Similarly, a married man, though he has a wife, can feel a sense of lack sexually. This sense of lack can lead him to rape a female subordinate at work.
Describe the core behavioral characteristics of the criminal psychopath. Name and describe any five instruments used to measure psychopathy. What is the difference between criminal psychopathy and mental disorder?
a. The core characteristics of the criminal psychopath are a lack of empathy, egocentricity, lack of shame or remorse, and tendency for lying and manipulation
b. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist is a psycho-diagnostic tool used in tandem with the broader PCL-R inventory to measure a person's psychopathic profile.
The Psychopathic Personality Inventory is a self-report survey used to comprehensively index personality traits without explicitly referring to anti-social or criminal behaviors themselves.
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory measures various components of person's personality with a self-report inventory. Each component is measured by a special scale, such as the Psychopathic Deviate scale, which indicates psychopathic tendencies.
The California Psychological Inventory is another self-report inventory composed of 434 items that utilizes everyday language to describe psychological behavior. It uses socialization as one of the 18 scales.
The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory is a self-report inventory composed of 175 true-false questions that is designed to identify signs of specific personality disorders, which is measure with the Antisocial Personality Disorder scale.
c. Mental disorders are usually diagnosed exclusively through behaviors, whereas a Psychopathy is diagnosed through behaviors along with certain affective and interpersonal personality factors. Thus, Psychopathy can be seen as a subset of a broader class of mental disorder, known as Antisocial Personality Disorder. A person diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder may not necessarily be diagnosed with Psychopathy but a person diagnosed with Psychopathy will necessarily be diagnosed...
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