2much2recover
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Many years ago when I was coming to terms with what my daughter was I made a file so whenever I felt weak, I could go back and review what I learned. I was just reviewing it when I came across this sociopath checklist by: Dr. Hervey Cleckley published The Mask of Sanity, a groundbreaking approach to psychopathy
Characteristics
Cleckley introduced 16 behavioral characteristics of a psychopath.
Characteristics
Cleckley introduced 16 behavioral characteristics of a psychopath.
- Superficial charm and good intelligence
- Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
- Absence of nervousness or psycho-neurotic manifestations
- Unreliability
- Untruthfulness and insincerity
- Lack of remorse and shame
- Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
- Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
- Pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love
- General poverty in major affective reactions
- Specific loss of insight
- Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
- Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
- Suicide threats rarely carried out
- Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
- Failure to follow any life plan