Comments on: Face to face with psychopathy http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Animalising the HTCU « Happy as a Monkey http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/#comment-20123 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:36:08 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18099#comment-20123 [...] started heard a rumour that one plan is for us to have mandatory treatment based on a 1960s study into treating psychopaths where they strip us naked, dose us with LSD and throw us all in a [...]

]]> By: Paul McIsaac http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/#comment-19727 Wed, 25 May 2011 23:28:45 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18099#comment-19727 I heard of trrials like this being run at the Ontario Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Penetanguishene, Canada. Never did hear any good or bad results, though.

]]> By: Munin http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/#comment-19710 Tue, 24 May 2011 12:35:14 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18099#comment-19710 I thought that I had come across this before. It turns out charles Ronson also contributed the same story to a “This American Life” episode in July last year:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/385/Pro-Se

]]> By: Snipergirl http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/#comment-19697 Mon, 23 May 2011 08:45:59 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18099#comment-19697 Bloody interesting article, and at some stage I’ll have to get the ebook (you know, when I get a Kindle etc etc)

I’ve always been kind of fascinated by these abnormal personalities, and certainly the man that Mr Ronson describes in the short Guardian article is one of them.

Also- the Guardian’s quality seems to indicate it’s one of the best newspaper/magazine/publications on the internet these days!

Side note: How intriguing- my pingbacks show up as “recent comments”

]]> By: Victoria http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/#comment-19683 Sun, 22 May 2011 16:29:54 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18099#comment-19683 In my dealings with someone who was later diagnosed as a psychopath, what stands out to me most was how his words were so detached from meaning and action. It was different than garden-variety “lying” somehow. He was aware that others attached meaning to words though, and seemed to find this funny. He was capable of saying “I’m not hitting you” with complete confidence while hitting you (just as one example). This kind of thing was very disorienting to those who dealt with him, to say the least. The assumption that words are attached to their meanings made it suprisingly easy for him to manipulate. Even ordinary lies are often meant to reflect some kind of actuality.

Re: the LSD experiment in the article- that was just peculiar…

]]> By: Snipergirl's Web Log » Blog Archive » The Monster of Amstetten. http://mindhacks.com/2011/05/21/face-to-face-with-psychopathy/#comment-19678 Sun, 22 May 2011 12:41:02 +0000 http://mindhacks.com/?p=18099#comment-19678 [...] Face to face with psychopathy (mindhacks.com) [...]

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