Real Life Psychopaths (Crime Psychology Documentary) | Real Stories
Psychopaths probably make up around 20 per cent of the prison population in both the USA and Britain. They are four times more likely to re-offend than other released prisoners, yet they are just as likely to get parole. Little is known about the minds of psychopaths and what is really behind the horrific things they do - but Equinox tackles the subject in this insightful documentary. Professor Robert Hare - consulted by the FBI and British Home Office - is the undisputed oracle on the psychopathic mind.
In Psychopaths, he reveals stunning new evidence behind their behaviour, and suggests people should look to the brain for clues and not bad upbringing. This programme examines the Psychopathy Checklist, IQ distribution and blending in to social norms; and reports the peculiar phenomenon that treatment programmes make psychopaths re-offend earlier and more aggressively.
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Don't forget, just because they aren't engaging in direct person-to-person violence, doesn't mean they aren't actively hurting people through business practices, policy-making, manipulation, and other methods.
Eg, Trump
Oh yes - I saw this sort of thing happen at Disney when I was there.
What happened did you lose your spine/we all know who'm you're referring to
Many employers do that from various professions. Painting their employees in a negative light behind their back via underhand
@@user-ki9xh6ol8r it's not just ONE person.
The fun part for the rest of us is that functioning psychopaths and sociopaths can rise to high levels and many become politicians or CEOs of large companies.
or "elite"
Yes, the ones who can stay organised enough to be able to climb the ladder of their chosen position. Many of them think they are way more intelligent than they actually are - usually to their detriment. Some are so low thinking and disorganised their lives are constant turmoil.
@@debralucas9519i wouldn't say "many of them" think they can are more intelligent than they actually are. I'd say that some are, but generally speaking, most are fairly clear on where they stand in terms of intelligence. Normally those who have more of the narcissistic and grandiose tendencies and characteristics of anti-social personality disorder (ASPD) are usually more prone to having a false or inflated sense of their own intelligence and intellectual ability. Also the lower IQ perons with ASPD/psychopathy, as well as those who have very high characteristics and tendancies of narcissism, usually tend to be more prone to violence and criminal behavior. Of course there are always some exceptions to this, and it's important to keep in mind that psychopathy is very much a spectrum, and that genuine ASPD psychopaths make up a very small percentage of the population.
I remember in psychology class in college. My professor asked the class which professions are usually psychopaths are in. I was the only one who raised the hand and when called I said “politicians” she did say anything and looked back in the class and asked the same question. No one raised their hands so she said the answer - CEOs. I guess she wanted the class to gasp on the answer because she said prior to asking the question “you will not believe which profession psychopaths are according to psychology.” 😂😂😂 Aside from CEOs, I’m also sticking with my answer- politicians!
One in particular comes to mind !
Over the course of my 30 plus corporate career, I worked with industrial psychopaths who were promoted due to high performance but who were also ruthless, manipulative, narcissistic, etc. Many companies turn a blind eye to behaviour in favour of performance. Sad but true. 🇨🇦
That is the main problem with these people in management. They can cause a great deal of pain and suffering for employees under their continued employee. I've seen this happen all throughout my life. What is troubling is how prevalent it has become over the years. Upper managment is excepting these people as management more and more.
Oh to get to those positions they trampled over everyone and anyone to get there, most of the time. They always put profit over morals values and of course other people.. They can do horrible things and lie in your face about it and to them it's like talking about the weather.. They feel nothing for anyone else or about anything they've done to other's, but master manipulation when it benefits them. So very charming and charismatic but eventually they show you who they really are..
yes and they use all that money they get to force other people to economically depend on them and have them under their control. my dad is a crazy psychopath and that's exactly what he did to us
How do you know they were "psychopaths"? Are you qualified to diagnose mental disorders? My guess is you are trying to justify why others were more successful and promoted over you.
True And this is the vast and widespread damage they cause. They are everywhere - just as they said earlier in the video they are in every facet of life. Like my aunt from the south would say - “They ain’t all locked up”!
As an Exec Coach and having worked with senior leaders my entire life, I can attest to this. Some of them are very charismatic, inspiring and charming with an ability to destroy people and cause an immense amount of trauma to people and organizations.
Agreed but if the organization promotes them and puts up with their destructive behavior maybe it deserves the damage done? It's just too bad they drag everyone else down.
Exactly! Organizations often lack the courage to remove these people from their positions or worse, protect or promote them as they may be viewed as "too valuable" to the bottom line when in fact, they are costly in the long-run. @@damienholland8103
Holy spirit and prayer with Bible study is my pysche diet while it's in my pysches health care All Scripture is inspired of God+ and beneficial for teaching,+ for reproving, for setting things straight,+ for disciplining in righteousness,+ 17
I've seen this behavior first hand and it makes me feel that psychological evaluations should be mandatory to get into upper management positions.
@@VestalNumbrestick with your meds
Be careful of people who are overly charming and/or charismatic
I have seen people who were excellent parents - provided love, security etc. and their kid grows up to be a not-so-good human being. I have seen bad or absent parents who have a child grow up to be a much better person than their parent. It has to be something in the brain. The Dr. In one scene described it perfectly - they are like someone who is colorblind. They are blind to emotion and empathy.
Have you read about the Dark Triad? It shows there are many factors in determining how a human can develop
Ted bundy was apparently an alright dad. Psychopathy isn’t a diagnosis. The disorder is antisocial personality disorder. They don’t have any empathy for anything and learn it instead. It’s easy for them to put their knowledge to be perfect to a relationship.
@@dunki-dunki-dawgsome kids have parents that are perfect but still turn out bad.
Yes, it's in the DNA
@@dunki-dunki-dawg yes, I know about dark triad. I also believe all of us have a characteristic or two of narcissism. I know myself, upon learning about dark triad discovered when someone wrongs me, I tend to go Machiavellian. I can wait a long time - lol. I never realized there was a name for it! I find all this psychology and science so interesting. I wish I could go back in time and stay in college etc.
If you look in their eyes while they are speaking and you start to look for the emotional being living inside, you’ll soon realize nobody’s home.
Not all of the time, sadly.
They are crafty and have learned how to act by watching others but they feel nothing for anyone else’s life. Ted Bundy. The only thing they feel is the rush of the hunt and the kill. They are predatory animals adept at conning people into thinking they are caring individuals.
If you look in a pschpaths eyes long enough they get uncomfortable. I think this is because they know some if us can spot them.
Absolutely true, its like seeing into coldness
Oh. So you've met my mother.
I don’t think psychopaths can be rehabilitated because I think they are intelligent,charming and manipulative and say whatever it takes to get out of prison!
Yes people with aspd are very charming
Especially since they are born this way! What do they think they can do?
@@rhondatallent2396 They make perfect politicians
@@sociallypatterneddefect9580Agreed 🤝
On the other hand so who would not say?
I have a female relative who is one. Where ever she goes, she will find a way to psychologically/emotionally damage someone she meets-like its her 'hobby'. She is scary, I,ve hid from her for years. AND -when they know that you know-then you are in more danger.
True
Toxic narcissists are dangerous when they know you know. They try to make your life miserable via smear campaigns and chaos. Psychopaths are a higher level of evil though. It would be frightening to have a psychopath family member. Remain your distance and stay safe. 🙌🏼🤍✨🕊️
I know someone just like this. She seems to thrive on it. She has driven away everyone who ever loved her. It is terribly sad but truthfully, she is dangerous. Definitely diabolical as far as scheming and manipulating and the lengths to which she will go.
@@primesspct2I think everyone knows one or more.
i wonder where they get the energy to constantly try to manipulate others cause that must be exhausting
My cousin was both born and made. She was highly abused and took that experience into her adult life and built a mannerism to attract a specific type of man , then destroys them financially and emotionally. It's as if she seeks her revenge on all men. She is extremely skilled at her game. One husband was put in prison. And she got the old family money. Truth is stranger than fiction.
My mother seeked revenge too. I realised that in my forties.
Psychopaths are very good at manipulating authority figures and law enforcement to accomplish their evil ends. Prosecutors and judges need to be aware of this.
@@peterfreiling6963very true 😮
She may likely have been a raging narcissist or sociopath. It is understood that psychopaths are capable to kill, sociopaths not but both bring immeasurable destruction to humanity in unthinkable ways.
@@elkadosh4726Bruh... You clearly don't know what you are talking about. In psychology, sociopathy = psychopathy, it is the same thing. Go read real studies and stop saying bull$hits.
Not every murderer is a psychopath, and not all psychopaths are murderers. They ALL destroy lives, though....
But all killers are purely evil people.
Children abusing and destroying animals is a sign of psychopathy.
They grow up to be criminals.
What? I think that is a bit of a blanket statement. Surely, these are not good signs, but I think it is impossible to outright condemn children for such behaviour. I'm aware of both children who did such things when we were kids and didn't turn out negatively at all, and also children that never did anything alarming, yet turned out pretty bad. So,I opt for a big "no" on your statement.
@SynomDroni It's true, they all turn out to be psychopaths. The ones you think turned out well are actually functional psychopaths -- most of our politicians and CEOs
Absolutely. I had a dog when living with my daughter's father 38 years ago - every time he went near her she would piss - a clear indicator that someone is NO good - the dog KNOWS. Needless to say, after my daughter was born - me,.dog and baby rolled. Lady the dog lived 14 years.
Child abuse not children abusing
Treatment only makes them worse because they can pretend to have empathy and care about people and pretend to be sensitive. Give up, it's a waste of time and money. They cannot and will not change. Ever.
I want to make my point. But the utube keeps deleting my comments. Tf???🙂
Boom exactly, when I went to prison my barrister sent a psychologist to do a evaluation on how I got to this point. I knew I had to lie and deceive to play out this story like it was all the drugs blah blah blah to receive a lower sentence. Told the same to the parole board 4 and half years later. No amount of prison will rehabilitate me, that’s a fact.
one of the intelligent smartest comments ever ive read. thats true. i am psycho.
I used to watch these old documentaries years ago when this channel was still called Barcroft Docs. So many of them got deleted for copyright and are now impossible to find. I wish there was a broader online library of these 1980s-early 2000s documentaries, they are fascinating. Some of my favorites were the one about British single fathers, the I Married a Maasai, the breast implant one, the gynocomastia one, the one about crossdressers in marriages, and the one about young girls with eating disorders.
I remember when that was the name of the channel! I wish there were more documentaries like that available today. They really stuck with me.
They may be available at your local library. Might be worth checking out (no pun intended).
I looked for the Chanel and it's gone
There are 4 or 5 additional channels with similar content in the description of this one. I don't think they are the exact one you're looking for but there are lots of interesting docs.
They rebranded and aren’t called barcroft anymore. Its Truly now
Severe childhood trauma/neglect shrinks the Amygdala in children
Some children who become sociopaths and NPD spend early years in hospital for illness. They are unable to properly form attachments to primary carers. It is a mixture however of nature and nurture. 😊
Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made due to such a childhood.
@@StellaAdler_ I don't believe the word sociopaths is used anymore. It is just psychopath now.
@@AK-47-yallwell there's a few major differences so they can change whatever they want but much like many of their other findings they would be wrong.
So it's my fuckin parents, the cops, doctors that killed me together? My mom said she never will let me get surgery and they won't let me have a job. What can I do to get u people to not kill me
That part when the guy walks by and says "this programs a sham"...
Yes, caught that, and he is right. Sad but true. Prisons in the US are businesses, privately owned companies, so even though everyone knows these counseling programs don’t work, and they especially don’t work with psychopaths and most sociopaths who are locked up, it’s good for the business to keep pushing them.
dude is comparing touching the stove to feeling empathy- brah, no, those are literally the opposite of one another. one is learning to avoid hurting yourself, the other is about not wanting to hurt others
Yeah I noticed that too. Very not the same thing.
He’s literally incapable of empathy. Comparing it to having consequences is the closest he is capable of understanding the concept.
Documentary released in 2000 for anyone who cares.
I do, Thank you!
Thank you !
Thank you!!!!
That was two blinks ago for me. 😂
Thank, ive been trying to figure it out
If the psychopath is manipulative, can't they easily manipulate the psychopathy test?
Yes, if the individual is smart enough.
There are checks and balances in psychological testing to pick out those who are faking/lying. But yeah, they can if they can figure out to get around those.
Yes if their IQ is high enough. Being very intelligent and a psychopath is a bad combo
Yes, most definitely they can.
@@rinbailey1503 this is why someone not educated in giving these psychological tests should armchair diagnose others or definitely themselves.
One of the biggest disservices KZhead does is not put a date on the original content. When did first air and where?
I read in the comments this aired in 2000.
@@deannehuizenga4845 Thank you very much. The reason I wanted to know is, recently the physiologic sciences are leaning toward psychopathic tendency being a learned (but not from bad parenting) construct vs a genetic defect. Thank you, your note helped.
@@lissanne9769 Yes. Me, as well
@@lissanne9769 My understanding is that there are some 8 alleles associated with reduced empathy in humans. I’ve even read that there are some 13 alleles implicated - so I’d be interested in knowing the source claiming it’s primarily the result of nurture vs. nature. Childhood environment may serve to reinforce the worst inclinations or to direct behavior towards socially acceptable avenues - but regardless, the fundamental proclivity remains. When you speak of psychopathy being “learned,” you have to realize that children with the predisposition towards psychopathy usually grow up in a household where one of their parents is also a psychopath - namely the one they inherited the trait(s) from. To the extent that the other parent is normative, s/he opted to pursue a relationship with a disordered individual - so their capacity to identify deviant behavior and deter it wouldn’t likely be all that developed. So any theory about the environment being the root cause is necessarily complicated by these factors.
@@jenniferlynn3537 Your correct in that there is a lot we do know about psychopathic individuals. I feel that there is so much more we don't understand about this disorder. More research must and is still going on here.
For everyone who’s asking: there are no current new discoveries, prof. Hare is still main authority in the field.
They have been taken over by critical race theory and are attending to the transgender avalanche
thats because they are just demon possessed people
Psychopaths don't believe they're damaged. Empathy and kindness are a waste of time.
Yes, often times to them the empath is the weak/ damaged person
To them kindness makes you a fool.
If a psychopath knows not to commit a crime if there is a police officer present, they then know full well they should not commit the crime. In other words, they know full well exactly what they are doing is wrong. They CHOOSE to follow their desire to do wrong. Can't pity them when it is a choice.
Please! You must NEVER ALLOW Wayne to get out of prison!!!
And please put Trump in prison and away from the public.
@@Albert-Mag... let’s put you in prison in solitary
@@severusferdinand6778if Albert-mag is facing 91 felony charges like Trump than I agree. Not with solitary confinement cause that’s literal torture but I’m sure they love ‘em in gen pop. Orange jumpsuit, orange face and orange hair? He’s gonna look super stylish. Kinda like a packet of cheese crackers.
What happens if you show psychopaths pictures of themselves suffering? What brain patterns are we seeing then? The same as when they look at others suffering?
Good question!
Psychopathy is a spectrum just like autism. The issue is that behavioral science isn’t advanced enough to understand the human mind.
They don’t feel fear or sadness so…
Maybe the same as they see other's? Or maybe even laughing? 🤔
@@kateashby3066 Maybe they feel angry? I just wonder if there would be any visible difference in the brain when they see themselves compared to seeing others. Don‘t know if anyone had ever tried that. Assumptions we can make a lot based on what we know, it would be interesting to look at it.
No matter what you do, they just can’t be “rehabilitated.”
Agreed. They typically don't see their behavior as problematic since they get what they want and don't care what it costs others, literally.
Idk if that's fully true but definitely don't be credulous. People think Jeffrey Dahmer became an angel in prison and I don't buy it at all.
In that case maybe the old-fashioned lobotomy or totally drugged up the rest of their lives.
one of my very good friends in highschool had a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, many called him a psychopath. I liked him, he said he liked us too "in the sense that it was more fun to be with us than it was to be alone" but that was kind of just his best way of expressing affection.. he had no desire to cause somebody physical harm, but he didn't have a lot of respect for rules or authority that he deemed unnecessary and acted accordingly. he did hurt our feelings sometimes and didn't really understand why we were upset, One time he even asked if I was making it up when I told him something he said hurt my feelings. But he was a good friend, a funny and smart guy, he helped me not fail trigonometry lol.
As a neuroscientist specializing in addiction I'd argue that psychopathy has a limbic system element that not only includes the amygdala & the PFC/OFC but also the nucleus accumbens (NAc) which functions in pleasure seeking & habit formation. Psychopaths often report feeling less pleasure from typically pleasant things than non-psychopaths n therefore feel the need to participate in extreme behaviors in order to feel "average/normal" pleasure/excitement. Also similar to addictive disorders psychopaths often escalate their extreme behaviors as time progesses. Gauging the extent of this deficit as well as how it escalates towards habit formation in psychopaths could definitely reveal some potential avenues for intervention.
I thought psychopaths actually decrease antisocial behaviour with age though.
Supposedly. But, Narcissism usually grows worse. I imagine it's an across the board thing with the Dark Tetrad.
My sister is a psychopath, my father and mother were both narcissists. I seem pretty well adjusted considering what I grew up in. I will say I don’t get attached very easily.. ❤
That’s a difficult early journey. 😳 Respect that you don’t trust people. I hope you’ve chosen to break off from them.
I took a sociopathy evaluation, and was surprised to learn that I'm about 3% more sociopathic than your average person. It's not a big number, but it hurt me a bit. I like to think I'm a pretty empathetic person, but apparently I'm a bit less than average. I would guess that 3% comes from trauma and being very bitter and distrusting towards people in general. When the people who matter most to you, who are supposed to keep you safe, hurt you, how could you ever be much of a people person? 😕
Eh, someone who tells people that every member of their family has some sort of personality disorder is usually the one with the personality disorder.
@@HHHKingofKings58 It's a bit like saying that to someone who is bullied by others at school that they must be the one doing it, or else that it is only imagination or justified.
@@HHHKingofKings58Gotcha! Found the psycho!
He said what about the successful psychopaths that might still be out there? *SUCCESSFUL* that is so scary to think of☹️
Yeah, there in business, all over .
L no o
You should be far more worried about narcissists- who far outnumber ASPD’s and are just as capable of violence and killing (Chris watts, Anthony Todt, and Casey Anthony are all narcs. Not psychopaths. Ps- in America 1% of the population are ASPD, and only half of those are the violent/impulsive types. So that means 1/200 people can be this^ type. Not great but farrrr from the 5-15% that are narcs!
@@kateashby3066narcissists can also be psychopaths
@StanCat4 I've read recently that all psychopaths are narcissistic but not all narcissists are psychopaths.
I found the ginger psycpath in prison’s thoughts about conscience very interesting. It made it utterly clear he hadn’t understood the concept, at all. Even if they destroy the lives of the people around them they themselves lead very sad lives, it must be totally empty and pointless to not be able to connect to other people, and to never be able to experience selfless and generous love. I pity them.
Valid point.
That's what I was thinking too. It was almost kind of funny - he's so far out there in terms of the human experience that he thinks he has an understanding, when in reality, he doesn't grasp the basic concept.
Looks like that guy with the long, curly blond hair wears his skull on the outside.
He did have a look, didn't he
Uncle Creepy from the 1970's comics.
Skeletor
Yeah a creepy dude for sure. Please keep him in a cage, he gives off very Creepy vibes.
I was a victim of a few Psychopaths at work who worked alongside each other. The bullying and manipulation I endured after getting transferred left me with elevated anxiety and depression. Most people today have psychopath tendencies nowadays they have no remorse for the pain and anguish they might inflict on the other because of avarice or jealousy.
There wasn’t anyone higher up that could stop the bullying? Or at least a co-worker that wasn’t cowardly? I was never rlly bullied but some of my friends were, I just remember when I was rlly young being maybe overly emotional. As I was coming to that age of really understanding how brutally unfair the world rlly is, I’d have to leave wherever I’d been if I saw someone with a handicap or a disorder. Spent a lot of time in the hospital as I was a sickly kid and it was completely overwhelming as I def had it better than 99%, as I had two kidneys had one bitten the dust. I suffered from massive anxiety as well. Panic attacks that lead to vertigo. Nothing like being convinced your heart is going to explode as you can’t tell which way is which/have your chest feel like it’s on fire or not be able to sleep to the point your sitting up in bed, wide eyed watching dust particles as if they’re snowflakes in the wind. Unfortunately, it all lead to isolation and drugs as I just wanted to be numb as I became as mean as fear is strong. I’m sorry you had to deal with that, I can only imagine how brutal it is in middle school/high school but as an adult who just wants to get the 9-5 over with and get tf home. It must feel completely intrusive/degrading. Karma’s a MF’er tho. Those folks are usually cowards as they pile up on someone or go for someone non threatening but one day they’ll say the wrong thing to the wrong person and get their comeuppance. Just a matter of time. Hope all is well tho. Keep fighting pound for pound.
I think approximate filming date and/or original release date should be stated in the title of these reposted documentaries. At minimum in the description. We need this info for context. I saw this years ago. Good documentary.
Especially because there were so many advances in neuroscience and we now can comprehend better how psychopathy is ‘born’
I would think so they could look at the activity in both brains and see how they respond to emotional stimuli, but I'm only guessing.
They will never change 😢
I wonder if they ever let Wayne out after his time served? I really hope not because he will always be very deadly.
And why is Wayne only charged with his sexual abuses and not for the horrific murder of his brother?
@@grizzlybear4 I think he got a plea deal to confess and avoid solitary at the Max prison and escape the death penalty. I read something along those lines but I think because of his Psychopathy score of 40/40, and it being very rare (a pure psycho) they wanted to study him and to use him for insight into the disorder, to hopefully develop a treatment.
I hope they will always find loopholes to keep him locked up. They know the dangers of his release.
@@elkadosh4726 I often wonder how they come to release people after their sentences have expired when they know a person has a personality disorder and have also murdered someone in cold blood.
@@dunki-dunki-dawg where did you read this? I've been trying to find more info about him
Money and time should be spent on these abused children NOT these perverts!
They study them to figure out what makes them tick. Eventually someone smart enough will figure it out while the psycho is still a child and prevent abuse/unaliving as that person gets older
Unfortunately sometimes they become the same people.
My ex was diagnosed as a sociopath. He has narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. The amount of dysfunction he spread was astronomical. Every person he's ever come in contact with, he has manipulated and used for his own gain. When he was diagnosed, they basically told him there was nothing they could do to help him and sent him on his way despite his insistence on harming himself and others. What became apparent in that moment is that these professionals make their money off of the people sociopaths and psycopaths take advantage of. I believe more research is needed because until we figure out these people among us without empathy or compassion, that wreak havoc on people's lives, we risk their damaging influence upon those who are most vulnerable.
that psychopath played those doctors like a fiddle
That was my take, too.
I also might add that when they're fixed on 1 person. It doesn't matter how many years it takes to achieve what they're trying to achieve. Even if that is just to make the person fearful of them. Literally they will stalk them for years
Dr Hare should do a case study on my Ex. He is not a criminal but he has tendencies. He is a retired police detective with a Masters in Psychology. He is very smart - just ask him. He doesn't think behavioral norms, laws or even civility apply to him. He is a master narcissist and, in my opinion, a psychopath. He has zero compassion or empathy and he doesnt have any trouble sleeping at night after destroying someone - it doesn't matter who. Just bloody thankful, I got out alive but he cost me everything.
Ditto almost
Psychopaths flock to jobs like police officers bc there they can execute power over people
Hi Barbara, seven years later, I’m still healing from a narcissistic manager of 17 years. It cost me friendships, my career, my sanity. No one could help me because they thought he was just a jerk. Thank you for your post, in a nutshell, they lack empathy and basic respect for others, including the business owners I brought in. He seemed to delight in sending them inferior rock salt that would have to be sent back after it ruined their customers salt spreaders. He never got reprimanded, I did, for saying something on their behalf. He even got my $500.00 bonus check and I wasn’t allowed to bring in more business. This happened in Detroit, Michigan. I wish I knew then what I know now. But I can assure you, they are EVERYWHERE.
@@jillfoley6834 .... his name wasn't Ralph is it??? Lol
Soooo many of the Cluster B Personality types esp psycho, socio toxic narcs and anti socials in policing/para military.
If you can determine if someone is a psychopath using brain scans I wonder if you can find if someone is an empath using the same method.
I think if psychopathy doesn’t show on scan the person falls into the empath spectrum automatically.
@@SniperLogic ah okay that makes sense.
There is more information now that empaths are basically traumatized people who have learned to be hyper vigilant about people’s emotional states for survival purposes.
@@dragonfly961 I can understand that. I was raised in an abusive house hould with my alcoholic mother and her alcoholic boyfriend. And I was the youngest child. So I picked up on a lot of body language and facial cues that helped me know what they were feeling. No matter how hard they tried to hide it.
@@SniperLogicThat doesnt make sense whatsoever. Those two are vastly different from one another. U can be neither - psycho or empath. Not everyone is either or.
My ex boyfriend is a psychopath. He used me, treated me terribly, and had absolutely no awareness of what an a-hole he is
That describes a narcissist. Psychopaths are also narcs but they’re also incapable of shame- and capable of antisocial traits- making them far worse. Of course malignant narcs are on the border
Poor you.
@@thefrankiepalmeri that's some solid empathy right there, thank you 🙌
Ooof someone's still salty.
@@bipolarwanderer 😂 funny
There’s no curing people who have absolutely no insight into their own behavior. Even non psychopaths have this issue. Sometimes people are just evil.
Fantastic documentary, really insightful and informative. I never had a social upbringing and made me ponder my and my family life. I believe that people lower on the psychopathic scale can become better human beings. I'll do all i can to raise my kids better equipped with empathy and kindness. Love the older documentary styles too ✨️
Guy passing by him says, “The program’s a sham. Quit lying to these people.”
I have met a few in my life, scary stuff
Me too.
Same
Even scarier is that lots of people think they haven't. it's 1/100 people. We've all met them.
This part from the 45th minute onwards, where he starts talking about microchips for psychopaths in order to change their brains, really hit me hard. I asked myself the question, should this whole documentary be there to ultimately introduce us to the brain chip "for everyone" because it does good things!?
I saw that too. They plan things decades in advance. Just like they already started to try to convince us, bugs are a super food after they told us red meat causes cancer.
1984
Clockwork Orange.
Oh! And lobotomies in the mid-twentieth century.
Rev 13:16
My ex is a carbon copy of his dad and I don’t know who’s more psychopathic. Both disregard people unless an important person id around, then they grovel. I have never seen a smile, tears or laughter from either. If someone doesn’t entertain them, or fawn over them there will be trouble.
There are 4 personality disorders in the cluster B family. Psychopathy (ASPD) is one and borderline is another. I have borderline and I had enough traits by age 12 for diagnosis, but because we cannot diagnose children, my doctors just did this number: 🤷🏻♀️, so now I’m 43 and just found out this is my diagnosis- meaning I’ve suffered my entire life because they wouldn’t diagnose me at 12. Not helpful.
I’m sorry you didn’t get a diagnosis until later in your life. There is treatment that can help. Cognitive therapy and DBT shows much promise. There is much relief to be found. My sister has and she’s found so much peace.
You should have a look into Marsha Linehan.
You can change you know! You need to developed the neurological hardware in your brain. The only way you can do this is meditation. Good Luck. It takes WORK that means every single day twice a day until you receive a download which reboots your brain. There has to be some type of trauma there that stopped you developing it when you were little.. in the meantime I know I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near you. You’re too dangerous, the damage you cause people is horrendous. So just keep meditating and you’ll know when your healed. Maybe it will take weeks or maybe months but if you work at it, it will work. Dr Joe Dizpensa.
The idea of stopping and asking "IS THIS A GOOD IDEA??" NO "STOP" BUTTON.
So, in a word, Politicians.
Exactly they are psychopaths that get off on ruling over you and bombing women and children
Exactly what I was thinking!
Trump for sure.
My thoughts
And meter maids, don’t forget them.
I have ASPD (anti-social personality disorder) and I don't share all the same traits as others with the same condition has, but it's been a challenge to be a good, moral person in some aspects of my life. For example: I have empathy for people, but I didn't realize how it was different than others. I don't feel hate....because I have to care enough about something to hate it. If I don't love you and I don't like you....I don't care about you and can't really feel hatred for you 🤷♂️ Indifference, is more of what it feels like. As I grew up, I forced myself to have empathy for those that I don't know by, essentially, running a conscious algorithm in my brain. That helps me determine if I should be having sympathy or empathy. I don't have to do this with my family. I love them endlessly. Strangers.... 🤷♂️ ....I have to try and I wish it were embarrassing to say that, but it's not. it's just... the truth. I have to set a standard of radical honesty for myself. That is to say: no lies, even white lies. If I don't do this, I find myself lying for no reason. I used to get in trouble for lying when I had no clue why I lied in the first place. 🤦♂️ So, I have to act like a child and tell on myself. After awhile, it's easier to just not get into situations where I would have to lie than it is to lie. That makes lying more work and effort for less reward than being honest...even if it means so sudden gratification or gratification at all. I am not violent, in general, but... yeah, I could go on and on. That ☝ was me catching myself being egocentric (when my initial goal was to make it easier for others with ASPD to talk about the disorder) in real-time. 🤦♂️ The point is: we are there among you. Some of us, however, are "pro-social psychopaths" .....meaning: *we get it and it's hard, but we are actually trying to get better or at least don't want to be this way anymore. not sure how many of us there are.... but 🙋♂️ "Here!"
I have it as well. When I was in middle school, we had to take a test at the end of Sociology class and I scored higher on it. When one of our older teacher's cried in school after her mother passed away. I privately told her that her empathy was fake she started to cry even harder. I was laughing at her. My father has it. My grandfather too. My grandfather used to kill animals for a living and belittle people all the time. My father acts like your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
The best material I’ve seen on the topic
"Organic Portal".....souless human being who attaches itself to another and depletes,.usually for material gain and/or power. It only survives by this method.
So…a parasite. Thus “ parasitic tendency”.
I like the idea of "the 'emergency brake" not working.
Here's a prediction. If there ever is a treatment for psychopathy that we, as a society can dictate, the wealthiest psychopaths (who are inflicting the most widespread harm on the rest of us,) will take care to not only avoid the diagnosis and treatment for themselves, but also for their psychopathic children. People who lack empathy tend to see that as a strength, and the rest of us as inferior and weak for caring about others. So naturally, they will not want to lose what they see as their super power. However, they will be delighted to have this treatment applied to others. Obviously, they would want to preserve their own "strength," but weaken everyone else.
The most bizare thing about Wayne is that he casually recounted his crimes with no sense of shame.
I noticed that, too, and figured it was just more of his "charming" ways to worm himself into our trust, showing us how "reformed" he'd become because of his so-called treatment.
Police need to be able to recognise the charming psychopath who is acting like the "normal one" while their crying victim is often immediately determined to be the aggressor. Look at the stupid cops who believed Brian Laundrie was the.victim despite that being the opposite of what the witness who called them had reported. That mistake cost Gabby Petito her life.
Many police are the charming psychopath.
13:11 "I'm ready to go now."😄
Psychopath? He sure looks it. Best therapy is being an actor playing out the evil in them. Suits their vanity and need for attention.Keeps them out of trouble. Encourage creativity.
I did not know that John Lenon has survived and become a psychopath.
I kind of thought on first look that he looked like Paul Kantner from Jefferson Airplane.
My sister married a guy that had a psychopathic ex-wife. She caused so much grief for my sister that it stole the better part of the start of her marriage. His ex-wife was extremely manipulative and charming and ugly inside at the same time. She manipulated men to kill a guy for her and she got away with it. She did spend time in prison though for something eventually. It is crazy how much damage psychopaths can cause.
*It’s antisocial personality disorder.* Psychopath is *not* a clinical diagnosis. It’s a term used to describe antisocial personality disorder. ASPD is *not* a mental illness, it’s a character/personality disorder. People with mental illness can learn ways to cope. Individuals with ASPD cannot learn ways to have empathy. They are in many ways, very inhuman.
Almost a different species even. More true to life "skinwalkers". They look human, they sound human, but they lack humanity.
Oh so you hate people with ASPD then? They’re not evil
No one said it was a clinical diagnosis. We use it colloquially. And yes it’s classified as a mental illness because their brains are different (malfunctioned).
@@Gilsworth these are real people who need help. For the love of good treat nd people like people
@@almondthefurret6818 How do you help someone who is incapable of caring about you? Human beings are the most dangerous animal, take away empathy and morals and what are you left with? How do you possibly help someone who has zero qualms with manipulating and beguiling you?
Love the older documentaries.
So educational , thank you. I am a mental health worker in Australia. I will definately look at that approach. Thank you
Scary that a mental health worker had anything to learn from this. You only have to be the victim of a narcissist to already know all this
this is a brilliant film. these researchers have given so much . they are also ethical ! thank you
I've seen this interview. Still haunting how aware he is to this day.
FBI lady: most of the people we deal with are psychopaths... yeah, and half of them are in uniform lol
It starts with family... It ends how the family made it. you can point fingers and make intellectual definitions. But, it starts and ends with the family dynamic
My husband Ph.D in Philosophy, taught at University. He was COMPLETELY different at home. Emotionally stunted, raging Narcissist. It took me 30 years and marrying him twice to finally abandon my fascination with the disease. I sacrificed my youth,, my kids, my health, and almost myself. Three years now since he died and i needed all of that time for deep deep rest (depression) Slowly Im recovering. Three years sober and finally experiencing deep Trust in Life. Never healthier. Never. He poisoned my relationship with all the kids, telling stories that painted me a villian and him as the perpetual victim and everyone hated/hates me...I finally let everyone not caring for me go. Excruciatingly, like sautering an infection...but the haze is lifting and Im finally healing. To all those still hypnotized by the gaze of the Serpent, YOU CAN be free. Look away, and NEVER look behind you. Remember Sodom and Gomorrah ..... that's a cautionary tale about the narcissist absolutely it is
Excellent documentary. Thank you.
He is 40 ( top) on the check list, and he can get out in 5 to 20 years !( possibly 10 more year to go) WHAT? He needs life, in my opinion! 🤷♀️
This documentary is like walking through a small town museum
Narcissists and psychopaths are ruining society, sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly. They infiltrate social movements, the narcissists charm the crowd and the psychopaths bully the opposition. It's really an awful dance.
Agree
The most successful psychopaths rarely end up behind bars, but instead are overrepresented in positions of power, ie: corporation heads and politicians. POLITICAL PONEROLOGY.
Trump
@@katewoolf6059 For sure Trump is a psycho, He leaves a swath of destruction behind him, .He would score very high on Professor Robert Hare's checklist... Also, look at all of Trump's supporters I'll bet a large percent of them are also psychopaths. Birds of a feather flock together.
You appear to have met Donald Trump 😀 Actually I 'm not qualified to make that kind of judgment. I do know that his niece has described him as having NPD. She is a psychologist. I don't know if Mary considers him a psychopath or not. He opinion doesn't count for much because clinicians are NOT supposed to diagnose or treat family members.
Trump
So Wayne is basically the real life sideshow Bob 😂
That's what I thought...oopssss
Very insightful show... Having experienced the harm these people can cause first hand (and their intelligence and how most people can’t see what’s going on) I am just a bit worried about the industrial/political/medical psychopaths that hijack the micro chip implant system and use it for their agenda on healthy people building psychopath armies...
I have a daughter who quietly leaves a trail of emotional and psychological destruction wherever she goes. I’ve seen her once in 7 years. Happy for me I’ve learned to not respond to her manipulation. She was disappointed she couldn’t get any money, property, or response from me anymore.
Absolutely amazing
According to the guidelines of speech, I'm not allowed to articulate what I really believe should be done with these people. Which is why we are unable to remove them from society. My mother being one of them. I told her one time that she is like a skunk. She "comes in, stinks up the place and leaves." She disturbs everyone psychologically and emotionally for decades and never pays the price. It's always...poor me....I'm treated so badly....I never get what I need....no body loves me. I have estranged myself from her and am much better for it.
Sounds like she is a malignant narcissist but may not be a psychopath. True psychopaths have no real emotional life.
I've noticed a lot of serial killers have eyes that are more close together than normal
I've wondered about the nature and nurture debate for years. Mainly because I had a terrific and happy childhood because I was raised by loving grandparents, while my widowed mother did her own thing, working, dating and spending time with friends. My father died when I was three, or six - depending on who asks my mother that question. I have no memory of the man, so I believe he died when I was three. When I was eleven she got married to a horrible man in a different country, whom she met while on holiday, which meant that the rest of my childhood was very unpleasant and kept me far away from all other family members. I had never really developed a connection to my mother and my stepfather made it clear that he would look only after his son, and that my mother would only look after me. He referred to me as, "Good for nothing." So he basically saw me as someone who was living in his house eating his food. I always thought that I was lucky to have had a good childhood, a good foundation for my first couple of years of life, which had made me a happy, confident little girl, because the next nineteen years or so were negative, to say the least. I survived because I read lots of books, had lots of hobbies and kept out of the way of these two, by spending a lot of time in my room. I did make a lot of decisions for my future while I was very young, such as never getting married and therefore never having children, after seeing first hand what marrying the wrong man can lead to. I never regretted this decision, it actually suits my personality. I like to be alone, since I enjoy reading, writing and working as a graphic artist. I always wondered though how I would have turned out differently if I had stayed with my grandparents instead of going away with my mother. I found out that this option had been discussed, when I came across a letter my mother had written to her then fiancé. I never thought about the father I never had because he was never spoken about, it's like he never existed. There were only two wedding photos of him, which I didn't see until I was an adult, so I never gave the fact that I didn't have a father a second thought. It wasn't until I was much older that I wondered what it would have been like if he had not died? This is also when it occurred to me that I had never met any of my father's family members, they were never part of our lives. I believe this was down to my mother not wanting to have anything to do with them. Anyway, I ended up having five dogs in my life, all of them Bouviers. All five dogs had many of the same characteristics in common, but each one had their very own personality. I treated all five dogs the same way, especially the last three, who lived in my house with me over the next thirty years. I noticed that each puppy, I got them each individually at eight weeks old, already had certain behaviors. For example Levi at eight weeks did not like to have his collar removed at night and put back on in the morning. He liked it to just stay on or stay off. He is seven years old now but still hates to have his collar touched. Thinking back I realized that whatever my dogs liked or disliked when they were puppies stayed with them throughout their adult years. You can train a dog to sit, lie down, etc., but some things will stick with them for life. I had my dogs for about ten and a half years each, until they died. I spent a lot of time with them because I worked from home, so I was very close to each dog and learned a lot about them. I started to wonder if the first eight weeks of their lives with the breeders I got them from, had already shaped their likes and dislikes and possibly their personalities. Noah for example was raised by a breeder who kept the puppies separated from their mothers, except for feeding times, in a fenced in enclosure. When I got him home it was obvious that he had never been in a house before because he was scared of everything, furniture, stairs, the TV, etc. He was even scared to go outside for a walk for the first couple of weeks. I also had to earn his trust. Levi came from a different breeder, where he was with his mother and siblings in a house and he wasn't scared of anything. He was lively, social, friendly, loving and cuddly when we went to pick him up and he is still that way to this day. Elsa was dropped off at my house on a rainy Saturday morning by Noah's breeder, but the puppies were from a breeder who had just separated from his wife and he was no longer able to take care of them. She was in a cage in the back of a truck with two of her brothers, also in cages on either side of her. She looked depressed after a very long trip the night before. I took her inside. Noah was still alive at the time and when she saw him she perked up. I fed her and the three of us got in my bed to rest. All three of us fell asleep and when we woke up we went for a walk around the block. During the walk we ran into a fellow dog owner who bent over to pet Elsa who backed away because she was terrified of him. Over the next ten and a half years Elsa backed away from any man who went to touch her. She was the best dog ever though with me, she loved cats and kittens and was an incredible watchdog. I believe that like dogs, humans to a certain extent, are what happens to us during our childhoods, it shapes us in many ways, but that just like dogs we already have our personality traits baked in. So someone who had loving parents will still end up becoming a murderer. I suppose you can learn to change some of the traits your childhood instilled in you, you might be lucky to marry someone who makes you a better person, but you could also end up with someone who has had a terrible upbringing as well and together you will be that couple that nobody wants to have around. My cousin and I often joke about the dysfunctional family we have come from, she being the daughter of my mother's brother, who according to my cousin was no picnic as a father. So the same grandparents who loved and doted on me, raised a son and daughter who both went on to be terrible parents. Both of their children moved as far away from them as possible as soon as they could, in my Uncle's case when he was 19. I'll never forget talking to my mother over lunch one day at my house, when she told me that she had always hated her parents. I was shocked. It turns out that my stepfather had grown up hating his mother, he mentioned this fact quite often. She died when she was quite young, on the other hand he adored his father. It's a wonder that any of us function at all on any level.
"As you like it", "All the worlds a stage" Shakespeare, and Jung would say he's putting on his "persona". "The aspect of someones character that is presented to and perceived by others." First guy says they can see the change. NOO they see what you can so expertly portray! HA! lets see, charming, manipulative, conning, etc, etc.
Why are psychopaths allowed to be glorified on you tube...and when someone normal expresses their opinion they are censored on you tube?
define normal?
They are doing alot of shadow banning! I see mire and more comments saying the same and it’s happening to me as well. I will be surprised if this comment shows up actually!
I think deep-rooted self-hatred is probably contributable to the development of psychopathic traits. Perhaps that is why current treatment standards don't work, but worsen.
Change change change. Chain of fools Chain chain chain of fools!!
They really don't hate them selves. They don't feel emotions like other people. They don't feel shame nor remorse nor fear. It's hard to imagine when you're not a psychopath, but it's dangerous to try to "humanize" them and label them with emotions they don't have. A sociopath on the other hand can develop after severe trauma, but they are not really hating them selves either, and are flat in their emotions. The current treatment for psychopaths only help them develop greater skills to manipulate others.
No. TF are you saying. It's a brain underdevelopment in area associated with empathy.
Pyschopaths cannot hate themselves they are incapable hating. They can feel contempt to others but not hate themselves.
You’re thinking of narcissism.
Constantly trying to understand how and why human being are capable of such evil?
Excellent information. Current research is showing that the use of psychedelic assisted therapies has an effect on the amygdala in addition to neural plasticity. Research in that area is also extremely minimal/new. I’ve been thinking about combining a psychedelic medication, such as psilocybin with hypnotherapy, increasing the neural plasticity in a controlled environment. I guess I should get started researching to see if anybody else has tried this method. If not, and somebody’s interested, I would love to partner up or join a team.
Why do people say their ex are pyschopaths 😂
No kidding sheeesh. It’s downright narcissistic.
There is no doubt in my mind that most people with psychopathy gravitate toward powerful positions in society and are validated for the crimes they commit
You cannot reform someone that is like this no. I lived with one. I've known many. And I'm sorry but anybody who has taken it to the level of going after children, And killing just to kill is not reformable
I got into psychology because I could see that the current treatment paradigm based on cognitive behavioral therapy is ineffective. Behavior is based on how one thinks and if you just teach people to behave in a way that nets them benefits without changing what they are thinking then all you are doing is providing an extra tool for subterfuge. I think there is a lot of correlation between addictive thinking and psychopathy. Just like psychopaths very few addicts are helped,but some are. Honestly, I just think the behaviorists have had their day and a new empirical analysis needs to be developed.
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson: Wikipedia This is a good counterpoint to Dr. Hare's work. In short, the subject is still very controversial, and two things that stand out by looking it over are that there is a significant medical industry that governments rely on that has sprung up around these diagnoses and an approach to it by the global media industry that requires some caution as sociopathic itself. Do these people exist? is not the point I’d suggest, but rather how best to deal with them. Remember, we once thought burning people, but mostly women, at the stake was a way of helping them by cleansing their souls in order for them to enter heaven? Social media provides a powerful contemporary intersection of many of those same sorts of forces. Watching this through, I'm a little concerned about the lack of objectivity from the prison industry, which appears to have had a significant input into this. That context is important if we understand that there is a tendency to universalise and normalise their specific aggregated points of view.
Yes! I know I am an ADDICT! To my art. Watercolor to be precise. I have long Covid issues and thought I would not make it. Then I rediscovered watercolor. And have been at it every single day. In the process even weaned off BP meds the doctor had put me on...and its such a BLESSING!
I know somebody that is a therapist in a prison. After years of talking with prisoners trying to help them they say the ones with the sexual deviance you cannot reform or help. There is no correcting that.
I'm dying to know what's with Wayne now, couldn't find anything about him, i guess it will remain mystery forever(
Who's Wayne?
@@jturtle5318The curly haired weirdo in the video.
Congress is filled with these subhumans. Both parties.
Totally believe they are born that way, several in my family and extended family. Known from an early age, Only thing to do is protect yourself.
What disturbed me the most about this crime. Is the sheriffs indifference to Naomis brother taking fast action about his missing sister. Rip Naomi
children abusers should never get a chance to get out. ever. end of story
Not just children
Dude looks like Howard Stern, the Psychopathic Version Anyway.