A psychopath????

Question

Ok people- I need some ideas!

For my abnormal psych paper, I'm supposed to select an individual from a novel or a film or real-life (historic, famous figure) that exemplifies the features of a psychopath who was NOT a serial killer...

Can you guys think of any fictional or real-life famous characters that portray the following features?


•Superficial charm and average intelligence.
•Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
•Unreliability.
•Untruthfulness and insincerity.
•Lack of remorse or shame.
•Antisocial behavior without reason..
•Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
•Egocentricity (superiority) and incapacity to love.
•Low frustration rate (exceptionally calm in stressful situations)
•Specific loss of insight. (how others view them)
•Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
•Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
•Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.

So far I can only think of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series...

Answer 1

Butch Coolidge from the movie Pulp Fiction is a boxer with some good looks and no great intelligence but who is free of delusions. He is unreliable in that he cheats mobster Marsellus Wallace, Butch promises to throw a boxing match for Marsellus. Butch instead goes so far as to kill his opponent. Butch plans to skip town with his pay for throwing the match. When he is confronted by Marsellus' goon Vincent Vega, Butch blows him away with a machine gun (extremely antisocial!) It is Butch's poor judgement that he crossed these mobsters in the first place and poor judgement that he has forgotten his wristwatch and had to go back for it, risking life and limb. When Captain Koons gave Butch the watch, when Butch was a small boy, Captain Koons had a lesson to teach Butch, but Butch didn't learn a whit from the Captain's tale of heroism. Butch could be described as egocentric in his way of fighting in the ring to make his name. He does remain exceptionally calm when he has been kidnaped by Zed and is facing a fate worse than death. It doesn’t matter to Butch what people might think of Butch when he kills a man in the boxing ring. Butch's fantastic behavior also includes hitting Marsellus with a car, slicing one of his captors with a samurai sword, and stealing a chopper belonging to Zed. Last but not least, Butch's sex life with his girlfriend meets the descriptor of the sociopath: Butch teases her for having a pot belly, and becomes unreasonably angry with her when he learns that she has neglected to bring along his prized watch.

Answer 2

A psychopath is overly-rational, and lacks concern. THEY DO sense!!! So specific, a psychopath CAN LOVE others, and can love yet another psychopath, with the aid of fact they do no longer seem to be Megalomaniacs(so as that they do no longer prefer, or prefer 'absolute power'), they look after, and administration their lives in an extremely rational way, that's why they are able to be brutally complicated, or cruel, however the element is, they do stick to policies, so which you will reason with a psychopath.

Answer 3

S**T! You're scaring me. I fit 3 of those characteristics, but not 100% of the time. I'm bipolar and a recovering addict. Is that a good alibi?

I agree, Severus Snape fits the category, but I believe he has killed someone before. He used to be a Death Eater!

Answer 4

a sociopath is defined as someone who displays at least three of seven distinguishing characteristics, such as deceitfulness, impulsivity and a lack of remorse. Such people often have a superficial charm, which they exercise ruthlessly in order to get what they want. Stout argues that the development of sociopathy is due half to genetics and half to nongenetic influences that have not been clearly identified.

this description fits George to an "S." Although Stout's book -- unlike "Bush on the Couch" by Justin Frank -- is not about Bush per se, it does deal with Bush's most likely untreated psychiatric diagnosis: sociopathology.

Most crucially, Bush exhibits the linchpin of sociopathology: guiltlessnes, lack of remorse, absence of conscience.

It's ironic that people often can't believe that charming, flattering and amiable people can be sociopaths, when it is in the very nature of the pathology to win people over, while not caring a whit about them in reality.

If anything, people without conscience tend to believe that their way of being in the world is superior to ours." She also notes, "Socipaths are infamous for their refusal to acknowledge responsibility for the decisions they make, or for the outcomes of their decisions. In fact, a refusal to see the results of one's bad behavior as having anything to do with oneself -- 'consistent irresponsibility' in the language of the American Psychiatric Association -- is the cornerstone of the antisocial personality diagnosis.

It is difficult to detect sociopaths in our midst because their lack of conscience is hidden behind a veneer of superficial affability. That is the George W. Bush who has been inflicted upon America for the last six years. He is not the sociopath next door, which this books help you to detect if you are living next to one; he is the untreated sociopath with his hands on our ship of state.

Answer 5

well hitler sounds like a good candidate, cept he killed many a person. Though he wasn't a serial killer technically.

Hang on!! do the guy from clockwork orange!! hes perfect. I didn't read that it had to be from a book or film.

Answer 6

What about Vic Vega (aka Mr. Blonde) from Reservoir Dogs?
He did kill people, but he was not a serial killer.

Answer 7

How about Napoléon Bonaparte

Answer 8

Norman Bates from the movie "Psycho"