from constituent descriptors such as “friendly,” “empathic,” and “welcoming.”
2 If you want to find out who
you
are from your personality, you may like to try an abbreviated version of the Big Five personality test, which you can find at www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com .
3 In actual fact, the NEO formed part of a larger, 592-item questionnaire that assessed a wide range of variables including personality, intelligence, and behavior. However, statistical techniques make it possible to extrapolate a psychopathic personality profile from an individual’s overall performance on the NEO.
4 The table appears in www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com .
5 The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(
DSM
), published by the American Psychiatric Association, provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States, and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians and researchers alike—as well as by pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, and by psychiatric drug regulation agencies. The manual was first published in 1952. The latest version, DSM-IV-TR, was published in 2000. DSM-V is due to be published in May 2013.
6 For the complete list of disorders see www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com .
7 The PCL-R is issued in clinical settings, by qualified personnel, and is scored on the basis of an extensive file review and a semi-structured interview. Do
not
try to use it on your bank manager.
8 Conduct disorder (CD), according to
DSM
, is characterized by “a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated … manifested by the presence of three (or more) of the following criteria in the past 12 months, with at least one criterion present in the past 6 months: aggression to people and animals … destruction of property … deceitfulness or theft … serious violation of rules.” In addition, CD should result in “clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.” Two forms of CD are specified: childhood-onset (in which at least one criterion of the disorder must be in evidence prior to the age of ten); and adolescent-onset (in which no criteria should have occurred prior to the age of ten).
9 “Top-notch police detective”; “dean from a major university”; “successful retail business”; “made large sum of money and was mayor for three years”; “managerial position in a government organization”; “endowed professor with numerous federal grants”—these are just some of the success indicators that surfaced in the study.
THREE
CARPE NOCTEM
I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
— LADY MACBETH (on hearing that her husband plans to proceed no further with the murder of King Duncan)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
On March 13, 1841, the
William Brown
set sail from Liverpool, bound for Philadelphia. Five weeks into the voyage, on the night of April 19, the vessel struck an iceberg 250 miles off the coast of Newfoundland and began to sink rapidly. Over thirty passengers and crew, still dressed in their nightclothes, commandeered a longboat built to hold just seven. With a storm looming and icy Atlantic rain already beginning to fall, it soon became apparent, to First Mate Francis Rhodes, that the longboat would have to be lightened were anyone to survive. The same thought had occurred to the captain, George L. Harris, who had taken to an accompanying jolly boat along with a handful of others. But he prayed for deliverance from another, more palatable source.
“I know what you’ll have to do,” he confided to Rhodes. “Don’t speak of that now. Let it be a last resort.” The following
2 If you want to find out who
you
are from your personality, you may like to try an abbreviated version of the Big Five personality test, which you can find at www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com .
3 In actual fact, the NEO formed part of a larger, 592-item questionnaire that assessed a wide range of variables including personality, intelligence, and behavior. However, statistical techniques make it possible to extrapolate a psychopathic personality profile from an individual’s overall performance on the NEO.
4 The table appears in www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com .
5 The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(
DSM
), published by the American Psychiatric Association, provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States, and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians and researchers alike—as well as by pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, and by psychiatric drug regulation agencies. The manual was first published in 1952. The latest version, DSM-IV-TR, was published in 2000. DSM-V is due to be published in May 2013.
6 For the complete list of disorders see www.wisdomofpsychopaths.com .
7 The PCL-R is issued in clinical settings, by qualified personnel, and is scored on the basis of an extensive file review and a semi-structured interview. Do
not
try to use it on your bank manager.
8 Conduct disorder (CD), according to
DSM
, is characterized by “a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated … manifested by the presence of three (or more) of the following criteria in the past 12 months, with at least one criterion present in the past 6 months: aggression to people and animals … destruction of property … deceitfulness or theft … serious violation of rules.” In addition, CD should result in “clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.” Two forms of CD are specified: childhood-onset (in which at least one criterion of the disorder must be in evidence prior to the age of ten); and adolescent-onset (in which no criteria should have occurred prior to the age of ten).
9 “Top-notch police detective”; “dean from a major university”; “successful retail business”; “made large sum of money and was mayor for three years”; “managerial position in a government organization”; “endowed professor with numerous federal grants”—these are just some of the success indicators that surfaced in the study.
THREE
CARPE NOCTEM
I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
— LADY MACBETH (on hearing that her husband plans to proceed no further with the murder of King Duncan)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
On March 13, 1841, the
William Brown
set sail from Liverpool, bound for Philadelphia. Five weeks into the voyage, on the night of April 19, the vessel struck an iceberg 250 miles off the coast of Newfoundland and began to sink rapidly. Over thirty passengers and crew, still dressed in their nightclothes, commandeered a longboat built to hold just seven. With a storm looming and icy Atlantic rain already beginning to fall, it soon became apparent, to First Mate Francis Rhodes, that the longboat would have to be lightened were anyone to survive. The same thought had occurred to the captain, George L. Harris, who had taken to an accompanying jolly boat along with a handful of others. But he prayed for deliverance from another, more palatable source.
“I know what you’ll have to do,” he confided to Rhodes. “Don’t speak of that now. Let it be a last resort.” The following
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