Successful Psychopath

Common characteristics that all the resources agreed in defining a psychopath is that these individuals are ones who have no emotions (including empathy or remorse), ones who engage in impulsive and antisocial acts, there is an absence of delusions and anxiety, maintains no real relationships, irresponsible (Fails to follow any life plan), level of intelligence depends on the individual, etc. The collection of moments is a show series called Dexter, the main character is serial killer who targets criminals; Dexter witnessed the murder of his mother at age three and was adopted by Harry, a police officer. Recognizing his psychopathic traits as a child, his adoptative father taught Dexter to “channel his passion for killing to murder other killers.

This is another moment that further confirms Dexter’s profiling in being a psychopath since once again of his inability to or lack of emotions. This also supports Burkley’s idea of the successful psychopath in the article “Is Dexter a Successful Psychopath”; the article defines a “successful psychopath [as one] who fits the criteria of a psychopath, but is largely successful in their exploitations and so is able to avoid getting caught” (Burkley, 2010). To add on, Dr. Judy Ustina states that psychopaths have the ability to read and respond accordingly to social situations (“How accurately did author Jeff Lindsay portray a psychopath?”, 2007). Particularly, even though Dexter is unable to cry, he still tries to “fit in” or conform to social norms; in this case, he feels that since his partner is crying, the ultimate norm is for him to cry too, especially since he needs to be accepted to maintain this persona as husband and a father figure to her children to hide his true self, his reality. The text also continues to affirm evidence that psychopaths have the ability to manipulate the criminal justice system (“Psychopaths and Serial Killers, 171), surely Dexter using everything he has

It is true not all parents parents are not ‘perfect’ in parenting, but any individual would know how to rephrase (and not sound blunt) or know the ‘right’ things to say without sounding rude or it being offense. Moreover, this act entails the exact characteristics of a psychopath, “individuals who engage in impulsive and antisocial acts…feel no shame for behavior that often has a negative impact on others…” (“Psychopaths and Serial Killers, 165). He acts on his thoughts with no forethought—he is impulsive (i.e. “acting or done without forethought” [oxford dictionaries]) which makes him seem highly opinionated in society. This psychopathic behaviour is also supported in a recent triarchic model of psychopathy outlined by Patrick, Fowles, and Kreueger (2009), which contains three major components: boldness, meanness and disinhibition (167). Dishibition is “[the] lack of restraint manifested in disregard for social conventions”, also known as his antisocial behaviour commonly seen in psychopaths. This further supports Dr. Judy Ustina claim that psychopaths can read social situations but really do not feel the emotion which is reflected in his/her behaviour; distinctly reflected in this act, this scene involves no one else which disables him and does not allow him to read or mimick their