How many of those symptoms determine the diagnosis? If half of them do, then most of us fit the mold.
I think of Psychopathy as a physical deficit— perhaps genetic or caused by drug abuse or physical trauma. Maybe mama obama dropped young barrack on his head.
I could be wrong about this.
I think ‘bams problems could be explained by his upbringing; he’s definitely damaged goods: a bastard, ignored by dad #1, probably mistreated by dad #2, raised by a sodden grand-dad, who palmed him off on surrogate dad Davis, who may have abused him. Mom wasn’t much help either. In short, a sad, angry case.
Is the term “Narcissistic Sociopath” a redundancy?
Interestingly, those with psychopathy require more stimulation for parts of their brain to react. So when they hear emotionally charged words, such as “rape” or “blood”, their brains don’t react the way a normal person’s brain does.
So if we could somehow stimulate the psychopath’s brain so it would behave in a normal fashion, we could get rid of a large portion of violent crimes.
In the general population 1-2% of the population is psychopathic. In those incarcerated or violent crimes, the percentage increases to over 50%.
But not all psychopaths are criminals. Some are in business, like Bernie Madoff.