LACKING EMPATHY

 

The photo above is of one famous psychopath, Ted Bundy. Other known psychopaths include John Wayne Gacy ,Jeffrey Dahmer e.tc.
First of all lets begin with the meaning of the word empathy. It can be described as the ability to identify with and understand somebody else's feelings and difficulties.

There is a part of the brain that is responsible for empathy known as the amygdala. This part is responsible for regulating emotions. It is mostly associated with the emotion of fear and anxiety among others.



PSYCHOPATHY IS NOT A BLACK OR WHITE MATTER; ITS A SPECTRUM:

Below is a text I copied directly from a site of an interview on professor Kevin Dutton and this is part of what he said.
 "One of the reason why I wrote the book is to debunk the myth that psychopathy is an all or nothing affair, it’s either black or white.  Now psychopathy like any other personality characteristic or set of characteristics is on a dimension and we are all at some point along that dimension so another way of looking at it is to think of psychopathy as being like the zones on a shooting target.  Ok?  So some of us - we all land somewhere on that shooting target but only a tiny minority fall within the bull’s eye.  Just to say there’s no official dividing line between someone who plays a piano and a concert pianist for instance or between someone who plays tennis and a __ or a Roger Federer. 


If you gain some curiosity you research further and get more conversant.










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