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How To Spot A Psychopath
The Daily Mail ^ | December 31, 2015 | Sarah Griffiths

Posted on 12/31/2015 12:19:50 PM PST by Bon mots

Like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, psychopaths can be intelligent and charming, while hiding a lack of empathy. So given their ability to manipulate others, how easy it is for you to spot one?

Self-professed psychopath Jacob Wells has revealed how he behaves in different situations and has listed questions that may help others identify whether they have any psychopathic traits - as well as recognise them in others.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: conscience; g42; politics; psychopath; sociopath
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The best book written on psychopaths can be read for free:

The Mask of Sanity

1 posted on 12/31/2015 12:19:50 PM PST by Bon mots
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2 posted on 12/31/2015 12:21:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Bon mots
Remarkable video about psychopaths.
3 posted on 12/31/2015 12:23:26 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Bon mots
Be definition, a "psychopath" is anyone with a mental illness. According to the CDC, this includes half of all Americans.

I think the author meant to say "How to Spot a sociopath".

4 posted on 12/31/2015 12:25:44 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Bon mots
Even the MSM employees were wondering about Hillary Clinton back in the early '90s.. Says She Once Tried to Be Marine this article from NY Times.
[Hillary's] . . . blur of [claims of] different roles . . . "We sense that we aren't seeing the 'real' Hillary, and this makes us very nervous." . . . the nation has become accustomed to Mrs. Clinton's intriguing shape-shifting.

5 posted on 12/31/2015 12:26:50 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Bon mots

Look for the (D) after his/her name???


6 posted on 12/31/2015 12:26:51 PM PST by ArGee (Two things are sure. 1) there is a God. 2) you are not Him.)
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Look to the offal office?


7 posted on 12/31/2015 12:29:45 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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How to Spot a Psychopath

Look for the 'D' next to their name on the ballot!
8 posted on 12/31/2015 12:29:57 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: Bon mots

Another good, related book is “The Sociopath Next Door.” It chilled me to the bone. A fair number of bosses are sociopaths.

https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=ssl&ei=j5CFVqPeEYaD-AX8i6XwCw#q=the+sociopath+next+door+audiobook


9 posted on 12/31/2015 12:30:45 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Bon mots

Classic! Great post...


10 posted on 12/31/2015 12:31:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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11 posted on 12/31/2015 12:32:07 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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"We came, we saw, HE DIED!!! Ha hahha ha" - Hillary Clinton on the warcrime torture, abuse, and murder of a POW named Momar Gaddafi.

#HandsUpDontShoot

12 posted on 12/31/2015 12:32:39 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: Bon mots
Back in 1993, I read one of the books mentioned in the article, "Without Conscience" by Dr. Robert Hare, and when I told people I thought Bill and Hillary were both psychopaths I got a weird look from everybody as if they had suddenly lost their hearing and had no idea what I had just said to them.

A few years later when I would repeat what I had found, they didn't seemed so confused but slowly began to chime in that it certainly might be possible.

There are people who work without a conscience, sorta like driving a car without a speedometer.

And we now have such a person as president of the Untied States.

13 posted on 12/31/2015 12:33:41 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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EXACTLY ..!!!! That’s a very big clue .. (D).


14 posted on 12/31/2015 12:33:45 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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An easy way to check is to *YAWN* in the presence of someone you think is a nut job. If they don’t respond to the *YAWN* with a *YAWN* of their own...RUN!

Are you *YAWNING*? Even just seeing the written word should trigger a *YAWN* out of you!

Just checking, FReepers...LOL!


15 posted on 12/31/2015 12:34:41 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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I don’t think hillary is a psychopath. She’s a megalomaniac but not a psychopath. 0bongo is a psychopath.


16 posted on 12/31/2015 12:35:16 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Bon mots

Downloaded for reading later.


17 posted on 12/31/2015 12:35:41 PM PST by fivecatsandadog ( "Radical" Muslims will kill you. "Moderates" will sit in silence and watch the radicals kill you.)
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18 posted on 12/31/2015 12:37:48 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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How to spot a psychopath?

Look for the (D) after their name.

CC


19 posted on 12/31/2015 12:39:10 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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You might not want to be drowning in a pool and a psychopath was the only one standing around to risk their life to save you but most psychopaths live their lives and never commit a crime.

If I remember my Psych 205 class there are two types of mental illness: Neurosis and Psychosis. Neurosis (fear of heights, spiders etc) is curable with treatment but Psychosis (paranoia, schizophrenia etc) is not curable.


20 posted on 12/31/2015 12:40:22 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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