Comments on: Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest?

By: Paul Keogh

Paul Keogh — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:55:00 +0000

definitely middle management-are the worst culprits..institutinalized thinkers ..I think some psychologists ironiaclly fit this ..theyre so busy profiling that they forget to take the person as an individual because they;re trying to fit them neatly onto some spectrum..

By: Paul Keogh

Paul Keogh — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:31:00 +0000

a subset of people..I laugh at all these labels ..you’re either fully awake conscious human being or your not..all labels inbetween are symptoms of the only madness which is disconnection from the soul or true conciousness
try toxic psychiatry by Dr Bregin

By: Paul Keogh

Paul Keogh — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:26:00 +0000

are you kidding theres so many nutters and mentally ill folk in the care industry its unbeleivable..just check the news..

By: Paul Keogh

Paul Keogh — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:21:00 +0000

but journalists have no morals and are divorced emotionally from subject matter..mkes sense if you think any of this makes sense

By: Linda Chambers

Linda Chambers — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:56:00 +0000

Journalists — it’s all those deadlines forever looming…

By: CaptainFacepunch

CaptainFacepunch — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:49:00 +0000

“That’s a tricky question, because many people on the right would have “borderline personality,” which meant “borderline psychopath.”" This is incorrect. Borderline Personality Disorder does not correlate to Psychopathy. In fact, most people with BPD tend to self-destruct and self-defeat rather than succeed and prosper in the environments in which psychopaths succeed and flourish.

By: CaptainFacepunch

CaptainFacepunch — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:44:00 +0000

Read “The Mask of Sanity” for further understanding on psychopaths and the ability to fake empathy.

By: LG

LG — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:43:00 +0000

Limbaugh and Beck are not journalists! They are commentators, so they still fall into the media (tv/radio) category.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:40:00 +0000

A surgeon has no more or less higher potential to be a psychopath than the man serving you your Mc’D's

The point is that psychopaths are drawn to certain professions.

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:08:00 +0000

Come on, what about how Koko named her kitten “Allball,” how can you top that? Or the time “DethSlutz666″ gave a thumbs up to that video of a dog & an elephant being friends?

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:32:00 +0000

It’s generally a dangerous proposition to ascribe psychological traits to non-human animals that lack an effective method for communicating or even proving the existence of internal states.

By: Envy

Envy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:20:00 +0000

Psychopathy is a chemical condition in the brain, a real psychopath would do what benefits them best ; they are not marked by power mongers or anything else. They are self-oriented and everyone else can go fuck themselves. A surgeon has no more or less higher potential to be a psychopath than the man serving you your Mc’D's

It’s articles like this that undermine the seriousness of certain mental conditions.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:35:00 +0000

I left out an important detail. This guy though based it on how much blood had to be put in so he liked to push things a bit to avoid giving a transfusion and ruining his “score”.

By: Heather Booth

Heather Booth — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:31:00 +0000

I wonder whether a lot of powerful psychopaths are really just alcoholics/drug addicts (or heavy users) who have numbed their consciences with their drug of choice. A lot of the jobs on the high psychopathy list are ones where there is a stereotype of heavy drinking/drug use and the ones on the right are almost uniformly ones where you would think there would be low alcohol/drug use.

By: 3FootSmurf

3FootSmurf — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:47:00 +0000

true psychopaths do not feel empathy, however if they are around people and witness it long enough they can Emulate it very well (fake it accurately). It is the only way they can manipulate others to achieve their goals in a normal environment.

and IRT CaptainFacepunch below will do need a good book to read

By: blueelm

blueelm — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:26:00 +0000

I would actually imagine a lot of the people being called psychopaths here are in fact garden variety narcissists. That’s like calling all white mushrooms Destroying Angels though.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had everything I worked for, my entire life, my heart, my hope, and my safety destroyed by a narcissist. It doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous. But typically they only hurt spouses, their kids, etc. The rest of the world is generally going to love whatever they produce and ignore the production costs if they’re useful and/or feel bad for them if they aren’t.

And other people will project their fantasies of what it would be like to be them, and in doing so protect them!

Yay!

By: blueelm

blueelm — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:13:00 +0000

Huh? why would they not? Surgeons have high rates of PTSD. In order to do things like that you *have* to dissociate or else you’ll lose it. That’s not psychopathy though :/ Actually this whole article is making me more sure than ever that psychopathy is kind of a made up term people use for the extremes of just about personality disorder that had been referred to as “cluster b” at some point and/or a way to avoid the less pleasant realities of the self.

I’ll put it to you this way: I could cut some one if I had the training and knew doing so well could be helpful in the long run. I could not do so while empathizing with them. Why? I’d end up killing them that way.

If being a “psychopath” means lacking empathy at some place or time in life then MOST people are psychopathic.

By: echolocate chocolate

echolocate chocolate — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:16:00 +0000

I assumed he was just being flippant, as everyone knows that video game developers spend all their time making murder simulators.

By: Julie Ball

Julie Ball — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:38:00 +0000

Capitalist competition guarantees that the most psychopathic people will win.

By: Morey Soffo

Morey Soffo — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:03:00 +0000

To complete my degree, I had to take a course in something in the “health”-related part of the catalog. The only class that actually fit my schedule was “Deviant Human Sexuality.” One interesting bit of information was a study that listed deviancies and fetishes by predominance of occupations. Pilots were most likely to be cross-dressers, followed by cab drivers (Princeton, 1989). I work for an airport balancing aircraft weight loads for a large cargo airline. Every time I see a pilot schlepping several bags to the plane for what is just supposed to be an overnight or two-day trip, I figure it must be all the wigs and shoes.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:07:00 +0000

Merely pointing out that there does not seem to be a definition of “psychopath,” but that psychopathic traits are also over-represented in the right hand column. It’s just that laymen tend to discount psychopathic traits when someone is cutting themselves instead of others.

By: Selena60

Selena60 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:44:00 +0000

Psychiatrist? Or do they only lead in the general craziness category?

By: Flight Er Doc

Flight Er Doc — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:14:00 +0000

Thats actually a good thing: Loosing a lot of blood is a bad thing

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:35:00 +0000

As sdmikev points out, there is a lot of public outcry over the salary of teachers, for example, but we literally excuse criminal behavior in CEOs if their companies are large and powerful enough.

We are all complicit in the grotesque difference in pay scales.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:06:00 +0000

Or at least a general reduction.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:05:00 +0000

Heroin happy or orgasm happy?

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:03:00 +0000

What would you say to a cup of tea?

Feck off, cup!

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:58:00 +0000

The Dalai Lama seems pretty happy every time I’ve seen him.

By: Catbeller

Catbeller — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:52:00 +0000

I’ll add this, unpopular as it will be. Foot soldiers are trained to be psychopaths. The have to shut down empathy to do what they do, which is to kill on command or on standing orders. Drone operators who have to blow up weddings. The tank drivers who blew up a building with journalists standing on it – and knew it.
True military training requires taking normal humans and instilling in them psychopathic tendencies. This explains so much about PTSD and veterans who can’t put it out of their heads – they are not physiological psychopaths, so they crack. True psychopaths go on to work for Blackwater or similar.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:52:00 +0000

Except that I don’t give my money directly to the psychopath. I give it to someone who works for someone who works for someone who works for…….. someone who works for the psychopath. As you go up the chain, it gets more psychopathic. It’s a sort of natural hierarchy of psychopaths, and that doesn’t mean that the people at the bottom like it.