{"id":5,"date":"2014-06-01T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychresidentresource.org\/?p=5"},"modified":"2014-09-08T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T00:22:41","slug":"there-are-more-men-than-women-are-you-a-psychopath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychresidentresource.org\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"There are More Men than Women: Are You a Psychopath?"},"content":{"rendered":"
By\u00a0Lida Prypchan<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
“Triple I” = <\/strong>Impulsiveness + Instability + Inability to Adapt to One\u2019s Environment<\/strong><\/div>\n
\"NightwatcherbySWwithphotocredit\"<\/a>Usually, one associates the sociopath (psychopathic or antisocial personality) with delinquency. \u00a0Many others associate it with sexual offenders. \u00a0There will be a few or many cases, but it is known that not every delinquent is a psychopath.<\/div>\n
As a general rule, psychopaths are not held in psychiatric institutes for exhibiting psychopathic behavior, but rather for presenting another types of psychiatric problems that complicate his\/her already unbalanced psyche, such as for example: nervous breakdown, depression, suicidal gestures, alcoholism and drug abuse, or a delusional episode. \u00a0But once they have resolved their immediate conflict, it becomes much more difficult to hold them in the institution, since the person who suffers this type of illness is a glib and persuasive speaker who is able to manipulate the group, leading them to revolt. \u00a0A typical example of this is observed in the movie \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest\u201d in which Jack Nicholson feigns being a psychopath. \u00a0He incites his fellow incarcerates to rebellion (plans escapes, steals a bus for a trip to the beach, etc.). \u00a0A psychopath, in general , is an ill person whose intellectual capacity, or rather, his\/her intelligence, \u00a0is not affected by the illness: they have a normal IQ (average) or higher.<\/div>\n
The characteristics of the psychopathic personality, from my point of view, are highly questionable. \u00a0I think that one can only make a proper diagnosis if one looks very carefully at his\/her life history. \u00a0The classic texts of psychiatry define a sociopath as an individual who throughout his\/her life shows serious difficulties with conforming to the rules of life that society imposes. \u00a0The ultimate cause of all of his\/her social missteps is the “triple i”: instability, impulsiveness, and an inability to adapt to their environment. \u00a0This “triple i” converts the sociopath’s life into a closed circle.<\/div>\n

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As I understand it, since a sociopath is an individual who internally feels a deep \u00a0discomfort, a discomfort that is manifested in continual boredom, he\/she puts into play his\/her impulsiveness in order to break out of that tedium. \u00a0The sociopath then engages in excessive consumption of drugs and alcohol and becomes involved in dangerous activities. \u00a0But his\/her instability impedes him or her from maintaining relationships and therefore the person becomes unable to adapt to his\/her environment.<\/div>\n
This illness is seen more in men than in women, especially those from dysfunctional families. \u00a0Statistics show that the probable causes of sociopathic behavior have a dual origin: genetic and environmental. \u00a0The genetic approach is based on the finding of a psychopathic family history: a noteworthy proportion of alcoholics and sociopaths among the men and hysteria in the women having been observed among family members. \u00a0Regarding the environmental approach, it has been observed that there are more sociopaths who come from unstable environments and lack education (abandoned children, broken families, the emotionally rejected, and the abused).<\/div>\n

The childhood of a sociopath is characterized by a marked lack of discipline regarding both school and parents. \u00a0This behavior is particularly acute in the adolescent stage, in which the subject may even commit petty criminal acts. \u00a0In adulthood this behavior prevails ,but it is extended to almost every sphere of individual action. \u00a0The person has difficulty maintaining a stable state (instability), engages in fantasy business endeavors that end in failure, is a parasite regarding his wife or his family, or otherwise resorts to delinquency (theft, fraud, forgery of signatures, issuing bad checks, usurpation of titles and professions, use and possession of drugs, and heterosexual and homosexual prostitution that may implicitly entail the blackmail of the victim) . \u00a0His\/her emotional life is equally unstable: separations, divorces, family abandonment , and ephemeral relationships. \u00a0In general, the person flees in the face of conflict and commitments to others. \u00a0He\/she \u00a0is on a constant search for new adventures to distract him\/her. \u00a0The person does not learn from his\/her mistakes and inexorably falls again and again into the same patterns without experiencing pain or remorse (if he\/she caused someone moral damage), and does not take preventive measures to avoid making the same errors. \u00a0The person is unable to maintain his\/her achievements (he has difficulties in projecting the future). \u00a0The person does not endure his\/her frustrations, and when suffering them reacts in an uncontrolled and disproportionate manner. \u00a0The person deceives him\/herself and others, confusing fantasy with reality. \u00a0The person is more amoral than evil. \u00a0As I mentioned before, to me all of these characteristics seem very questionable.<\/p>\n

I wonder: What triumph is lasting in life? Who does not make the same mistake various times? Is every drug addict a psychopath? \u00a0Since the almost excessive consumption of alcohol is so common in our country, is this is psycopathic trait? \u00a0Divorces and separations: \u00a0do they only occur in psychopaths? \u00a0Is this not just the way we now live? \u00a0For that reason, as I explained previously, only by combining many of these characteristics are we able to distinguish the psychopath from the stable individual of our era.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Lida Prypchan “Triple I” = Impulsiveness + Instability + Inability to Adapt to One\u2019s Environment Usually, one associates the sociopath (psychopathic or antisocial personality) with delinquency. \u00a0Many others associate it with sexual offenders. \u00a0There will be a few or many cases, but it is known that not every delinquent is a psychopath. As a general … <\/p>\n

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