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Most recent working title: Psychopathy: A brief overview

What “Psychopath” Means by Hal Arkowitz

This article is about what psychopathy means and states myths that are commonly protruded about psychopaths. Common sense seems to dictate that psychopaths are “remarkably normal,” but the psychopaths seem this way because they make a good first impression. But the psychopaths are truly just self-centered, untrustworthy and independable. They make decisions that are irresponsible “for the sheer fun of it” and for no processed logical reasoning. The psychopaths so not feel emotions such as love, empathy or guilt. For this reason, the psychopaths exhibit reckless, outrageous behaviors and then blame others for their actions. The actions committed are impulses that the psychopaths have which cannot be controlled because the psychopath does not “learn from his or her mistakes”. Most psychopaths are actually male, but sex is not a determining factor in psychopathy. Hal Arkowitz acknowledges that there are many myths about the topic psychopathy. the first myth is that all psychopaths are violent which is not true. Psychopathy is a risk factor for physical and sexual violence, but it is not always the case. on the other hand, not all violent people are psychopaths. The second myth is that all psychopaths are psychotic. Mostly all psychopaths are usually lucid and rational. They know what they are doing is wrong, but they do not care about the consequences. The third myth is that psychopathy is untreatable. Psychopathy is treatable with extensive therapy. The article does a good job summarizing what psychopathy means.

Works Cited: Arkowitz, Hal. "What "Psychopath" Means." Scientific American Global RSS. N.p., 28 Nov. 2007. Web. 29 May 2014. .