Mental Disorder And Crime Psychopathy

Mental Disorder And Crime -
Psychopathy
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
Psychopaths and psychopathy................................................................................................3
Question 2........................................................................................................................................4
a) What signs in childhood show the potential to become a psychopath in adulthood?........4
b) What is the prognosis for psychopaths?.............................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Psychopathy is characterised as a personality disorder with range of characteristics which
suggests that an individual could suffer from it. Psychopathy is a mental disorder which involves
many linked conditions (Porter, Woodworth, & Black, (2018). This projects covers discussion
about psychopaths and psychopathy along with the signs in childhood which show the potential
of child to become a psychopath in adulthood. At last, prognosis for psychopaths is covered in
the report.
Question 1
Psychopaths and psychopathy
In psychiatry, psychopath is defined as the antisocial personality disorder in which an
individual shows patterns of manipulation as well as violation to others. Psychopath does not
have conscience and if they lie to someone they can steal their money, they do not feel any moral
qualms, although they may pretend to. Spotting a psychopath is not easy. They can be good at
mimicking emotions, charming and intelligent. A psychopath may pretend to be interested in
others, but they don't really care. They are mood calculating and cold hearted, carefully plot their
actions or moves and utilise aggression in planned out manner to get what they desire. For
instance: if a psychopath is after status or more money in office, they will make plan to eliminate
barriers stand in the way, whether it can be the job or reputation of another person (Verona, &
Vitale, (2018).
Apart from this, a recent research suggests that the brain of a psychopath is not like the brain
of other people. It may have some physical differences which make it hard for the individual to
determine with distress of someone else. These differences can alter the basic body functions.
For instance: when normal people see violence in movie or blood, their breathing quickens, heart
beats faster and palms get sweaty. But, in case of a psychopath, the react oppositely and gets
calmer. This depicts that they are fearless, engage in risky behaviour and they don't have fear of
outcomes of their actions.
Psychopaths make the people fool easily and they are very manipulative, but can appear
normal. Psychopaths lack conscience, empathy and guilt which makes them volatile,
manipulative and criminal sometimes (Dargis, Newman, & Koenigs, (2016). They are
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