PSYC 4P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hervey M. Cleckley, Superficial Charm, Psychopathy
5 Apr 2017
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Pcl measures: theory/research, relation to violence, criminality/anti-sociality debate, measuring psychopathy in subclinical populations, the psychopath next door . Why study psychopathy: contributes to understanding of antisocial, aggressive, and violent behaviour: Early descriptions of psychopathy: benjamin karpman (1886 1962) Primary/secondary psychopathy subtypes: hervey cleckley (1903 1984) Karpman: psychopathy subtypes: differential motivations/causes, but similar presentation , both typologies: look the same but motivations are different. Egocentric, unreliable, irresponsible, lacking guilt, shame and empathy: primary psychopathy (idiopathic): do not have a conscious, therefore they cannot feel. Precise in approach to anti-social behaviour: secondary (symptomatic): have a disturbed conscious, that can be treated by targeting underlying neurosis or causes of disfunction. Cleckley"s psychopath views psychopathy as one unitary concept (but not just people who are criminal psychopaths: superficial charm and good intelligence. Independent but related factors (emtotional/interpersonal & deviance) Further divided into a four factor model. Grandiosity, pathological lying, manipulative tendencies, chronic and superficial charm.
