Let’s face it. The criminal psychopath who kills
does so casually, or even
for no apparent reason. He feels absolutely no remorse, nor does he give
the killing a second thought beyond maneuvering to avoid the consequences. Psychopaths
can be passive or aggressive. Passive psychopaths tend to be parasitic and
exploitative of others, whereas aggressive psychopaths commit major crimes.
Passive psychopaths (referred to aspassive-parasitic, exploitative, or
predatory) have frequent scrapes with the law but usually manage to squirm out
of serious trouble and punishment. Passive psychopaths commit mostly
white-collar crimes. The more aggressive ones, particularly the sexually
sadistic, may commit serial sexual murders. Their need for constant stimulation
through sexual arousal appears to be a motivating factor in their crimes.
The reckless grandiosity of
psychopaths usually causes them to fail at any enterprise, often spectacularly.
Clinicians sometimes quip that psychopaths “snatch defeat from the jaws of
victory,” and that for psychopaths, “nothing succeeds like failure.” The two
fundamental distinguishing characteristics of psychopaths are the inability to
feel ordinary human empathy and affection for others and the perpetrating of
repeated antisocial acts.
We now know that empathy has something to do with an anatomical
structure, mirror neurons; these have been found in monkey brains and human
brains. The cells are located in the brain’s motor cortex, where muscle
movement and control are initiated. Mirror neuron circuitry allows us to “step
into the shoes” of others, to feel their pain. The more empathetic the person,
the stronger the person’s mirror neuron response. And the weaker the mirror
neuron response, the less empathy he or she has. Psychopathic personalities may
have a dearth of mirror neurons.
For psychopaths, the world is a giant dispensing machine from which they
obtain goodies without giving up any coins. In their relationships they devalue
the other person, they are greedy, they appropriate others’ property or ideas
and feel entitled to do so. They distrust and are unable to depend on others,
another part of their stunning incapacity to empathize with, or commit to,
other human beings. A patient- victim of a psychopath once described to me that
failure of empathy in unforgettable terms.
Psychopaths experience chronic feelings of emptiness and of personal isolation.
They have stimulus hunger, a need for constant stimulation, perhaps to dispel their diffuse sense
of the meaninglessness of life. Some find this state unbearable and kill themselves.
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