctors might call a Sociopath. He/ she are very complex and secretive that to the untrained eye‚ he/she seems to be in a perfect state of mind; when really he/she is screaming from the
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Wyatt’s case doesn’t reflect interpersonal or affective criteria nearly as much as the lifestyle and antisocial criteria—and while generally psychopathy may be reserved for adults‚ it seems fair to comment on where Wyatt’s actions aligned with the various criteria for psychopathy’s sub-factors. For example‚ as a student‚ Wyatt was rarely in good academic standing—not necessarily as a result of his
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