A psychopath is one who suffers from the anti-social personality disorder of Psychopathy.
A psychopath can be identified by using the PCL-R Checklist, which contains the following characteristic traits:
1. Superficial charm and above average intelligence.
2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
3. Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
4. Unreliability.
5. Untruthfulness and insincerity.
6. Lack of remorse or shame.
7. Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
8. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
9. Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
10. General poverty in major affective reactions.
11. Specific loss of insight.
12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
14. Suicide threats rarely carried out.
15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
16. Failure to follow any life plan.
Psychopathy is in many cases also linked being a Sociopath, having Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Pseudopsychopathic Personality Disorder (also known as Frontal Lobe Disorder). The last of which is caused by lesions of the frontal lobe
A psychopath can be identified by using the PCL-R Checklist, which contains the following characteristic traits:
1. Superficial charm and above average intelligence.
2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
3. Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
4. Unreliability.
5. Untruthfulness and insincerity.
6. Lack of remorse or shame.
7. Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
8. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
9. Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
10. General poverty in major affective reactions.
11. Specific loss of insight.
12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
14. Suicide threats rarely carried out.
15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
16. Failure to follow any life plan.
Psychopathy is in many cases also linked being a Sociopath, having Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Pseudopsychopathic Personality Disorder (also known as Frontal Lobe Disorder). The last of which is caused by lesions of the frontal lobe
Being a psychopath doesn't mean you're going to be in prison for mass-murder or that you only resort to violence.
by Ryan Alberry January 1, 2009
Get the psychopath mug.Psychopath is a person that is mentally unbalanced and poor human control as they have a deranged and disturbed mind; their personalities are crazy demented, perverted, criminal, amoral and unpredictable. They exhibit antisocial behavior, inability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, they're often prone to committing violent acts, have extreme egocentricity and show no remorse and empathy for anything that they have done, that is either embarrassing or crazy and don't care about anyone who they hurt as they care about nobody else, except for themselves. They fail to learn from the consequences of bad experiences whenever something has gone wrong as they're impossible to be disciplined and they don't learn from their past mistakes and take it out on others.
A psychopath can also be a sadist as well, which can make them even more dangerous and more violent. As there is a difference a sadist on its own can feel a small bit of remorse of that a psychopath cannot.
And most psychopaths are killers and dangerous, not all psychopaths are serial killers and homicidal maniacs.
A psychopath is on the same level and has similar traits to a sociopath such as being manipulative and inability to feel remorse and shame, but psychopaths are worse and most of them are murderous (but not always) while sociopaths are against society.
A psychopath can also be a sadist as well, which can make them even more dangerous and more violent. As there is a difference a sadist on its own can feel a small bit of remorse of that a psychopath cannot.
And most psychopaths are killers and dangerous, not all psychopaths are serial killers and homicidal maniacs.
A psychopath is on the same level and has similar traits to a sociopath such as being manipulative and inability to feel remorse and shame, but psychopaths are worse and most of them are murderous (but not always) while sociopaths are against society.
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Get the Psychopath mug.1. the state or quality of being a psychopath/psycho
2. being straight up messed up in the head; pretty bad condition
Symptoms:
1.the uncontrollable desire to attack people
2. overprotectiveness
3. sleep deprivations
4. randomly dancing
5. getting into random mud fights
6. forgetting how to spell words
7. unassertiveness
8. finger spasms where you type random stuff
9. not making sense to the average person, unless you enjoy the condition as well or your it's bestie, or both combined
10. random mood swings
11. eating a LOT but never being full
12. evil thoughts/ having an evil mastermind
13.having a huge imagination, usually filled with evilness 14.talks in circles
15.has a passionate hate/love for Justin Beiber
16.growls sometimes
17.dreams about his bestie
18. is randomly and uncontrollably sweet
19. talks to people a million miles away)
20. has the ability to make up weird words (like this one) 21.makes the most of his condition!
22. Actually loves Jesus and is obidient, but ONLY to Him, not even his bestie sometimes
2. being straight up messed up in the head; pretty bad condition
Symptoms:
1.the uncontrollable desire to attack people
2. overprotectiveness
3. sleep deprivations
4. randomly dancing
5. getting into random mud fights
6. forgetting how to spell words
7. unassertiveness
8. finger spasms where you type random stuff
9. not making sense to the average person, unless you enjoy the condition as well or your it's bestie, or both combined
10. random mood swings
11. eating a LOT but never being full
12. evil thoughts/ having an evil mastermind
13.having a huge imagination, usually filled with evilness 14.talks in circles
15.has a passionate hate/love for Justin Beiber
16.growls sometimes
17.dreams about his bestie
18. is randomly and uncontrollably sweet
19. talks to people a million miles away)
20. has the ability to make up weird words (like this one) 21.makes the most of his condition!
22. Actually loves Jesus and is obidient, but ONLY to Him, not even his bestie sometimes
Example:
Person one:Kyle definitely has psychopathiticity, that kid's crazyyy! He killed a person with a spoon!
Eli: i don't care, he isn't capable of ever hurting a girl, in fact he's too overprotective. so i'm safe, and i get him cuz he's my Bestie(:
Person one:Kyle definitely has psychopathiticity, that kid's crazyyy! He killed a person with a spoon!
Eli: i don't care, he isn't capable of ever hurting a girl, in fact he's too overprotective. so i'm safe, and i get him cuz he's my Bestie(:
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