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To: Brian Allen
The Psychopathic or Sociopathic Personality

Although he deliberately cheats others and is quite conscious of his lies, he appears unable to distinguish adequately between his own pseudointentions, pseudoremorse, pseudolove, and the genuine responses of a normal person.

Apparently blocked from fulfillment at deep levels, the psychopath is not unnaturally pushed toward some sort of divertissement. Even weak impulses, petty and fleeting gratifications, are sufficient to produce in him injudicious, distasteful, and even outlandish misbehavior.


Hervey Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity.

. . .a person lacking eros (love) can be charming. . .the presence of eros makes life difficult for people. . .Eros means caring, and if someone cares for whatever or whoever it may be, worries, nervousness, even neurotic tensions can be the result. Loving persons are seldom cool and relaxed, but people suffering from a deficient eros are unconcerned and so do not worry; often they are very relaxed and easy-going.

Relationships (for psychopaths) are things of the moment. . .their motto seem(s) to be "Out of sight, out of mind."


Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig, The Emptied Soul.

You can't "negotiate" or bargain with psychopaths.

Dr. William Higgins.



This website is dedicated in memory of my late father and crime writer Jack Olsen.



If you've visited this website in the past, you may have noticed some changes. A brief summation of this website is that it has changed in scope because I have tried presenting alternative research regarding psychopathy, rather than give a stereotypical, one-sided viewpoint.

In truth, psychopathy knows no boundaries.

First of all, it is found among all social classes. Such character disordered people are not only the charming con men and dangerous gold diggers that Dr. Hare warns us about, not only are they the lower-class, drunken, drug abusing "sociopaths" which Dr. Black writes about, they are also people who hold high positions in society, as Jungian author Guggenbuhl-Craig has said, because those who cannot love want power.

Some may disagree, but it has been well known that the socially adept psychopath, while his personal life may lie in disarray, is not incapable of reaching the heights of power (Hitler is a very good example of this). Hervey Cleckley also wrote about the socially adept psychopath in great detail.

Only as of late, with all the Enron scandals and related crimes, people are waking up to the fact that the most dangerous psychopath of all is the educated, socially adept psychopath, in fact, Dr. Hare recently said that he would probably be able to find many psychopaths involved in the stockmarket. It is time for American to "wake up" says Dr. Wolman, because we are being threatened by a serious epidemic of psychopathy.


27 posted on 10/30/2003 10:23:47 AM PST by Helms (Liberals have a Mental Defect which does not permit an accurate perception of Reality)
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To: Helms
Where did you get that information about Psychopathy? Can you give me a link? Thx!
31 posted on 10/30/2003 11:42:31 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Helms
I'm familiar with the clinical diognoses for all of "sociopath," "psychopath" and "high functioning."

The clear distinction between "sociopath" and "psychopath," however, is that a sociopath essentially has no awareness of "right" and "wrong" and "good" and "evil" whereas a psychopath knows very well -- and simply doesn't care.

KKKling Tong is a predatory psychopath.

And, lizard brained at best and barely capable of operating independantly -- and never of taking descisions and of making choices -- is not only not "high functioning" but causes one to wonder if he has a brain at all.
37 posted on 10/30/2003 1:39:19 PM PST by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
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