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so·ci·o·path
ˈsōsēōˌpaTH/
noun
plural noun: sociopaths
- a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.
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How to Spot a Sociopath | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201305/how-spot-sociopath
May 7, 2013 - 16 key behavioral characteristics that define sociopaths/psychopaths and others with antisocial disorders.
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How to Spot a Sociopath
16 key behavioral characteristics that define sociopaths/psychopaths and others with antisocial disorders.
By M.E. Thomas, published on May 7, 2013 - last reviewed on June 9, 2016
Psychologists vie to enumerate the facets of sociopathy.
Joseph Newman argues that the sociopath has an attention bottleneck
that allows him to focus only on one activity or train of thought, to
the exclusion of others. Researchers, including Howard Kamler, say that
the sociopath lacks not "moral" identity but self-identity altogether. Yet nowhere do I recognize myself more than in Hervey Cleckley's clinical profiles. In The Mask of Sanity, published in 1941, Cleckley distilled what he believed to be the 16 key behavioral characteristics that defined psychopathy.
Most of these factors are still used today to diagnose
sociopaths/psychopaths and others with antisocial disorders.
(Psychopathy and sociopathy
are terms with an intertwined clinical history, and they are now
largely used interchangeably. The DSM excludes both, in favor of antisocial personality disorder.)
- Superficial charm and good intelligence
- Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
- Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations
- Unreliability
- Untruthfulness and insincerity
- Lack of remorse and shame
- Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
- Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
- Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
- General poverty in major affective reactions
- Specific loss of insight
- Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
- Fantastic and uninviting behavior with alcohol and sometimes without
- Suicide threats rarely carried out
- Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
- Failure to follow any life plan
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