Sociopaths

Questions About A 9-Year-Old "Psychopath"

The Huffington Post | Emma Mustich | Posted 05.15.2012

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This weekend, The New York Times Magazine's powerful cover story, "Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?," explored the experience of a Florida fami...

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David Moye

How Was The Joker Potty Trained? Mental Health Experts Psychoanalyze Batman Villains

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 09.20.2011

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Batman may be a great crime fighter, but he's a lousy expert at mental health. So says forensic psychiatrist Vasilis K. Pozios, M.D., a physician s...

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When Kids Kill: A Tragic Failure of Attachment

Judith Acosta | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Murder, Attachment, Divorce, Children, Neurobiology, Attachment Disorder, Narcissism, Violence, Verbal First Aid, Sociopaths, Parenting, Development, Motivation, Rage, Healthy Living News
Judith Acosta

What is the explanation for kids who kill? For the kids who fail to internalize social norms? For the kids who grow into narcissists or psychopaths? Are they just born defective through some blameless anomaly?

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Why It's So Hard To Say 'No' To A Narcissist

Judith Acosta | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Self-Defense, Narcissism, Sociopathy, Self Help, Narcissists Manipulation, Avoiding Narcissists, Sociopaths, Narcissists, Avoiding Sociopaths, Sociopaths Manipulation, Healthy Living News
Judith Acosta

You'd think that saying "no" would be a simple thing. It has a quick meaning and only two letters. It has a strong survival component, and we literally can't live without it. So why does it pose so many problems?

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The Art Of Spotting Narcissists

Judith Acosta | Posted 11.17.2011

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Judith Acosta

Because our culture puts such a premium on niceness, charm, and pleasure, ordinary, good people are put at a disadvantage when it comes to discernment.

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Which of Our Leaders Are Psychopaths? A Voter and Shareholder Guide

Kim Cranston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychopaths, Politics, Hunger, Shareholders, Nuclear Weapons, Corporations, Voters, Sociopaths, Climate Change, Business, World News
Kim Cranston

Were these "leaders" psychopaths? * • Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot, who caused more than 100 million deaths and destroyed co...

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Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcella Mroczkowski

Four to five percent of the population is born without a capacity for empathy. It is a neurological lack. A psychopath may be a genius and become a multimillionaire, but he will never be able to understand empathetic values.

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Is Your Favorite Politician a Sociopath?

Tony Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Edwards, Charles Rangel, David Paterson, Scandal, Politicians, Sociopath, Sociopaths, Hillary Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Politics News
Tony Schwartz

There are a number of American politicians who've been caught doing something illegal, unethical, mind-bogglingly self-destructive, or all of the above. And yet, none accept that they did anything wrong.

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Political Corruption, Wall Street Frauds, and Sociopaths

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Agin

These days it seems we're living in a society that's a candy store for sociopaths and almost-sociopaths and wannabe-sociopaths.

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