(Canada) Forensic Psychology on Psychopaths

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Hi,

 

A couple of years ago I saw a Canadian Documentary about psychopaths.

Read below 'how evil permeates the workplace'.

I wonder if most of them today end up hurting animals, one way or another.

 

The documentary showed on braincatscans one will see perceptible differences

between common brains and that of

the psychopath..

According to Robert D. Hare, a forensic psychologist of the University of

British Columbia in Vancouver

who studied this fenomenon for 25 years, is one person out of hundred human

beïngs fitting the profile of a Psychopath.

Among criminals the percentage of psychopaths is 20 percent.

The disruption manifests itself at jong age at children who behave anti-social

and violently.

How some children start to become psychopaths is unclear.

Succesfull treatment does not exist because the psychopathical personality is

like a concrete.

Robert D. Hare also has developed a Psychopathology Checklist.

There is more on this interesting subject to find on >>

http://www.hare.org/links/media.html <<

Best Regards,

Le Petit Chien

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Dr. Hare http://www.hare.org/

is the author of the Book 'Without Conscience' wich is also available in your

Language at:

http://www.hare.org/references/features.html#translations

 

He has spent over 35 years researching psychopathy and is the developer of the

Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), and a co-author of its derivatives,

the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), the P-Scan, the

Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV), and the Antisocial Process

Screening Device (APSD). He is also a co-author of the Guidelines for a

Psychopathy Treatment Program. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, with

demonstrated reliability and validity, is rapidly being adopted worldwide as the

standard instrument for researchers and clinicians. The PCL-R and PCL:SV are

strong predictors of recidivism, violence and response to therapeutic

intervention. They play an important role in most recent risk-for-violence

instruments. The PCL-R was reviewed in Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook

(1995), as being the " state of the art " both clinically and in research use. In

2005, the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook review listed the PCL-R as " a

reliable and effective instrument for the measurement of psychopathy and is

considered the 'gold standard' for measurement of psychopathy.

 

 

How evil permeates the workplace

By HARVEY SCHACHTER

Psychopaths seem rare, the grisly subjects of movies and tabloid trials. But in

fact most of us encounter one every day. And in the new workplace, with

its openness and invitation to be entrepreneurial, psychopaths find it easier to

slither into positions of power through flattery, guile, and absence of normal

human restraints in their behaviour.

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