NOT ALL PSYCHOPATHS ARE PREDATORS ;) Consider the following scene: You’re out for dinner with your family when your father suddenly stands, raps his spoon against a glass and calls the restaurant patrons – all strangers – to attention. “Many thanks,” he says, “for coming tonight, especially to those who have come from out of town. I can’t tell you how much it means that you could join us. We’d like to continue the celebration after dessert, with a reception down the street at the King’s Arms. It would be lovely to see you all there.” The diners all applaud with enthusiasm. Leaving soon after, you ask, “Dad, we aren’t really going to the King’s Arms, are we?” “No, son,” he says, “but they are. My friend Malcolm has just taken over as landlord and he’ll make a few quid tonight.” That, says British research psychologist Kevin Dutton, who watched his own father once perform that – and many similar – acts of brazen tomfoolery, is classic evidence of psychopathy. “My father was absolutely a nailed-down psychopath,” he said in an interview. “Never violent, but ruthless, fearless, shameless, charming. He could have sold shaving cream to the Taliban.”
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:55:02 +0000
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