Sociopathy

Research on childhood sexual abuse has often examined, in isolation of one another, such highly correlated risk factors as parental substance abuse, domestic violence, and pathological family functioning. Investigating comorbid antecedents separately does not allow accurate specification of the predictors of abuse. Moreover, sexual trauma research has tended to neglect parental sociopathy as a risk factor. Given the limitations of past research, the present study examined the relationships among parental sociopathy, parental substance use, marital violence, poor family functioning, and childhood sexual abuse. We administered a battery of questionnaires to a nonclinical sample of 130 college women and replicated previous findings by showing that parental substance use predicted sexual abuse when examined in isolation. However, when parental sociopathy and the other risk factors were included in a regression model, parental sociopathy was the only significant predictor. Mother's ...

IT’S EVERYWHERE
Gaslighting is simply impossible to comprehend, identify, and permanently eradicate without an accurate understanding of what it is and how it evades detection. Because of its complex nature and apparent invisibility, it secretly lurks in the shadows while perpetuating unfathomable harm upon its victims. It is difficult for the victims of it and the many clinicians attempting to help them comprehend, identify, and ultimately resolve.

People who enter the biomedical field and have felt empathy for animals, but who learn to suppress those feelings and to accept and engage in animal research, are sociopaths.

People who happily experiment on animals with no empathy for the suffering they cause are psychopaths.

Being able to conduct animal experiments by being either a psychopath or sociopath is a selection filter for the fields of medicine and biomedical research.

It is very disturbing to realize that our medical system selects out sensitive, empathic, caring people, and is run by and for psychopaths and sociopaths. Anyone who enters the field of biomedical science or medicine must either become desensitized to animal suffering caused by vivisection, or leave the field, as I have done.

And I can tell you one truth that you should already know. The way we treat animals is the way we treat people.

This thesis is an analysis of both Doyle's original detective and Moffat and Gatiss' updated version of the detective, seeking answers about the alleged connection between the famous sleuth and pathological psychology. My claim is that the psychology of Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes does not correspond with theories on the nineteenth-century equivalent to psychopathy/sociopathy (namely "moral insanity") and the updated Sherlock's alleged psychopathy/sociopathy can therefore not be attributed to the character, but must be seen as a symptom of a culture which increasingly values psychopathic traits.

Symptoms of Harm OCD are described in order to make diagnosis more straightforward. In addition, differential diagnosis between Harm OCD and other conditions is examined. The problem of the prediction of dangerousness is examined and there is a discussion of what to do about actionable and non-actionable threats

Evidence is presented that Mathew Franklin Whittier, known by historians only as the younger brother of poet John Greenleaf Whittier and the author of the satirical "Ethan Spike" series, was the real and original author of "The Raven." The conclusion is that Edgar Allan Poe had a sociopathic personality, and hence told the type of brazen lie typical for persons with this character disorder, in order to falsely claim authorship of "The Raven"; and that he was successful because Mathew Franklin Whittier refused, for reasons of his own, to publicly defend his work. (revised 5/22)

This paper was originally written as the third number in a series, for a short-lived e-zine entitled "Real Paranormal Magazine," which folded before it could be published. For a more condensed presentation intended for an academic audience, see "Edgar Allan Poe’s Plagiarism of Mathew Franklin Whittier’s Poem, 'The Raven.'" However, note that all of this material has been published, and hence is copyrighted, in books. If any of these new discoveries are published, proper citations must be given to "Mathew Franklin Whittier in his own words," and "Mathew Franklin Whittier in his own world," by Stephen Sakellarios.

Since its theoretical inception, psychopathy has been considered by philosophers, clinicians, theorists, and empirical researchers to be substantially and critically explained by genetic factors. In this systematic review and structural analysis, new hypotheses will be introduced regarding gene–gene and gene–environment interactions in the etiology of psychopathy and sociopathy. Theory and research from neurobiological and behavioral sciences will be integrated in order to place this work in a broader conceptual framework and promote synergy across fields. First, a between groups comparison between psychopathy and sociopathy is made based on their specific dysfunctions in emotional processing, behavioral profiles, etiological pathways, HPA-axis functioning, and serotonergic profiles. Next, it is examined how various polymorphisms in serotonergic genes (e.g., TPH, 5HTT, HTR1A, HTR2A, HTR2C, and HTR3) might contribute either individually or interactively to the development of these disorders and through which specific biological and behavioral endophenotypes this effect could be mediated. A short introduction is made into mediating variables such as GABAergic functioning and testosterone which could potentially alter the decisive effect of serotonergic genotypes on behavior and physiology. Finally, critical commentary is presented on how to interpret the hypotheses put forward in this review.

On any given day, sociopaths are responsible for 80% to 90% of all conflicts and turmoil in any given workplace. They know what they are while most of us are completely ignorant of their true nature. Most
sociopaths deliberately wear a mask – a disguise like that is used like the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing – with the understanding that ignorance of who and what they are gives them the advantage in
their predatory behavior against people.

Richard Ramirez was convicted on thirteen counts of murder along with a host of other offenses. Ramirez can be categorized as an organized serial offender who prefers mixed sexual homicide (Douglas, Burgess, et al, 1992), as well as, an aggressive sociopath according to Lykken’s standards (1995). Although never formally diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (APD), his psychological profile fits the criteria for APD. This paper presents an overview of Ramirez’s criminal career, his personality, and psychological development. The issue of his relationship with satanism is also discussed with a focus on self-styled satanic beliefs.

Većina ljudi, ali i stručnjaka, termine psihopata i sociopata upotrebljava kao sinonime. I to nije pogrešno. Nasuprot tome, postoji određena grupa eksperata koja argumentovano pravi razliku između ova dva termina, a u isto vrijeme ističe i one karakteristike koje ih povezuju...

Exploring how psychopathy and sociopathy are gendered and culturally conservative concepts. Firstly through the intrinsic sexism of fictional portrayals and secondly by examining how politicised sciences take the liberties of narrative to engender such 'personality disorders'.

Talk given at Goldsmiths, University of London on 23/03/2017

« C'est en un mot dans ce sentiment naturel, plutôt que dans des arguments subtils, qu'il faut chercher la cause de la répugnance que tout homme éprouverait à mal faire, même indépendamment des maximes de l'éducation. Quoiqu'il puisse appartenir à Socrate, et aux esprits de sa trempe, d'acquérir de la vertu par raison, il y a longtemps que le genre humain ne serait plus, si sa conservation n'eût dépendu que des raisonnements de ceux qui le composent ». « Il est donc au fond des âmes un principe inné de justice et de vertu, sur lequel, malgré nos propres maximes, nous jugeons nos actions et celles d'autrui comme bonnes ou mauvaises, et c'est à ce principe que je donne le nom de conscience (...) Les actes de la conscience ne sont pas des jugements, mais des sentiments (...) ». « Dans toutes les questions de morale difficiles comme celle-ci, je me suis toujours bien trouvé de les résoudre par le dictamen de ma conscience, plutôt que par les lumières de ma raison. Jamais l'instinct moral ne m'a trompé » (Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

« Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that since vice and virtue are not discoverable merely by reason, or the comparison of ideas, it must be by means of some impression or sentiment they occasion, that we are able to mark the difference between them. Our decisions concerning moral rectitude and depravity are evidently perceptions ; and as all perceptions are either impressions or ideas, the exclusion of the one is a convincing argument for the other. Morality, therefore, is more properly felt than judg'd of (...) The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason » (David Hume).

« C'est dans la pureté du coeur que s'enracine la moralité » (Gandhi)

Procjenjuje se da u opštoj populaciji 1% ljudi zadovoljava kriterijume za dijagnozu psihopatije. Zapravo, savremeni naziv za psihopatiju je antisocijalni poremećaj ličnosti. Međutim, rezultati istraživanja provedenih na menadžerima firmi, organizacija i korporacija upućuju na sljedeće: oko 4% menadžera zadovoljavaju kriterijume da budu proglašeni psihopatama...

This paper proposes an approach to the limits that democracy confronts in the consolidation and radicalization of its civilizing experience. His descriptive typifies the dimensions and the vectors that originate and promote degradation of democratic politics in unhealthy manifestations of human sociability.

As a hook to this reflection, recovers the plot of the soap opera "Porto dos Milagres" based on the work of Gilberto Amado and recently broadcast by Rede Globo, looking for her insight to the great archetypes of the corruption of power and its perverse dynamics, updating it a contemporary approach to political psychopathology.

The individual tragedy, as a path of Oedipus, has in the political tragedy, as trajectory of the macbethian couple, its most typical correspondent. Like Oedipus, the macbethian couple commits an act of lese majesty; unlike Oedipus, they act in full awareness of the scope of their actions. The unconscious parricide, translates in the originating criminal act of MACBETH, in premeditated regicide. While the Oedipus drama comes down to joust accounts with their own conscience; the saga of the macbethian couple leads, in the voluptuousness of their own acts, to multiple regressions from the political level. Their cumulative crystallization in the form of basic pathologies of social personality, display a tragic derivation of consequences which open, on the dramatic scenes worked by SHAKESPEARE’s genius, somehow staged in TV drama and experienced in different episodes of real life, in this time, the entire spectrum of its manifestation.

In the final sequence of this text, I will be leaning on the political analysis of the three acts of MACBETH, signaling its reproduction and result in the process of consolidation and radicalization of democracy. I intend, in conclusion, to demonstrate how the art has advanced early, over the ignorance of the science itself, the knowledge of the personality’s "regressions", featuring the signical pathologies of regicide [parricide and filicide], fratricide and suicide. I intend to signal, too, as the genius of SHAKESPEARE, between the lines of this dramatic representation, works the correlated issue reports of epistemicide, genocide and ecocide. And how, in the classification of the dramatis personae of the macbethian couple are updated behavioral traits, which refer to the rescue and understanding of the fundamental features of a taxonomy of political psychopathology. It would be say that, at this point, the drama lived by the characters of SHAKESPEARE conforms, in a very proper expression, which could be called the "SYNDROME OF MaKBeTh" a structured set of causes and effects, symptoms and regressions OF political personality that typify the GREAT ARCHETYPE OF THE CORRUPTION OF POWER.

Evaluating the role that the "Oedipus complex" played in the theoretical formulation of Freudian psychoanalysis and the consolidation of its therapeutic praxiology, this text suggests, with some daring, but with structured conviction that the "Syndrome of MaK-beth" may fulfill identical and exemplary role in building a political theory of social psychopathology.

How is it that we have concluded that certain traits in clinical psychopaths actually have a genetic source and not simply the product of environmental influence? One of the key factors is what we call "Exact Duplication" (E.D.). Now, what that refers to is factual evidence in the nature of certain traits themselves and the fact that these are the same traits in virtually all clinical psychopaths. In science, we observe and make notes upon what we observe. We are diligent and our work is exacting. And one of the most basic things when it comes to scientific work is that those conducting it must be objective in order to end up with the correct conclusions. That is, we cannot allow bias to enter into what are are thinking and doing when working upon what we need real and accurate answers for. So, when it comes to finding answers our goal is to be a) exact and b) correct. To do that, we have various processes that we use in order to make comparisons and in which to make determinations regarding the factors involved in our work. We often look for indications that what we are doing is actually correct or whether or not we are on the right track. We are always in a process of confirmation. That is so that we know that as we go, were are not making mistakes or doing something incorrectly. Something that has been used in the past and is used at present by scientists to help measure whether or not something is a) on the right track, and/or b) if the item/s being observed 'fit' or have some actual connection to what it is or may be peripheral to (i.e., the subject matter), is 'Probability'. Probability is also known as either mathematical probability, or simply 'Likelihood' (from which, Likelihood Ratios are developed). In an instance such as we are dealing with when it comes to the traits that are known of and found in all clinical psychopaths we can generally define those which each individual meeting the definition of 'clinical psychopath' has and displays, as a 'universal' – meaning that these traits are the same that are found in all clinical psychopaths without exception. When we, as scientists or as individuals using the scientific method (or methodology) find a 'universal' or universals we view this in terms of whether or not or to what degree the chances of probability enter into the equation. When we have established without a doubt that we indeed have factual and provable information such as with universals, that tells us that there is some " common source " or source commonality (S.C.). And if one hypothetical source commonality or explanation is lacking (such as with an environmental source for clinical psychopathy), then we must look for or examine another which does account for this phenomenon. And when we have weighed the facts and made the proper considerations, we find that an environmental source or cause for a percentage of the factors or traits involved in clinical psychopathy just cannot explain the core of the universals involved. In my examinations, I have thus concluded that what has been observed by those who have and are still presently observing individuals with the full array of traits that we see expressed or displayed by those we term psychopaths, is actually a mix of two different main types. And thus, the mistake of thinking that there is solely an environmental cause for psychopathy. Having two categories or types instead of the one, allows us to account for those traits which fall outside of the universal. What I have done then, as a result of my own findings from observations that have taken over 20 years and painstaking firsthand experience, is to categorize these two main types; the Primary Type and the Secondary Type. Basically, the Primary Type refers to the genetic psychopath only. And it is the genetic psychopath that has been my primary concern in terms of my own research.

Any social and political arrangement depends on acceptance. If a substantial part of a people does not accept the authority of its rulers, then those can only remain in power by means of force, and even that use of force needs to be accepted to be effective. Gramsci called this acceptance of the socio-political status quo “hegemony”. Every stable state relies primarily on hegemony as a source of control. Hegemony works through the dissemination of values and beliefs that create acceptance and that serve the interests of the state and/or the ruling elite (the “hegemones”). Hegemony is most efficient if it remains invisible. A key hegemonic belief is the idea that there is no alternative to the current socio-political status quo or that the way things are is “natural”. The current hegemony – that is, the set of values and beliefs that bolster the current socio-political status quo – is a hegemony of psychopathy: it promotes “cultural psychopathy” and destroys empathy and compassion, thus threatening everything that makes us human.
The hegemony of psychopathy is responsible for massive human suffering. It must be fought and replaced with a counter-hegemonic set of values and beliefs that promote compassion and care. Fighting hegemony requires fighting the “pillars” that support it. Most important among these are the mass media and culture industry, and mainstream economics. The former is responsible for a continuous stream of hegemonic propaganda; the latter – among others – for providing a pseudo-scientific justification for the false belief that there is no alternative. This essay closes off with some considerations on tactics and strategy in the struggle against the hegemony of psychopathy, but does not – and cannot – offer any concrete advice.

Throughout the writing of The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy a certain real-life character haunted me. Jimmy Savile. Savile never quite fitted into my scheme of categorization. On one hand, he knew how to behave socially and could manipulate others. But on the other hand, he was not exactly a conformist. Nor was he an extrovert either. He seemed paradoxical, chimerical: at once reclusive and secretive whilst also showing off and craving attention, power and control.

I make a distinction between psychopathy and sociopathy. The two terms are commonly used in an interchangeable way, as if they are one and the same, but in my view there is an important difference. I argue that sociopathy ought to refer to behaviour whereas psychopathy ought to refer to internal psychology. More precisely, sociopathy ought to refer to behaviour that fails to meet our expectations and psychopathy to a psychology that does not align with how we expect others to feel and think.

Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with substantial antisocial behaviors and a callous lack of empathy. According to leading research, psychopaths are responsible for at least half of society’s violent crime and make up a third of the incarcerated populace. Next to being a disturbing clinical phenomenon, psychopathy is therefore also a social problem of alarming magnitude. Clinical psychiatrists frequently refer to psychopathy as the best validated personality disorder in mental health research, a status that has led to it being one of the most appreciated and utilized psychiatric concepts in forensic practices. This thesis challenges orthodox theories in psychopathy research, arguing that its clinical conceptualization is poorly validated, elusively defined, and arguably an overestimated clinical as well as social problem. In addition to addressing a careful criticism of prevailing research paradigms, this thesis will offer a novel approach to defining the psychopathy phenomenon, by applying insights from moral psychology and formal ontology. The thesis concludes by explicating a methodological strategy for future research, building on a rigorous commitment to biomedical models in mental health research.

Recently, Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce announced that the country would reached its target of US$6 billion regarding foreign direct investments (FDI) by the end of the nation’s current fiscal year (2017/18
fiscal year ending March 31 – but note that legislative changes have created a new fiscal year for 2018/19 to begin October 1st.) In fact, the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) – a
government agency responsible for the regulation and investment facilitation of FDI projects as well as general promotion and the collection of investment data – indicated as of January 31st of this year that the US$6 billion figure had already been reached regarding the foreign investment of existing enterprises under the government’s FDI program.

JOE HILL FOR YOUR CONFINEMENT DURING CHRISTMAS
Joe Hill is the worthy and hard-trying son of his father and he must have suffered a lack of candy for Christmas celebration in his family when he was a kid. So he imagines permanent eternal Christmas Land for all kids who have suffered somewhat in the hands of their parents.
Charlie Manx is the devil made human survivor thanks to a royal Rolls Royce that is his rat-trap for children dreaming of carols and sweets.
But four women will do what they can to capture this monster, destroy him (another IT of sorts though less clownish) and destroy his Christmas Land without any guarantee that the children trapped there will come out, some after twenty years or more with no aging at all during this time.
The two seasons and the book of Nos4a2 are included.
I added a few more things by Joe Hill, particularly his novel Horns and the film adapted from it with Ratcliffe as a horny devil.
And for the trip, I also added two Nosferatu films, and the second reviewed in both English and French.
All that should enable you to sharpen your teeth.
Enjoy your confined vacation.

1) We will engage the general public in order to hold those accountable who betray the common good by attempting to hijack the American Dream and impede sociopolitical progress, and who demonstrate disregard for basic human rights due to greed, unjust policies and unsustainable practices that result in extreme income disparities and related inequalities. When justice is compromised, peace will be too! 2) We seek to help educate the public about sociopaths (also called psychopaths and pathological narcissists) who often are the sources of unfair practices (systemic, group and individual abuses-of-power) used to oppress, manipulate and mislead the masses, often through efforts designed to divide and conquer --for purposes of power and control. When power corrupts, the corrupt require consequences! If you have questions or concerns, please contact Fannie LeFlore, who is coordinating information for this project on a voluntary basis. She can be reached at [email protected] or 414-438-1534.

Christmas 2020 is not going to be gorry per see but it is going to be COVIDy, over and over again, with the Christmas turkey in the center and all the dressings and trimmings and garnishings, but no one to enjoy it, either locked up in their rooms or apartments or houses; or ventilated in some hospitals Emergency Room.  So, imagine it is nothing but a story by Stephen King and it will pass away, at least for five minutes.

Source Doc: https://alternate-logic.blogspot.com/2022/07/for-your-conscious-intent-you-do-get.html



For your conscious intent, You DO 'get what you deserve'!

See link for this image:  'Why We Fail and How'

Not that your intent is validated as good or bad, or that the results will, being favorable or unfavorable, are ethical and spiritually moral. It means in the context of your motivating preconceptions, you've gotten what you deserve!

When You're going by your own rules-just pulling them out of your intuitive, ass' notions of obsessions and imperatives-there will be mechanical adjustment other than being more accommodating or conformist to what you decided from which to deviate. There are some hard realities you'll encounter that will necessitate a new perspective or incidental fine-tuning. That which particularly seems like FAILURE or success may have more to do with the perspective and expectations of intent.

In "failure", though one door seems to be slammed shut in your face, if you take a moment to step back, turn around, and see the broader scope about you, that failure just might have been the liberating forced leverage you needed for your 'Self' to open your eyes to other means and factors that your preconceptions had not counted on.

Being an intuitive Iconoclastic thinker from the herd-of-thought is a meandering, convoluted, marathon path, than a sprint or short run from point A-to-point B. It's a thought deconstruction and reconstruction of your minds soft-ware and embedded hardware of habits. This will take the time and discipline which you randomly ignored and discounted, prior to this off-the-beaten-path journey.

It's about your juxtaposition with an idea, for which relationships with people come to be seen as passing ephemerals and transactional incidentals. People are just the symbolic props of place and time than the long-sought soul-mate of longevity. The mechanics of your thinking are your bestie, your partner, your companion-literally and figuratively.

Make friends with your mind's mechanics and its minimalist, obligatory and imperative needs in the most expedient, amoralistic ways, when necessary, to nurture and develop the path your mind's mechanics present to your conscientious discernment.

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Research on childhood sexual abuse has often examined, in isolation of one another, such highly correlated risk factors as parental substance abuse, domestic violence, and pathological family functioning. Investigating comorbid antecedents separately does not allow accurate specification of the predictors of abuse. Moreover, sexual trauma research has tended to neglect parental sociopathy as a risk factor. Given the limitations of past research, the present study examined the relationships among parental sociopathy, parental substance use, marital violence, poor family functioning, and childhood sexual abuse. We administered a battery of questionnaires to a nonclinical sample of 130 college women and replicated previous findings by showing that parental substance use predicted sexual abuse when examined in isolation. However, when parental sociopathy and the other risk factors were included in a regression model, parental sociopathy was the only significant predictor. Mother's and father's sociopathy predicted sexual abuse independently and when combined.

Communities and Persons: The loss of community is frequently seen as a personal loss, i.e., as a loss for persons as social beings.  The loss of community entails the loss of certain kinds of social relationships, and the loss of these relationships is a difficult personal experience.  At least so say the advocates of community (Etzioni, 1995, 1998).  But perhaps these advocates do not realize how much persons differ, even at the most basic levels of their relationships to the world and to other people.  Fundamental human differences can make life in communities ideal for some people and almost unbearable for others.  Conversely the loss of the possibility of life in a community may be hardly felt by certain persons and the cause of a deep despondency and eventual suicide by others.  If this is so, then praise of the benefits of communities and laments over their vanishing need to be sensitive to and tempered by recognition of these basic human differences.
It will be our contention that there are certain types of persons who are so constituted that living in a community is extremely difficult and uncomfortable for them.  These people do much better and can even thrive in modern societies.  Moreover, there are other individuals who thrive precisely as members of communities.  These people find life in society stressful if not unendurable; they may even fall into depression and attempt suicide.  A corollary of these contentions is that modern society – with its inherent powerful tendency to erode communities -- presents grave difficulties for persons of the latter type while it affords unprecedented opportunities for individuals of the former type.  The advocates of community are not entirely mistaken, however, when they imagine a kind of person who can benefit from both life in communities and a simultaneous life in society.  Many such people do exist.  We simply wish to prevent this kind of person from being seen as Human Nature writ large: the person who lives a “well rounded” and happier life by participating in both communities and society is only one type of person.  There are other types of people, and we need to appreciate what fates they can expect in a mass society like ours in which communities are disappearing.