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Psyychopathy And Forensic Mental Health

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Are psychopaths fundamentally different from others and lacking basic attributes such as empathy and guilt essential for a normal personality or is psychopathy on a continuum with normal personality functioning within the general population? Demonstrate whether psychopathy represents the extreme of a continuous characteristic distributed across the general population.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder comprising an affective formation, interpersonal and behavioural characteristics including callousness, fearlessness, deceitfulness, grandiosity, impulsiveness, excitement seeking and aggression, among others (Hare & Neumann, 2008). Often it coexists with antisocial behaviour and personality traits, even with substance use, problems such as aggression and impulsivity. However, longstanding debates continue regarding the purview and extend of the concept. …show more content…

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