Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of two previous bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness and his latest book -- also a Sunday Times top ten bestseller -- is The Psychopath Test. Jon Ronson lives with his family in London.
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Psychopaths are easy to find, just sign up for online dating. Works like a charm.
....neck and neck with Pathological Narcissists!
I know what you mean
Jane S hahaha!! yes.
Jane jane jane........ so you thought you could avoid me....... run and hide and think I wouldn`t find you..... `me` not be able to hunt you down with this magnificent mind...
Stop online dating Jane.
"We should be defined by our sanity, not our madness" - Well said.
It is genetic. I survived mother/daughter psychopaths. What’s interesting is they had no identity. It’s like what happened to one happened to the other. These people, when their head hits the pillow they go to sleep. They worry about absolutely nothing. No anxiety, no remorse, no guilt and they will run wait staff in the ground waiting on them. It is bizarre behavior. They really are the people that ask “don’t you know who I am?”
Lack of identity sounds more like Borderline Personality Disorder, which is sometimes informally referred to as the female variant of psychopathy.
Excellent talk. A lot of people missed the point that this talk explained how doctors can label anyone as a psychopath and how ridiculous the test for it is. Anything someone says can be twisted one way or another.
Sometimes sociopaths can easily stay with one girlfriend or be married to just one wife for many years - even a lifetime. Usually the wife/girlfriend are a great cover to show their "stability" ... scary indeed.
+Jane Calero Absolutely, if the longterm relationship is useful to them. My father married a narcissist who supported him in return for flattery, and while she was at work, he sexually abused me. He used the mother for money and the daughter for sex. And because I had been admitted to 'treatment' for chronic illness which was typical of incest victims, when I spoke up after seven years of abuse he convinced everyone that my emotional disturbance was evidence of psychosis. Everyone believed him because I was frantic while he was totally controlled, even though if anything that should have supported my case, not his. He completely fooled the quacks in the 'mental health' field - that whole profession is an absolute scam - and he was the perfect example of a psychopath, calmly amused at my powerlessness and never doubting his 'entitlement' to use a child as his sex slave.
Shelagh McKenna Oh how tragic! And the grim reality is experts/professionals can indeed be fooled by socio-psychopaths. This has been documented. These highly trained experts are not 100% in keeping the world safe from these monsters, In fact they rate an approximate dismal 50 to 70%.
+Jane Calero Thank you!
+Jane Calero The fact is that psychology is bogus science. They were guessing motivations which they could not observe, and there was no shareable evidence for their 'findings'. Any real scientist should have nothing but contempt for them. But that's not the whole picture. Psychology supported incest from its inception, covering for incestuous parents by explaining away their victims' behaviours as illness instead of abuse. It was a criminal activity from the beginning. It is probable that my 'therapists' were prepped by my parents who presented me as psychotic to cover their crimes. I remember my parents were emotional in their first sessions (which I attended) and it looked as though they cared about me, but knowing their history I could tell they were just upset at the possibility of being found out. Such people do have emotions, but only for themselves. This fools many people. However, in the face of my explicit reportage of the felonies committed, I must suspect that the 'therapists' were deliberately in on the coverup - that they were not just stupid, but willingly supported incest for reasons of their own.
What you just said: *Such people do have emotions, but only for themselves.* Exactly.
This author's book, The Psychopath Test, is positively brilliant. His tale ends with the development of the DSM, and you will be laughing through his entire journey. I read if after reading his "Men Who Stare at Goats" - and I will sooner or later have read everything he has published. His delivers dry details in a way that has you lying on your side laughing until you have no breath. Read them all. He has a gift, and I'm so glad he shares it with us.
A lot of those traits are also characterized under narcissistic personality disorder and hystrionic personality disorder.
I agree. They kind of all umbrella into each other. None of them are pleasant people.
So true
They are often times co morbid. Meaning, people with cluster B personality disorders can also have antisocial personality disorder (psychopathy), too.
wow 3 comments by literate people
All cluster B's
How to actually spot a psychopath: Look for tiny mistakes in how they present emotions, especially facial language. They’ll have it down perfectly, save for a little mistake, a lack of smile here or an inappropriate smirk there.. Look closely and it becomes apparent that the emotions are being forced consciously, and not organic.. It’s why a psychopath, who spends his life analyzing others’ expressions and emotions can tell a fake (i.e. another psychopath) so easily.. They will also have terrible difficulty expressing surprise. Strongly emotional situations (such as funerals) will be very uncomfortable for them.
It also happens to the victims of narcissistic abuse and people with depression.
@@ST-yc7uj Yeah, so OP's comment definitely does not provide a useful criteria for identifying psychopaths. It sounds like Pop psychology.
I just realized I have been a psychopath for all my life!
Just 1 little problem with your idiotic comment, how about every man who was raised same way I was "men don't cry or show emotions because it's a sign of weakness"? 🤔 By your logic I'm a psychopath because I can't cry because my psychopath dad used to beat me if I cried, or showed any emotion at all really 🤔 Maybe you should think about what you comment before you do buddy 🤔
@@codplayer1978 that actually sounds spot on bud.
The way he makes himself vulnerable is very charming.
I know a couple of these people. The screwed up thing about this is that one psycho recognizes another and it becomes a ruling elite in whatever sphere they are operating. They work in support of each other - the most psychopathic one running the show.
Alice Cotti Psycho's are total realists and they don't put themselves in the position of offending someone who can pay them back - they are totally slimy - sycophants
***** I'm no expert, and I don't think there is any one tell. Generally speaking its a complete lack of conscience that can express itself in many ways. You can be sure that they are playing a very strategic, sycophantic game. They will dress for success, know the right people, know what to say and how to say it. They will do the right things and be free of any moral yardstick. Some could be motivated by power, other with a will to hurt and degrade and others might simply be slaves to their base desires - food, sex, whatever.
The lack of empathy or remorse are key.
Is Donald Trump a psychopath
Ethyl Ruehman no because psychopathic people are smart Donald is not
How to spot a psychopath. The first thing they want is your pity. So watch out for a sad story as in ''everyone is bad to me''.. usually their partner/family..
What us the person is a empathy and they were surrounded by a family of narcsasists...it's very common.
Not necessarily...but your comment tells me that you're a sociopath.
Psychopaths are usually occupying top positions in various companies as they are extremely focus on their own goal and have no problem to bring anyone under if it helps them to accomplish their objectives.
not really I have found the statistics to be much lower than I thought. also once they are found they have to find somwhere else to hide.
Disney is the first thing that come in mind
It's amazing to me that, in reference to Tony, he doesn't mention "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
That was an autobiographical account by the author of an experience they had in an MKULTRA hospital.
I knew three people, two at work and one at college, who I believed were psychopathic. If talking was an Olympic sport, they'd win gold medals. If you stood my co-worker in a field, he'd argue all day about the colour of the grass. I tend to find the real trigger for psychopaths is when they have to do something tangible. That is when they reveal their true colours, the anger, the egoism, the arrogance, the laziness , the fecklessness and passing the buck. When I told other employees about his bad temper they'd look at me as if to say, "Are you talking about the same person?". For the record, I quit in the end.
"Are you talking about the same person?" pretty much says it all. I worked with a weasel just like that.
gedhession sorry for what happened to you. I wanted to ask, do you think anger is unhealthy?
I've been in the same situation many times.
That's it! Ask them to do something to help you, my husband a classic phycopath, would drop large objects from roofspace if I asked him to help me get Xmas decorations down, like it was such a bother to him.
My soon to be X... psychopath. Wld help everyone else but me. Is ALL about games, VERY charming, blows up & you really don't see it coming, doesnt take responsibility, down right MEAN, ALWAYS right, will fight till the end, very self piteous, extremely manipulative, lies like nothing,
They believe that showing emotions is a sign of weakness, extremely controlling and very manipulative. Triggered very easily and super emotionally abusive. Making one feel super insecure so that they can have some sort of control or power over them.
Just because someone has had a variety of these symptoms doesnt make them a psychopath. A lot of abused people will show these traits as well. In fact, I would find it hard to identify a person who has never experienced any of these traits at any point in their lives.
Nah
No the list is for tracking those who do all or most of those things on the list most of the time. This is definitely not normal.
Sociopath is abused in early stages individual becomes as psychopath.
My ex partner who I dated for 4 years had ALL of those characteristics.. thank God I escaped that relationship. I am grateful though, he taught me how to spot a psychopath as well. A lot of pain came from being with him, but I have tied meaning to that pain now.. great video :’)
Mona V. Absolutely agree. Narcissism, psychopathy is A pandemic. I am single On purpose. I have more Assets single than when Married. It’s best to have a 🐈 cat. No more nut jobs Or drama queens .
:28 Psychopath checklist: - Glibness/superficial charm - Grandiose sense of self-worth - Pathological lying - Cunning/manipulative - Lack of remorse or guilt - Shallow affect - Callous/lack of empathy - Failure to accept responsibility for own actions - Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom - Parasitic lifestyle - Poor behavioral control - Lack of realistic long-term goals - Impulsivity - Juvenile delinquency - Early behavior problems - Revocation of conditional release - Promiscuous sexual behavior - Many short-term marital relationships - Criminal versatility
Bill Wilson femmmist
DJT at 1600 Penn. Ave., Wash. D.C. !
@@samreynolds3789 : You'd better watch the video again and this time listen. DJT is not a psychopath.
Thank u.
We adopted a son, he was five when he joined us. He became impossible to live with, violent, refused to do chores, stole anything that wasn't nailed down and we got tired of dealing with cops and the court. He was declared incorrigible and is in foster care. In childhood sociopathy is called Reactive Attachment disorder. He had five convictions in six months, several really bad moments at school that didn't quite break the law, like standing up in language arts and pretending to masturbate in front of a group of seventh graders. Yea, he didn't admit it to me, but it was documented by school. After placing him in foster care, he manipulated the social worker into seeing him as a victim. They filed a restraining order against me. I have tried to have no contact with him. He tries to tell me he misses my cooking, our home, etc. I asked him about his physical abuse of me. He said he couldn't believe he did that. Wrong answer. We have one more court date to permanently terminate our parental rights. My next dog will be larger and trained to protect us. I think he still may come back someday and try to kill us. So far my husband has refused to move. I think it might be safer if we did
Don't take on some bodies life then throw it away somebody else when the going gets tough, shouldn't be allowed children, imagine your next one is a bad child will you give that one away aswel. And don't bother replying because I haven got notifications and I won't be coming back to this video. Anyway stop reading this and g t back to being terrible parents
You weren't physically abused by him. He tried to kill me. My safety is as important as as his. You are rude, even if you don't read this. I was not a bad mom. I tried for ten years. You don't understand
+bh0151 you must be a psychopath
I adopted three times, first was Claire. She was born with an incomplete esophagus. She had other medical problems, too. But she was an easy kid to love. Sadly she only lived seven years. It was an aggressive pneumonia. I almost stopped living, but we had adopted our son, Chris, and he was two years old. So he kept me going. Tough kid to deal with, he is too smart. So he got Legos earlier than he should have and there was Thomas the Tank engine....but he moved on. Was reading adult books about dinosaurs when he was five. He is 18, and still with us. The last adoptee was too damaged. He went through so much on top of his birth mother never creating that first crucial bond. Sure, you can think it was one fight that caused us to surrender him. We sincerely endured hell for years. And then the final year was just one episode to next of horror at his behavior. Condemn, but you didn't live with him. I am not going to take any more kids in. I am now too old in my opinion.
you are really brave. i had like the opposite situation you had. i had to be an outstanding good mannered kid and get top grades while skipped grades WHILE suffering severe abuse and malnutrition and a messed up spine because of it. it all comes down to people's individual choices of humanity, bad people are gauged by their malignant selfishness. since all people have to have a healthy perspective of selfishness to survive, but evil people have malignant selfishness. america is good in freedom to let good people blossom but it also gives the freedom to let bad people blossom, and it's easier being bad, so thats why there seems to be an overwhelming amount today. some people's cores are plain rotten. a rotten apple can't go back to being unrotten.
I lived with someone for 10 years who had everyone of these characteristics! It was so damaging that after that relationship ended, I've never been in another relationship since. I completely no longer trust my judgement about people. I isolate myself and I'm no longer social. I have no other female friends or have been out on a date with another man since. I completely reject any kind of a social or intimate relationships with anyone. He destroyed me in every way possible. I'm only capable of going to work and while there, I present this very different personality, a complete act. I should be given an academy award in recognition! It exhausts me to no end, but it's a matter of survival. I have to work to live. If you encounter one of these people, run! Do not walk, RUN !!! When I say "he destroyed me in every way possible", I'm talking financially, socially, psychologically, emotionally, and physically. I lost everything! The house that I only owed 9 more years on, it would have been paid off! My credit was ruined. My savings all used up, by him! I have family on FB that live in other parts of the country, but I refuse to have my real name and any photos of myself on FB in fear of him getting to them, getting to me! In the end, I had to get a restraining order (or Order of Protection). It's been 10 years, but yet I still will not go on any social media sites using my real identity and photos. Allowing just one of these people into your life EVER could be the worst decision that you've ever made! If you think that you have one in your life right now, devise a plan to get them out of your life and do it! Because if you don't, in the end, you'll be exactly where I am today! You will be damaged beyond repair. ❣💖❣💖❣💖
I agree
I agree with you :'' ((((
Feel like ur a psychopath
When you going to move forward? You're doing nothing with that mindset, stagnant isn't progress.
@@silentsoul5991 -- "If there are no ripples in the water, he'll never know where to find me". You don't quite understand the classic narcissist, they don't ever completely let go of you, because in their mind, they had you hooked before and they, being the narcissist, will always think that they can 'win' you back. Why don't you go find one for yourself and spend 10 years with one of them -- and THEN see if you have it in you to leave any 'snarky' replies on a person's post who has been victimized by one.
Wow. I look back on how my dad was during my critical period of childhood and this list of 20 things- He hits about 16 of the symptoms. Wow, no wonders why I grew to be so damaged, my own parent was a psychopath.
How you doing now ?
To say we're all psychopaths to some degree is just crazy. It's your general state of mind. How you perceive situations. The meanings you give every interaction. The conscious choice to present yourself in a certain way. Blah, blah, blah. To truly understand a psychopath means you'd have to be one yourself. It's good to see one and think "WTF?!"
Patrick Russel tes indeed , even the most apparently psychopathic people are not always psychopaths, you need the tube to be "primary" "cluster b" or "severe" or in the now accepted language since this study... a psychopath , and boy do they want to confuse the word. www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2012/May/The-antisocial-brain.aspx
I think the important question here is... 4:56 HOW DID TONY GET A HOLD OF A PINSTRIPED SUIT AT BROADMOOR?
Lol ikr!
I assumed he brought it with him
You'll know when you hear them playing Hail to the Chief.
Thank you for comments. You saved me time and precious data by pointing out he never reveals anything about spotting a psychopath. I did learn one new thing; they love to hear about themselves. Tell me more about my lack of empathy. I am so much better than neurotypicals.
Spot on conclusion, valuable talk.
Absolutely brilliant....!!!
I am a manic depressive and went to 2 psychiatrists in a state of devastating mental pain and mania. They both thought I was fine, because I am well spoken. I am lucky to be alive. Took me 2 years to finally get lithium prescribed which has been life saving.
Psychopathy can be subconscious as well as conscious. I once had a friend who received a $100 discount off a golds gym membership because he claimed he had prior membership years ago. The absolute persuasion lie in his own being convinced of this fact, until he signed the papers and received his keycard, pulled out his keychain and saw an La Fitness key card where he thought there was a former Golds Gym card. He confessed the next day and the guy laughed and kept it a humble secret.
How do you reckon you can tell the difference between “subconscious psychopathy” and a genuine mistake? Bonus points if you don’t say “that’s something a psychopath would say”.
@@jordonlongley6576 I think at the time I must’ve been referring to something akin to a freudian slip or something. Either that or just pathological fibbing. It honestly has been years since I made this comment so I couldn’t tell you from here. Edit* confabulation fits the bill as well. Telling oneself something so much that it becomes a truth in their mind, or something entirely different as time goes on, is something that happens a lot. It becomes difficult to distinguish this from a blunder if a person does this often.
One of my favourite Ted Talks.
That was the best Ted talk I have heard in a while.
i thought john lennon was shot
lol
jim power he's looks more like Julius Lennon
Julian
He was. Ben Elton is still alive and kicking.
This about covers most politicians
Great help for identifying a psychopath! thank you so much.
I understand that you are saying to judge the individual. when you've been the victim of a psychopath it's extremely hard to think that way.
Loss of time. This doesn't teach how to spot a psychopath..
no it dosent. not completely.
Agreed, this was one of the shittiest TED talks I've ever seen.
There was a list of behaviors at the very beginning
+Joe Public I checked all but one for my daughter. I think she's planning to kill me for my money
Michael Williams - I sincerely hope you are not being serious...?
What I don’t understand is that these are common traits I see daily within people. From my own studies, it seems everyone is a psychopath, just on different degrees; so why is this still a diagnosis? Humanity as a whole is psychopathic.
psychopat is having all these traits at the same time and are born with them, brain structure can easily determine who is psychopath and who isn't iether yo are or you arent there isnt a "i am a little bit psychopath"
You know why? So these so called "good" people had any reason to think they're not this way at any smallest degree, but they are if just the circumstances would have changed
wtf ure on about. u just saying that hints at u being the psychopath in this room. since u dont seem to understand that most of the people are absolutely anything but psychopaths
How well put. 👏
Excellent Job! Very interesting
As far as Tony is concerned, it's not a crime to be a psychopath. I don't believe Broadmoor had any business to keep him once they realised he had faked his madness. I get fed up with people who throw around the term 'psycho' or psychopath without having any idea of what it means. They also assume that anyone who is violent is psychopathic or that psychopaths are always violent. Neither of these is true.
+lea perrins I was married to one. He could quickly become violent if ever told "no", or if I didn't agree with his every opinion, many of which were far off the mark. he was violent to women and children, expecting instant obedience with no argument.
Anne Boleyn Yes, that was YOUR experience(no disrespect intended). Not all psychopaths are violent, as not all violent people are psychopaths. We do not lock people up because we believe they might hurt other people when no crime has been committed. That is against the law. If a person turns violent then it is up to the victim to inform the police so they may do something about it. I have had experiences with violent psychopaths myself. They are certainly unpleasant people.
lea perrins Well, I did to something about it, I escaped illegally from a foreign country with 2 small kids. Four years later he arrived in NZ and then real nightmare began and I couldn't get help from the authorities and he was allowed to stalk and harass me at will. I know all about psychopaths and I know that they are not all violent but what I am saying is that they are quite prepared to use violence when it suits them or their ambitions are frustrated in some way. Since my experience I have been researching for 30 years.
Anne Boleyn Anne I wasn't implying that you didn't try to do anything about it. Do you think your experience justifies locking up a psychopath just because he is one then despite the fact that no crime has been committed? This is what you seem to be saying? My point was that we have no business (or law that supports the action of) locking up people 'just in case' they are going commit a crime
lea perrins I never said anything about locking them up. But in my ex's case he should have been. After being allowed to stalk me and make death threats for 4 years, and after getting into this country illegally - which the authorities knew and had no interest in investigating, and after breaking into my house and living there while my children and I were in hiding. . .there were no consequences of any kind for him. Even after it came to light that he had sexually abused our daughter before we escaped his country, I was told he couldn't be prosecuted in NZ for crimes committed in his country. All they could do was stop his weekend access to our daughters, which he had had for 4 years while our children were in fear of him and forced to go there and even after all my warnings that he was dangerous, they allowed it all to happen. And if not for certain measures I had put in place, he was the type of "father" that would kill his own children to get revenge on me as he couldn't control me. You are projecting your own thoughts onto me I think. I am a human and animal rights activist and have been involved in petitions and campaigns to get innocent people out of prison, even one who was for several years considered an international terrorist. We were able to prove he was no and this got him out of prison.
I’m sure that hospital could find any reason to keep any of us in for any psychiatric reason
Great speech!
This guy is great!
This discribes most of the police force I know of especially when they ve been drinking too much at their favorite bar...cripes pretty darn scary!
Reminds me of the time a drunk off duty officer pulled a gun at the local bar I was at.
This guy needs to meet a Psychopath and then give a talk, you won't know anything on this subject until you've been attacked by one. Oh yeah, it's 5% not 1% of the population.
LOL!!! but seriously i wouldn't wish that on nearly anyone. i would rather be locked for three days in a meter square box with a wolverine and a tazmainian devil than spend 12 hours in a mile squared mashion with a psychopath. they are the worst "things" pretending to be human you'll ever meet.
5% including Sociopaths
The Dark master Most would be totally normal to your eyes. You’d probably like them.. Bit hyperbolic there..
The real percent u will never know! For me it's about 50% or more. Well this is in spectrum and it depends on beholder feeling the person a psyco. Well I am the reject child of a psyco father, so I am on the other extreme and so probably I find ever 2nd person behaving badly to me and feels to me a psyco!! It's way too complex then anyone can imagine. We all are a psyco and Where I lye on the spectrum, there sure is short circuit path to psychopathy. But that's not as dangerous as the pampered child of any psycho or any individual who becomes a pscyo,. That entitlement come from the very beginning of the childhood.
@@thedarkmaster4747 Dehumanizing people, are you sure you aren't one?
fascinating stuff.
Thanks from Denmark
He is so right about this one part - our prison industrial complex is full of pseudo-science... In this country, it is so easy to convict someone to a multi-year prison sentence (or to bully them into taking a plea bargain) using pseudo-science (like lie detector tests, mediocre forensics, mediocre psychology, confirmation bias, jumping to conclusions) and hearsay (like assuming a "victim" is telling the truth making it easy for people, especially women, to abuse the court system to inflict severe harm on others). Meanwhile police etc are given a blank check to mistreat normal people. It's a very sad society where the average person has more to fear from the police state and the prison industrial complex than they do from actual criminals. Of course actual criminals are a very serious problem too don't misunderstand me.
+iamtheone whoiamlight One of the best KZhead comments I have ever read. Ever. I couldn't agree more. I think if more people were aware of the concepts of applied behavior analysis the world would be a much better place. Pseudo science runs rampant.
very true.
"Meanwhile police etc are given a blank check to mistreat normal people." I have experienced this. I live next door to a felon who was placed there by his parents. The police pretend to be social workers. I am a retired woman without even a parking ticket, but somehow the psychopath is favored in every incident and I am ridiculed by police. I think I am living in the twilight zone.
I think that the person he talks about (Tony) who has just got released after 14 yrs is............HIMSELF!!!! HOOOOOHAAAAA!
I also have general anxiety disorder and i am devoted to learn about and spot sociopaths and psychopaths , because i am fascinated by their calmness. I feel anxious almost all the time,sometimes i wish my brain was more like theirs.
No, you don't. A lot of psychopaths and sociopaths end up in prison. Anxiety can be treated with therapy and medication. What can be done with people that cannot understand the feelings of others and have no moral center?
I came here to learn how to spot a psychopath instead i get a story about an idiot.
Usually hold powerful positions in life .
He didn't cover how to spot a psychopath! Misleading title!!!
+Lisa Galarza he did, twice
You didn't watch the video.
I'm not sure you get what the talk was actually about Lisa.
I'll help you my dear.
Many titles are misleading, no?
Thanx
soooooo insightful! :)
In my line of work I became a "reader" I can "read"/see/ people sometime just by looking at them across the street, I can predict what they do and say, I've learned this working deeply with people for long periods of time one on one and it developed into a "certain knowing" as certainty.... So that's why I clicked on this video, I noticed right away that the speaker "has issues" and is "mentally off" he even admits to it but I felt it strongly before he said it ...but he overflows in it so I'm sure other people must have been able to see it .... I also saw and felt and knew when trump lost his mental capacities back around 2006 -2007 he was loosing it ...at this present time he is an "extreme severe case" one off the worst that I can imagine......
this turned into a stand up open mic night, when I thought this was supposed to be a serious talk?
injustice can cause psychopathy and narcissism, discuss - thank you
No it cannot. Those are personality disorders. that means they are part of the person's makeup. They would have had to be that way before the injustice. But it is true that injustices give manipulative persons a plausible soapbox.
May Leaf injustice and abuse can cause non psychopaths to develop psychopathic traits leadng in some cases to unhealthy but neurotypical narcissism, the psychopaths narcissism is whole and complete, they are not just pathological liars and emotional deceivers but that is all they are, nothing but very base desires for control and short term gratifcation of antisocial desires behind an affect or mask. its not up for discussion, you are born with abrain built to become potentuially psychopathic, the signs are there by three - though its called callous conducrt disorder in children and they then grow into psychopaths, not always but the never grow up to be "nice " people. www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2012/May/The-antisocial-brain.aspx not a discussion, you dont develop psychopathy- it happens when a callouys cnduct disordered child is not managed in the correct way early on. even if they re managed some still develop into psychopaths, traits are a whole different matter. it is the lack of conscinece, amygdalae and a connectedness wth other sentient beings of mutual emotion the psychopath lacks, they fake it , and predate from that psostion. this isnt some word game...well it is to the psychopath and thats a big part of the problem, they are often very literal. they like to tie others up with words in fact, the hypnotise and spred ds#ssonance . collectively? this is what is destroying society .
correct.
The number one way you can tell a callous child will grow up to be a psychopath is if they get in trouble and fail to learn from their mistakes. They don’t learn from punishment and will continue to exhibit the same behavior regardless of the discipline. The child I witnessed got busted with pot 3 separate times, twice within the same month and never went to court. After warrants were issued, her psychopath mom threatened her ex to pay her fines or she would make his life miserable which he did. These people are the scariest people on the planet!
Very interesting
Misleading headline. No bullet points for spotting psychopath.
Fabulous Woman yes there was....
Fabulous Woman the first thing he did was put up a list of bullet points.
Yes they did they had that entire list that showed on the screen like 2 times
Because its humanly impossible to spot one.
At least he tried. He looks like a psycho
How about somebody that says: "I want you to proof to me that you love me more than anybody else on this world. I want you to sacrifice your son as proof of your love to me!!! Would that be a psychopath?
you mean, God?
Ummmm...that's so scary
Hm...my brother checks off everything on that list...lovely
Great video
Reading this book and listening to the larger talk, this never really explains psychopathy in a way that I could apply. Good journalism tends to be nebulous, but in topics like these, when people are facing dangerous things, there is an understandable tendency to veer away. This is true in the general approach mental issues to the public at large, but the less we understand or the more we back away or don’t want to define a threat or the more it is obscured the less we are able to fight against it. It seems difficult to say whether people are doing their best with a topic involving dangerous types of people or being careful about playing with fire, but one thing that seems beneficial to people is to explain levels of danger they may actually face. I think we are all going to face this whether we see it or not and there’s not really a limit to the amount of education we need or a line in the sand we do not have to cross.
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You can tell that he is well, different! But good info! I know for a fact that my ex is either socio or psycho path! But he is most definitely a narcissist!
Thanks. No one can plumb the depths of the human psyche!
knowing how to spot a sociopath would probably be more valuable.
I have an easy way to spot a Psychopath. I walk into my house and yell "Honey, are you home?"
Waltham1892 Do you live alone?
@@chinookvalley LoL thats a good one!
Female psychpaths are a rarity. The ratio is approx.19-1. (male to female).
If you want to learn more about psychopaths I might suggest listening to "Sex, love and psychopathic women" to get a picture of how psychopaths feel about life.
Pause the video at 3:01. The guy in the blue shirt in the audience is like, "So you think you know me so well?"
So brave
Probably could have simply put the list up and said thank you...the rest was story telling.
There is NOBODY ON THIS PLANET (no Dr, This or That) can be more of an expert on psychopaths than i am. No offense, but these doctors learned from other doctors before them who also learned from books. I'VE LEARNED FROM A LIFE LONG EXPERIENCE, I know everything about them, even the kind of food they like depending on their mood at the time! I'm 58 and i've been dealing with them all my life! Sad, but true! I wish i dind't have to become such an "expert" on this subject......
So wat would a psycho eat if they just lost there job. But didn't really like the job anyway. And finally decided that it was time to start killing people.
That almost sounds like a Narcissist. Unless you yourself are a Psychopath I don't think anyone could have that intimate of knowledge of the Psychopathic mind.
Kaza Sawyer More than almost.
Kaza Sawyer Someone who dealt/struggled against them all their life do learn their mindset. I am an example among the "too many of us". People who has a narcissist/psychopath parent are conditioned for life to put up with them later on... They become a magnet for these people, and eventually learn to recognize their "traits". You can't learn anything from books or lectures as much as you learn from first hand experience.
I have also been a magnet and know a lot about them from experience (now that I know the name for it), but what Kaza and I picked up on very quickly (likely from our own extensive experience with narcissists) is that you basically waved a huge red flag that reads I am a Narcissist when you stated that "There is NOBODY ON THIS PLANET (no Dr, This or That) can be more of an expert on psychopaths than i am." Narcissist actually believe that they know more than anyone, even experts. It's one thing to say that a particular expert doesn't know something or you know more than them, or that you can spot a narcissist quickly or even that you are an expert (absent of schooling), etc, etc. Saying something along those lines wouldn't necessarily make you an narcissist, but saying that you are the foremost expert in the world based only on your experience (that many people have) is a red flag. You may not be, but your comment made you sound like one. js.
i read his book The Psychopath Test, amazing read
Good.
So he goes in stating how to spot one then completely contradicts everything. I think he's crazy.
number one sign of a psychopath is that they stare at you or look too long because they can't formulate in their brains that they might be making someone feel uncomfortable, they have no sense of empathy
spindlegrinder also a perpetual business, the only time they are still is if they are reading or watching, you will catch them watching you then suddenly looking away. The less you react to them the less the "see" you like the dinoosaurs from jurassic park 1
How many times am I going to hear this same exact story about Tony from a bunch of different people
13:46 - Wow, good advice.
I'd be interested in this author or someone like him doing a book on psychiatric institutionalization as a socioeconomic and geopolitical instrument, to silence opposing views and strengthen prevailing social structures via predatory and under handed means
erm ok thnks
weewilly2007 www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2012/May/The-antisocial-brain.aspx www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%20on%20ronson%20april%2017%202012.pdf
Wonder what your intentions are Tarquin Mahoney, in your oh-so-helpful suggestions on reading material. Regardless of my passing interest on the subject and motivation in keeping informed on all current matters, still don't see how advisable it is to dwell or delve so deeply on such morbid topics. Unless it is a condition you grapple with yourself, in which case you have my condolences. My own interest in contrast, would relate much more to "institutional or systemic insanity" if you can call it that. Something I suspect, does not just involve physical abnormalities in the brain of individual offenders, but would relate to much larger numbers within society, working in tandem as part of "social machinery" Whereby individuals working within systems strive to manipulate mechanisms of power and control for their own self advancement, so that it is not just personalities at work , but procedures, protocols and trans-activity between the various members of society, all operating within the given framework, but all looking out for number one (themselves and those who would be in their own interests to protect) Leading to corruption, deception and duplicity being a matter of course, and inducing or coaxing violence, crime, as well as madness, as routine.
weewilly2007 "... still don't see how advisable it is to dwell or delve so deeply on such morbid topics. ..." Once you have one in your life that you didn't spot until it was too late, you'll see that being able to identify these people is advisable.
good point, is it hereditary you think, or systemic like I believe, bit of both probably. But which one is more alterable? Not without the other being affected too right? Maybe we should ask the exeprts at King's College. You seem to know what you're talking about though!
Psychopaths are sane. They know exactly what they’re doing.
In the first 20 seconds, I SO wish he had come out with Xray Specs.
I came here after seing is name on the prom for Ted2012. And I'm glad I did.
he's got that Woody Allen, wussy, neurotic behavior down...
We live in the time where everyone want to be psychopath
I hate to reveal myself, but I feel no remorse telling you that this was superb! ;-)
Once you see you can't unsee. They're everywhere!
No offence but that speach was was all over the place
Sean Smith www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%20on%20ronson%20april%2017%202012.pdf so is he, hes ...welll... hes a psychopath basically , the soft voice and stumbly manner are very much forced affect he adopted early in life to assume the role of professional victim.
+Tarquin Mahoney You are doing the same thing Robert Hare says in his letter not to do.
Tarquin Mahoney kn
Sean Smith speech
"speech"
I thought this was “How to spot a psychotherapist”. Shoot.
His documentary is very interesting.
Narcissist Free its bullshit.www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%20on%20ronson%20april%2017%202012.pdf this is what the doctor hes quoting says about him.
Hmm, someone I know fits all of these except the last. His wife left him, but they never actually divorced. He just goes from one woman to another because formalizing the divorce and marrying is too much trouble. He has 13 kids that I know of, didn't support any of them, including refusing to help pay for his son's funeral after he died of meningitis at age 15. This man was my boss for two months. That was two months too long. He fired me and defrauded me of unemployment. Sad thing is, he's still out there destroying people's lives.
How about the fact that he fails to mention at the beginning, psychopaths love to talk about themselves? [The first indicator of a psychopath.] Could *he* not be the psychopath on the room? After all, for the period of the talk, (and for the length of time we each listened), *he* was controlling 100+ people, (not to mention each of us)! [Which is the second indicator of a psychopath he gave!]
not really everyone likes tot alk about themselves that is not an indcator unless you mean to an excessive point where it could be considered as psychopathy.
Ok this was one of the worst Ted talks I've ever heard. Was there some point to this? Or was he just working off his caffeine buzz?
He speaks very rapidly, sometimes turning his head away from the microphone, and I can't catch about a fourth of what he says.
... And the generalised anxiety too. His book is the same: entertaining and appalling but not edifying
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Ray Garcia are you mad because you’re a psychopath?
Lmao he is tony but flipped, ultrahospital ya dig
I think these terms like psychopath and sociopath are handy little assignments to place people who are "disturbed" in some way in a category. The definition he shows is basically describing a typical child.
The last sentence is so true.
i learned absolutely nothing watching this bs
you think you're so cool but you're not
thanks xoxo
Obviously, he's doesn't have the education to understand all the tricky vocabulary.
Me, either. An ambiguous anecdote does not a principle make.
what he is saying is that the diagnosis for psychopath is becoming a loose term that applies to just about everyone rather than a hardcore diagnosis which is set just for bad people serial killers murderers rapists etc just about everyone could be diagnosed a psychopath these days.. the diagnosis is too vague and broad in other words
Ron Jonson never really says anything he just rambles like a schizophrenic. It's one big sentence.
rambling is not schizorphrenia, neither is incomplete or incomprehensive angered speech or sentence structure or frantic action, also the enemy's accusations against people its all to serve the beast, and labeling by doctors are just more psychopathic warfare.
Mande Loo I had trouble understanding him because I had the volume on full blast but the problem is it's a cell phone so I cannot adjust it if I was on a computer I could so I had trouble hearing it and his voice kept dropping down. but he didn't give as much information as I thought he would and this was entertaining but not really that informative
There are no signs until you take something away from them that threatens them.
Well it is interesting that I am here considering what I've been diagnosed with. DID, anxiety, depression, issues with feeling emotions and schizophrenia