I, Psychopath
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Psychopaths… we usually only know them from Hollywood movies. We never expect them to enter our real life. But, the psychopath is closer than you think. Experts believe their number to be as high as one in a hundred. Most of them function incognito in high-powered professions…all the way to the very top.
But… it takes one to truly know one. In this intriguing documentary, Sam Vaknin, a self-proclaimed psychopath, goes in search of a diagnosis. In a scientific first, he allows himself to undergo testing to find out if he was born without a conscience. He knows he’s narcissistic and cannot empathize with others. By his own admission, he’s pompous, grandiose, repulsive and contradictory, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable… but he believes, he’s not a bad person. What he is is indifferent…he couldn’t care less. Unless, of course, the topic is himself.
Vaknin and his long-suffering but ever-loyal wife, Lidija, embark on a diagnostic road trip. But, it’s uncharted territory… deep into the mind and life of a psychopath. The 47-year-old convicted corporate criminal has agreed to take part in the pursuit of his own diagnosis… meeting the world’s experts in psychopathy in the hope that science will provide some answers for why he is like he is. These experts put Vaknin (and his wife) through a battery of rigorous psychological tests and neuro-scientific experiments.
Vaknin is shocked at the results. Sam, his wife, the scientists, the film-makers – will they ever be quite the same again? (Excerpt from cbc.ca)
[...] October 26, 2009 by psychopathy101 Before watching the documentary please note, not all psychopath’s are the same, for ex., not all psychopaths have a lot of short relationships, some can be married to the same person all life long, however in such a “relationship” extramarital affairs are not uncommon. Also, Belinda Board says that psychopathy could be “extentions of normal characteristics that each of us have in varying degrees”. I beg to differ and say, not so, their brains are quite different from people with a conscience and empathy, see posts below or visit “Research”, found in the right hand column. Finally to quote Dr. Hare, “The victims have all something in common, they’re human” and “If we believe in the fundamentally goodness of man we’re doomed”. To protect yourself, your near and dear as well as your fellow human beings, take the advice that I once got, learn as much as you can as fast as you can. Here the documentary; I Psychopath http://documentariesonline.net/2009/10/i-psychopath/ [...]