Sociopathy (Psychopathy)

Poor parenting!!!

Yes. It is very much a genetic condition that is also influenced by family history of abuses. Sometimes most all of the family members will be sociopaths, often with one member in each generation being 'normal'.

There have not been any recorded reports of the successful treatment of a psychopath. Psychopaths are believed to have sections of their brain wired differently than normal humans, and there is no treatment that can fix that. Also, psychopaths generally do not want treatment so therapy is rarely an option.

I would suppose so since he would be doing work that would make everyone recognize him as such a wonderful and kind man. Thus, his ego would be boosted once he realizes that all the people KNOW how wonderful he is, just like he knows. Try and find out. ^_^

Most researchers tend to think that sociopaths are both. Someone may have a sociopathic parent and have a predisposition towards sociopathy, but they might be raised well by the other parent and be a well-adjusted person later on in life. Alternately, a child born to parents who had a history of responsibility, happiness, and empathy might experience a bad upbringing and become a sociopath. Personally, I believe that it's due more to environmental factors, but there are just as many who will argue that the cause is predominantly genetic. People don't really know everything that causes sociopathy.

It's a special gift that few people have so you're just lucky if you're born with it. It's no big deal if you don't have it, so don't get discouraged. But Ibelieve there is a way to get it, but no, it isn't ridiculous stuff like make a magic potion or all that ( besides, that is so dumb.) You can develop it, though there is a cost. You can achieve telekinesis, a kind of ESP, but still, it is ESP. Look it up on the Internet for more information, trust me, you'll find something. The cost: It has a strict discipline, so if you're a busy person, either spare some free time or too bad. You have to meditate for 10-20 minutes if you have something important, or 30-40 minutes if you have a lot of free time. The key to master telekinesis is to have a calm mind, a strong belief, and don't pressure yourself. If you can do these things, you can have telekinesis.

In my experience, sociopaths use religion to manipulate others.

To begin with, sociopaths come in all shapes and forms, for example, one sociopath is a killer, the next is a rapist. Some are not even criminals.

The one constant among sociopaths in the apparent inability for them to truly feel human emotions such as love, remorse, and guilt. Seems to me this might make for a pretty good detective, as long as he/she doesn't display criminal behavior.

You didn't say in what context you must deal with this person. If it's a family member, someone at work or school, a neighbor, there is only one way to "deal" with a sociopath. You can't change them, you can't get them to do anything different than what they want to do, so don't try. The only thing you can change is your reaction to what this person says or does.

Since I don't know your relationship is to this person, I can only recommend that you avoid this person as much as possible and never react to what ever this person may try to hurt you (I know that's hard). If this person is a possible danger to you, report your fears to an appropriate authority; an authority at school, the human resources at work; the local police. The authority may tell you they can't do anything but that is not the point. If you are in any danger, a report should be on file to show that you were in danger in case you have to take some action in the future.

Last but not least, don't let this person define who you are. Only you can do that.

I don't think so unless you remove all normal thought from yourself when dealing with them and how can you do that if you normal how can someone really think like they do and see things the way they do without being like them i wouldn't want to try you would become an empty shell like they are in the end

If you were truly a sociopath, first you would not be aware of it (or at least you would not acknowledge it); second, if you already have kids, it is far too late for an easy fix.

If you truly are a sociopath, it is time to give your children up for foster care. Check yourself into a treatment facility.

Oh, just for information sake, there is no treatment for a true sociopath. They have no conscience and feel only apathy for others except how it serves themselves.

This is a term used to describe one of "three warning signs", or behaviors of Sociopathic behavior. Zoosadism is the excitement or pleasure, (sexual or otherwise) experienced during the act of inflicting cruel, torturous, and even deadly acts on animals. Research has found a direct link between this response, the perpetration of the acts themselves, (harming animals during childhood), and an increased probability of committing serious aggression towards people, usually those weaker than themselves. This has been studied and researched since the early 1960's according to the details I was able to find. For more details, please see the sites listed below.

I have heard of this before.

There is some truth to this statement. For reasons that are not clearly understood, some sociopaths, or what it is now called, anti-social personality disorder, do not blink like a normal person. They do blink but not nearly as much as someone without APD. A good example of this, and one that most people have seen, is Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of the serial killer Hannibal Lector in the movie Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins must have done his homework, his creepy Dr. Lector was dead on. No pun intended.

There is still so much unknown about people with this personality disorder. And it may never be understood completly, but it is always a facinating subject.

I think so LOL!!! What a dumb name who knows what Gwyneth was thinking to name her daughter APPLE...that kid will have a complex when she is older and she will probably change her name can you imagine "Apple come get the apple I just cut up for you to eat". Apple where are you come inside for bedtime now!! BROTHER way to go Gwyneth!

There is no way to be sure, because that requires extensive personality testing and analysis by a mental health professional.

Sociopath is a term which means someone who behaves in a psychopathic manner because of genetic and/or environmental factors, but is not actually a Psychopath. Treatment and/or experiences in childhood and adolescence can trigger these personality problems. Genetic susceptibility can play a role. Sociopaths are characteristically risk-taking, impulsive, ruthless, grandiose ad irresponsible financially and/or otherwise. They have trouble formulating and conforming to their own or another's plan. Sociopaths are often deceitful, charming and manipulative.

The term, Sociopath, can also refer to a Psychopath who is able to refrain from overtly criminal activity and may therefore never come into contact with the Criminal Justice system or forensic psychologists, yet manipulates, bullies and destroys those around him or her in a psychopathic manner, and enages in thrill seeking and unethical behaviour without delving into illegality.

A true Psychopath is defined as someone scoring greater than 26 - 30 (depending on the jurisdiction) out of 40 on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. This definition is under continual review, as it's now recognised that senior execs in Corporations, for example, often show a range of psychopathic traits (glib charm, narcissism, ruthlessness, lack of anxiety or fear) demanded by their positions without neccessarily breaking the law, and a high score on the Psychopathy checklist requires the subject to exhibit a consistent pattern of law-breaking behaviour. Such people might meet the second definition of Sociopathy above.

In the US Psychopathy is lumped in with ASPD, or Anti-Social Personality Disorder. This is highly controversial. Most criminals have ASPD, and while it's probably accurate to say all Psychopaths have ASPD, not all people with ASPD are Psychopaths.

Most "Sociopaths" would also be defined as having ASPD, but a Sociopath (if we use the first definition above), can feel love, empathy and emotional attachment and rehabilitation may be possible.

Barak Obama had a difficult childhood. His real father was distant geographically and emotionally. His genetic father was far away geographically and emotionally. Obama was allowed to stay with his grandparents in Hawaii as long as he "kept his trouble to himself" he said in his book, Dreams from My Father. Obama was a delinquent we know because he confesses chronic use of illegal drugs in high school and college. He seems to have had no trouble academically at school and he went to Harvard. This indicates that he knows how to behave to obtain his goals.The way in which Obama came to power was mired in accusations of rigging. Obama has told many lies to the American people. He has been forced to admit only the obvious ones.

True Psychopaths cannot feel love or emotional attachment. Their lives are characterised by extreme grandiose and narcissistic behaviour, abuse of those around them, abusive relationships and a pattern of lying and inter-personal exploitativeness.

Clearly Barak Obama loves his children and married his co-worker. Only his wife, Michelle Obama, and his daughters only know if there is a narcissistic, psychopathic or sociopathic disturbance in his family life. He certainly does not seem like a Psychopath.

His fondness for burgers, beer and golf shows some narcissistic character traits. A healthy ego is essential for someone who is going to make massive decisions in this imperfect world shorn of absolute rights and wrongs. Interestingly though, Obama reportedly had said he was going to be President of the U.S. during his youth.

Truly Narcissistic or Psychopathic heads of state were people such as King Henry VIII of England, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin or Saddam Hussein, and there's clearly a huge difference between them and Barak Obama. To summarize, the answer to this question of whether Obama is a Sociopath is not clear, but it is unlikely to be the case. He is definitely not a Psychopath.

== == In most cases, a sociopath is NOT treatable. They think they are just fine, it is the REST of the world that is out of step with THEM. The best that can be dome with them is to warehouse them, in locked wards to protect society from their violence. Drugs will help to control their acts but only if they TAKE them. Except for one thing: the mere fact that some scientists know as much as they now do about the brain of a sociopath means that solving the problem is no longer an impossible and obscure wish -- it's moving within the realm of concrete possibility.

As soon as fairly large numbers of sociopaths begin to be treated in a way that actually helps them, that corrects as much as possible the chaos of misdirected signals in their confused and disorganized brains, and then a form of therapy that in addition to that, by necessity, teaches them to cope with the resulting maelstrom of emotion and impression that was formerly impossible, so that they can put it in order and start to develop the heretofore dormant and silent segments of their brains and better use those formerly mixed-up areas where no recognizable order ruled, THEN THE OTHERS MAY BEGIN TO NOTICE WHAT IS GOING ON...and they will know at least this much: instead of "the kiss of death," a diagnosis of ASPD (the DSM-IV way of saying sociopathy or psychopathy) will lead someplace; that there will be things done that actually make a difference.

Crippled as they are neurologically, sociopaths are yet shrewd, and they're always looking out for themselves in a way similar to that of a loner predator. Seeing others like them actually benefiting from treatment will have to start persuading them that there's something to gain in going for help after all. Not being rejected or met with "We can't help you; you're evil incarnate," or the equivalent thinly disguised in euphemistic psychology jargon; NOT being met with a situation where they'd have to substitute symptoms of an "acceptable" illness in place of those they bear in secret -- that would almost certainly, if gradually, have an effect: if a sociopath can clearly see a benefit coming from admitting his or her real situation, there's nothing to stop him or her from doing just that.

It's already started to happen, if in a tiny, barely perceptible trickle.

Right now, all science has at the ready for them is to use various types of preexisting medication given in attempts to counteract the chaotic way the brain of a sociopath functions. That and types of talk therapy carefully altered to avoid the pitfalls that have in the past caused regular therapies to make sociopaths worse instead of better. But the more that scientists such as Robert Hare and his colleagues delve into and experiment with the new types of brain scans and learning what makes sociopaths tick like human bombs, the more likely that it becomes with each passing year that a means will soon be isolated to defuse those bombs.

The primary source of a sociopath's infamous rage is frustration, of a sort so alien and so extreme that almost no one else can understand what it means. Once they start getting taken seriously, that frustration, and the wild rage it provokes, will lessen, and since it is a primary source of the constant distrust that makes regular therapy fail sociopaths, the defusing of that rage and its maddening causes will be a huge step in the right direction.

Get a doctor to come help you and erm......talk.Talk very long.

You just have to avoid talking to him or her

Seeking help from a mental health professional, such as a therapist or psychiatrist, can provide guidance in addressing sociopathic traits. This can involve therapy to work on developing empathy, emotional regulation, and social skills. It is important to be open and motivated to change in order to make progress in overcoming sociopathic tendencies.

Yes. Anything that comes into our bodies MAY contain pathogens.

Jack The Ripper.

No, Jack the Ripper is just the most notorious. There are far too many murders and murderers to know who may be the nastiest. And after years of research on the subject (if you can stomach it) you would only arrive at an opinion. Nasty can mean a lot of things and there are way more nastier and way more prolific murderers than Jack.