Unmasking the Mask: 69 Shocking Signs Psychopaths Use to Hide in Plain Sight
A very extreme case of psychopathy can be disturbing to experience but so is every other personality disorder or trait when put to the extreme and the “overt” ones – anti-social, schizotypal, narcissistic, borderline, obsessive-compulsive – can be really unpleasant to watch when they manifest in overt behaviour.
Anyway…. psychopathy is not something that you get surprised by if you are conducting an interview or treatment of someone in therapy. It is however surprising – in an uncomfortable way – when you meet such people in social situations. I dealt with military personnel among other things so that is not particularly uncommon. Plenty of psychos in armed services, police, prison guards etc. Also prisoners.
My impression is these people are literally “Soul-less”. Set pieces in the game of life to give contrast to those who are wired for empathy.
The PCL-SV
That and when he was describing how he murdered two kids. He had no affect. Didn’t name them. Justified his actions as not serious etc. Took a few sessions to acknowledge the murder of the second child. He was in denial, assuming I wouldn’t like him if I knew he killed the other one too.
Knew a kid when I was 7. Stomped on an injured baby bird. He also lit a church on fire, even though his dad was a priest. My parents told me he would be a serial k**ler one day. No idea what happened to him but he can’t be in a good place now.
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