Hatfield
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Oh, and forgot - You may be thinking of ASPD and psychopath. They're often lumped together or used interchangeably. When they're not, there seems to be constant disagreement about it. I believe Robert Hare, the daddy on this topic, says all psychopaths are ASPD but not all ASPDs are psychopaths. An interesting thing with psychopaths is when shown photos of people with different facial expressions, they are unable to discern the emotions. They don't feel them, can't recognize them but do try to mimic. That has something to do with why their actions are so extreme. Only in those cases can they get any kind emotional charge.
JMO
I appreciate the insights as the first real phsychopath I saw for sure was during the Jodi Arias trial where I watched her very closely during the live trial. It was amazing and shocking to me to watch her.
The way she would look around and see others in the courtroom acting in shock to some of the crime scene photos and then she would mock their reactions was incredible to me. It was like she had no real emotions of her own and had to mimic other people in the courtroom in order to behave properly.
Learning how they cannot feel empathy for others helps to explain how some of the real phsychopaths can do such horrible crimes we read about here.
I am convinced PF must be one of them in order to be so selfish and want to harm KB in such a horrendous way without caring how her Mom and others would feel afterwards. KK, on the other hand, has a whole host of her own issues in order to be able to follow PF's lead. In some ways I think KK may be worse off mentally than PF.
Anyway, thanks for the insight.
btw-I almost majored in Phsychology but it scared me so much in my Physch 101 class as I started to learn how people tick and and some things about myself that I was too scared to continue down that career path. LOL
