Do psychopaths rule the world?

 

Jon Ronson “So the wars, the injustices, the exploitation, all of these things occur because of that tiny percent of the population up there who are mad in this certain way?” I asked. It sounded like the ripple effect of Petter Nordlund’s book, but on a giant scale.

“I think a lot of these things are initiated by them,” she said. “It’s a frightening and huge thought,” I said, “that the ninety-nine percent of us wandering around down here are having our lives pushed and pulled around by that psychopathic fraction up there.” “It is a large thought,” she said. “It is a thought people don’t have very often. Because we’re raised to believe that deep down everyone has a conscience.” (pp. 113-114, The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson)

• The Psychopath Test (shelflove.wordpress.com)
• Casual Reader – The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (mrschristine.com)
• Imperialist Psychiatrists, Psychopathic Corporatists—But I Repeat Myself (madinamerica.com)
• Psychopaths are manipulators. (psychopathresistance.wordpress.com)
• Psychopaths (whsgossipgirl.wordpress.com)
• TED Weekends thinks you should rethink your sanity (ted.com)
• The complexities of the psychopath test: A Q&A with Jon Ronson (ted.com)

Don’t be a victim!

As if it’s a choice. No one chooses to be a victim. It’s the psychopath who calls the shots. It’s the predator who chooses its prey. However, we can reduce the risk of becoming victims. By learning about psychopathic traits, we become better equipped to recognize abusive people so that we can keep a distance from them, if not stay away completely.

• Related articles on Psychopath Resistance:
• Bullies get a kick out of seeing others in pain.
• Why is there so little psychopathy awareness?
• A game of destroying people
• Identifying different psychopaths
• Predator or prey?
• Hunting grounds
• Some people really are that hostile

Liars

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Related posts on Psychopath Resistance:

• The Skilled Liar
  
• It’s so easy to be fooled
• They seem completely normal
• Why is it so hard to hold abusers accountable?
  

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Psychopaths: Nature or Nurture?

Clinical psychopaths have physiological markers that can be seen in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and in lower resting heart rate, for example. It has not been determined with certainty if these aberrations are present at birth or if they are due to childhood environment or trauma. It does seem plausible that the outcome for a “born psychopath” is closely tied to “external” influences. In other words; the characteristics of each individual, and his path in life, are the result of an interaction between nature and nurture. If that truly is the case, isn’t it plausible that it is the childhood setting that determines if a child born with a psychopathic brain abnormality will become a high functioning ‘controlled’ psychopath or not? Perhaps psychopaths from ‘good’ homes are more likely to become politicians, corporate executives, lawyers, psychiatrists, and Wall Street operatives, while the psychopaths from ‘bad’ homes are more likely to take the positions as con artists, rapists, murderers, serial killers, and other criminals that have a high representation rate in prisons.

Sociopaths: Controlled and Uncontrolled (RobertLindsay.wordpress.com) Psychopaths are manipulators. (psychopathresistance.wordpress.com) The Invisible Psychopath—By The Time You Recognize Them It’s Too Late (totallyteas.wordpress.com) The Great Debate Over Nature Vs. Nurture in Psychology (psych.answers.com) Scandal After Scandal, Lie Upon Lie … What’s Going On? (ritholtz.com) What Does The Mind Of A Killer Look Like? (wnyc.org) Nature vs. Nurture (theotherwesmoorereader.wordpress.com) Psychopaths Caused the Financial Crisis (ritholtz.com)

Internet HELL

A lying psychopath used the Internet to make false accusations about me. People wanted me maimed or murdered. The FBI couldn’t help. BASED ON A TRUE STORY

 

Psychopaths are manipulators.

Psychopaths are manipulators.

A psychopath knows how to get people to sympathize with him and turn them against his victim. Manipulating people is an entertaining game for a psychopath. He enjoys feeling powerful and superior as he watches his unsuspecting ‘pawns’ subject his victim to criticism, blame, abuse, and rejection.

See also: A Game of Destroying People

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Do your research!

Are You Trustworthy?

Trustworthy?
You’re an honest, forthright person. You take your obligations seriously. You would never dream of taking advantage of someone—so when a sociopath takes advantage of you, you won’t see it coming. If you play by the rules, know this:
Sociopaths don’t.

Read more at LoveFraud.com.

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Treating Antisocial Personality Disorder

Author Jack Pemment writes: “I feel sorry for any therapist who diagnoses a patient with Antisocial Personality Disorder…” Read the article

Related articles

• Understanding the Sociopath: Cause, Intention, Relationships (psychologytoday.com)
• Antisocial personality disorder: the hidden epidemic (oup.com)

They want what they want.

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“Most abusers simply want what they want and
will not be denied without unleashing a torrent
of phony martyrdom and vicious slander.”

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The Psychopath’s Sleep of Death

By Thomas Sheridan – thomassheridanarts.com

When a psychopath goes to sleep they literally close their eyes and they are out. While the psychopath sleeps, they may as well be dead. However, if even gently approached during their Death Sleep, they instantly wake up — similar to a feral animal in the wild might do when they sense danger. When they wake up, it is instantaneous and they step out of their bed with no sign of fatigue or a sense of easing into the day — as a normal person would. It is akin to a machine literally switching on and off. Did you personally experience this?

Stray dog – asleep (Photo: Wikipedia)

Target A: “Switched off! Not a care in the world. Which I could not understand how someone did not even toss and turn when there were so many problems.”

Target B: “Used to talk in his sleep, often, but not all the time. Couldn’t really understand what he was saying. Didn’t think of it being another language, but anything possible with these things. I didn’t listen closely. Oh and if I woke him up, he would awaken as if he was in the middle of a tornado or something. Never woke up peacefully unless on his own. No matter how gentle I did it, either. I mean, jumping out of bed freaking out kind of shit. Like he was ready for a battle.”

Target C: “This is interesting. He would fall asleep in an instant, at anytime of the day. However, when he did go to sleep at night, it was intermittently broken up by his urge to smoke every 2-3 hours.”

Target D: “Death sleep. He would fall asleep instantly. Guess with having no conscience there are the benefits too!”

Target E: “It could fall asleep so easily, and I remember how it could jump up out of bed and be wide awake! I too found myself quite envious of this ‘ability’ as I struggle to fall asleep.”

What’s your experience?
Leave a comment!

Psychopaths Rule Our World

No conscience = more options

Cloak of Conscience

“Truth and reason are of no value to narcissists and psychopaths. Their aim is to defeat, exploit, and dominate—and not get caught. Lacking a conscience, they are free to use any method that will give them the upper hand without any ethical inhibitions standing in their way. Abusive people don’t feel that they owe their victims, or anyone else, a reason for their behavior. By ignoring requests for an explanation, they enjoy the sense of power they get from denying their victim the most basic respect.”

Other articles

• The Invisible Psychopath—By The Time You Recognize Them It’s Too Late (scott-williams.ca)
  
• When a psychopath, narcissist, cluster-b, ASPD won’t leave. (lifebegins45.wordpress.com)
• Why psychopaths like to wear badges and uniforms (everydayredflags.wordpress.com)

What is Synesthesia?

Jack Pemment (Author)

Publication Date: February 21, 2013

Harris is an insurance coordinator at the local hospital with synesthesia, a neurological condition that takes the outlines of other humans and generates a colored glow around their bodies. He has gone his whole life with this harmless and apparently meaningless condition, tagging people with their own unique colored halo.

However, Daniel had never seen the halos in the color red before.

Now in his late twenties, Daniel’s synesthesia has developed to the point where the outlines of people are also causing a taste sensation. This disgusts Daniel, because everyone he comes into contact with suddenly has their own flavor as well as their own color. Troubled by these sensations, Daniel goes to visit a psychiatrist for help, but things start to get a lot worse when he finally discovers that some people do have red outlines and they all generate the same taste in his mouth – road tar.

Daniel quickly realizes that the red outline and road tar taste are caused by the presence of innately violent individuals. After a run-in with a dangerous criminal, Daniel befriends Detective Connors of the local police department, who gives him a chance to identify offenders in a series of line-up tests. Daniel performs so well that the police psychologist takes him to a prison for a larger test, and it is soon confirmed that Daniel can identify psychopaths – just by looking at them.

Daniel catches the attention of the police department at just the right moment because a serial killer has become active again, and Daniel’s new found talent becomes pivotal, yet awkward, as the case unfolds.

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Dealing with Resisters

Psychopaths dominate because most people are brainwashed to be victims. There occasionally are people with partial resistance. They are isolated and the psychopaths can easily discredit and remove them.

What is Stonewalling?

Stonewalling consists of:

1. Refusal to negotiate a conflict in good faith
2. Refusal to discuss honestly one’s motivations
3. Refusal to listen to another point of view with openness
4. Refusal to compromise
5. Refusal to collaborate
6. Refusal to support the other person’s plans
7. Refusal to accept influence

By Michael Samsel

Read more about stonewalling…

(abuseandrelationships.org)

Why is it so hard to hold psychopathic abusers accountable?

Because they play dirty. They don’t follow any rules of civil interaction. Lacking a conscience, they have no moral constraints on their behavior, and when confronted, they simply deny their evil deeds. They couldn’t care less about civility, decency, morality, or honor as long as their actions pay out and their unethical behavior is kept under the public radar. They are free to lie, con, deceive, manipulate, intimidate, incriminate, or use any other trick in the book. We may not recognize the disingenuous conniving techniques they use to control and manipulate. An experienced abuser is extraordinarily devious and almost impossible to pin down. Primed with denial strategies, he’s always ahead of the game. Psychopaths use numerous deception tactics to create and maintain a respectable, virtuous, likable—maybe even admirable—public persona that deceives the best of us. They take advantage of our tendency to not recognize evidence that contradicts our beliefs, such as dishonesty and other lowly character traits in an individual who has ‘won’ our trust, respect, and appreciation. The persona provides a cover for devious schemes, exploitation, and abuse.  A psychopathic individual may believe that all of us play the same game—only he is smarter and superior while most other people are weak, inferior pushovers. Until understanding of psychopathy becomes widespread public knowledge, the predator’s hunting grounds will remain saturated with easy prey.  Persona: the aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others.

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A Game of Destroying People

A Game of Destroying People

“Psychopaths blame their victims for what happened
and consider the victims’ fate irrelevant.”

The mocking and controlling behavior of the psychopathic mind is motivated by a claim for submission. The submission brings them feelings of excitement consisting of a type of victory. They enjoy what they consider to be a game of destroying people. It’s amusing to them.

A Game of Destroying People

Psychopathy, that’s why.

When seeking justification for the behavior of a psychopath, we attempt to apply reason. But, when dealing with a psychopath, we must understand that psychopathy is the reason.

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Ted Bundy video montage

Handsome, cultured, intelligent, educated, republican…
Ted Bundy raped and killed more than 100 young women.

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Polished Manners

The Official Etiquette Rules for the Vintage Advice Group (Photo: Ann Douglas)

Don’t be fooled by nice manners. What looks like politeness can be pretense used to sugarcoat aggressive, manipulative, or false communication. Look at the content; not merely the cover. In other words; pay attention to what the person is saying, and don’t be fooled by who he is or how he is saying it.

See also It’s so easy to be fooled

The Psychopathic Duo

Psychopaths dominate because most people are brainwashed to be victims. There occasionally are people with partial resistance. They are isolated and the psychopaths can easily discredit and remove them.

If two psychopaths are challenged by an intelligent person, they will cooperate, while the intelligent person won’t understand what’s going on. Even if the psychopaths don’t have an explicit agreement, they will always cooperate to ruin an intelligent person asking questions.

Psychopaths can always count on each other for cooperation, when an intelligent person starts asking dangerous questions. This creates a massive highly-coordinated evil conspiracy. Two psychopaths will always cooperate, when an intelligent person starts asking questions. Two psychopaths will always assist each other in their evil goals. They can count on their fellow psychopaths to return the favor later, even if there is no explicit quid pro quo agreement. In a very real sense, there’s a psychopath code of ethics.

Excerpt from: Two Kinds Of Psychopaths

• Another psychopathic dyad; raped and killed a little girl.
• How To Spot A Psychopath [Science] (jezebel.com)
• Psychopath Brain Study of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at)
• Can You Tell Psychopaths Simply by the Words They Use? (neatorama.com)
• Why We Love Psychopaths (forbes.com)
• Is Lisbeth Salander a Psychopath? (psychologytoday.com)

People find narcissists attractive

By Daisy Grewal at
Scientific American

Devalue and discard

A narcissist will quickly devalue and discard his target, claiming he is the victim. His victims are now put in a defensive role by his lies and character assassination. By involving others he is enlarging his circle of those who give him attention. Any attention you may have given him is now replaced and multiplied by other people he manages to fool. A win/win scenario for a narcissist.

He will increase his attempts to provoke his victim into some reaction—the more emotional the better to make her look crazy and himself sane. Do NOT take his bait. It is his trap and setup. Provoking you into a reaction is his goal.

Dr. Vaknin explains: “Even the victim’s relatives, friends, and colleagues are amenable to the considerable charm, persuasiveness, and manipulativeness of the abuser and to his impressive thespian skills. The abuser offers a plausible rendition of the events and interprets them to his favor. Others rarely have a chance to witness an abusive exchange first hand and at close quarters. In contrast, the victims are often on the verge of a nervous breakdown: harassed, unkempt, irritable, impatient, abrasive, and hysterical.”

“Confronted with this contrast between a polished, self-controlled, and suave abuser and his harried casualties it is easy to reach the conclusion that the real victim is the abuser, or that both parties abuse each other equally. The prey’s acts of self-defense, assertiveness, or insistence on her rights are interpreted as aggression, lability, or a mental health problem.”

Dr. Sam Vaknin
Narcissism by Proxy, FAQ#42  

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“Make it your priority to spread the word.”

“Not only do psychopaths live among us, but also through our ignorance we have allowed them to rise to positions of almost absolute power over us. Widespread knowledge of the reality of psychopathy on this planet is the essential first step to securing our future and that of our children. Make it your priority to spread the word.”

 Harrison Koehli of Red Pill Press

The Psychopath—emotion and the brain

The sociopath takes charge

“If you really try to nail a sociopath down to answering a documented allegation, they will quickly turn on you, denounce you…  Anyone who does not fall for the brainwashing of the sociopath is sooner or later kicked out of the circle and then wildly disparaged by the remaining members…”

Mike Adams, journalist

• How to spot a sociopath—10 red flags that could save you
  from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job
  (Mike Adams, naturalnews.com)
• Tricks of the Psychopaths’, Sociopaths’ and Politicians’ Trade (usapartisan.com)
• Spreading information on how to avoid sociopaths (lissakr11humanelife.wordpress.com)
• Nation Tunes In To See Which Sociopath More Likable This Time (informationliberation.com)
• Dexter: True Sociopath? (alienredqueen.wordpress.com)
• ‘Sociopathic’ Pell compelled rape victims into silence, inquiry told (theage.com.au)

The shortest, simplest definition of “psychopath”

A psychopath is a person who is sane but amoral.
It is a character defect—not a mental illness.

The Evil Mind
(nancyjcohen.wordpress.com)

The Invisible Psychopath
(psychologytoday.com)

You Might be a Psychopath; Psychological Catch 22
(wondergressive.wordpress.com)

Slander Tactics

Stripped of context, the victim’s reactions appear to be unprovoked—as if out of the blue and without reason—with deceived bystanders, unaware that they are being used as pawns, hopping onto the bully’s bandwagon as a possible result, strengthening his position and making his victim look worse.

“OMG yes, before I finally resolved to go NC all the way and blocked his calls and texts, he would text me nasty remarks to which I replied in the same vein. I later learned he’d shown the reply texts to others without showing the one’s he’d sent to me first, which were obviously meant just to goad me into responding so he could say “see, she won’t leave me alone, she’s stalking me”. I still haven’t gotten over my anger at this and everything else he’s done. Some days are better than others; today’s a bad one.”

These people lack empathy and moral values. They want the upper hand and they have no qualms about using dirty tricks to get it.

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• The Smear Campaign—Trademark of the Sociopath (SalemWitchHunt.wordpress.com)
• An Honest Mistake = Slander? (edreform.com)
• Facebook Bullies (spreadinformation.wordpress.com)
• Avoiding mudslinging preemptively (ask.metafilter.com)
• Modern Slander: Man Sues Ex-Girlfriends for Online Remarks (blogs.lawyers.com)
• Brian Takita: Libel & Slander (cgmatteo.wordpress.com)
• Slander Is Murder With Words (patheos.com)

The ‘Almost Psychopaths’ Among Us

The ‘Almost Psychopaths’ Among Us

By Deborah Becker and Kathleen McNerney July 13, 2012 Most people think of psychopaths as those who commit horrible acts: brutal murders or enormous fraud. But maybe they’re not. Maybe they’re our neighbors, co-workers or family members who — while not exactly serial killers — might be what some are calling the “almost psychopath.”

Death By Psychopath

Harvard Medical School associate professor of psychiatry Ronald Schouten and former federal prosecutor and current criminal defense attorney James Silver spoke with WBUR’s Deborah Becker about their latest book “Almost a Psychopath: Do I (or Does Someone I Know) Have a Problem with Manipulation and Lack of Empathy?”

Read the article.

• Wonder What Psychopathic Killers and Politicians Have In Common? A Lot! (dvorak.org)
• Bosses urged to watch for workplace psychopaths (abc.net.au)
• Are You or Someone You Love An ‘Almost Psychopath’? (maureenabivinsphd.com)
• Eric Barker: Which Professions Have The Most Psychopaths? (huffingtonpost.com)

Wolf in sheep’s clothing

The ‘Almost Psychopaths’ Among Us
(wbur.org)

Professor gets life in prison for shooting rampage

“It didn’t happen. I wasn’t there. It wasn’t me.”

Booking photo of Amy Bishop released by the Huntsville Police Department.
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Harvard-educated biologist was sentenced to life in prison without parole after being convicted of going on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university in 2010.

Bishop killed the biology department chairman, and two professors. Three faculty members were shot and wounded.

Bishop denied having anything to do with the rampage.

Shelby Center for Science and Technology on the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus.

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Is Amy Bishop a psychopath?

Psychopathic killers are very cold-blooded. They typically do not act on affect, and they are much more likely to be found among serial killers than among spree killers. Psychopathic killers find some kind of pleasure in taking lives, whereas Amy’s rampage appears more as the desperate act of an individual with serious grievances.

Read more.

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• Amy Bishop wants to be tried in brother’s death (bostonherald.com)
• Ex.-Ala. professor gets life in prison (cbsnews.com)

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Identifying Different Psychopaths

Stonewalling or The Silent Treatment

Stonewallers, whether sociopaths or not, are seriously disturbed communicators. Their indifference to the stonewalled party’s experience, as noted, can be chilling. Their stonewalling often reflects character pathology, in which case they won’t change—they will always be stonewallers.

Read the article by Steve Becker, LCSW •Lovefraud.com

The skilled liar

Abusers tend to be comfortable lying, having years of practice (and no qualms,) and so can sound believable when making baseless statements. The abuser benefits when people feel too uncomfortable to ask a seemingly sincere, respectable person to substantiate a claim, or fail to look closely at evidence—if not ignore it—because of his charm or perceived authority. He also benefits when people believe that they can “just tell” who is lying and who is telling the truth, and so fail to adequately investigate.