4-2 Final Project Milestone Three: Draft of Profile
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4-2 Final Project Milestone Three: Draft of Profile
The psychopath as a personality disorder entails an individual being amoral and manifesting antisocial behavior and showing an inability to love or have a meaningful personal relationship.
Physical features
A psychopath is manifested through an individual’s physical features and behaviors concerning their surroundings and circumstances (Marcus, Fulton, and Edens, 2013). Psychopath physical features are manifested through having great boldness, lack of empathy, high self-esteem, being violent, impulsivity coupled with the inability to control behavior, sexual offending characteristics, and lack of inhibitions.
Triggers
The psychopath triggers determine the factors that initiate the psychopath personality disorder. The triggers define the source or cause of personality disorder (Patric, Venables, and Drislane, 2013). In this case, the genetic formation of an individual is composed of moderate genetics and non-genetic influences. On the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI), one has an impulsive antisocial personality and fearless dominance.
The environment triggers psychopathy among some people. Persons that being subjected in an environment characterized by being physically neglected, having a convicted parent, low involvement in a child’s upbringing, disrupted family, and families experiencing low income facilitate the personality disorder among some people (Patric, Venables, and Drislane, 2013).
Brain injury triggers arising from head injuries amount to psychopaths and violence. Traumatic brain injuries that include damage in the orbitofrontal cortex or prefrontal cortex incline one to engage in unacceptable social and moral decisions (Patric, Venables and Drislane, 2013). Additionally, brain damage results in moral and emotional impairments and reduced automatic response stimuli.
Personality traits
The personality traits of a psychopath are determined and explained by their behaviors, feelings, and thoughts in the course of interaction and relations with other parties (Marcus, Fulton, and Edens, 2013). In this regard, the personality traits of a psychopath are defined by sensation seeking, super-tasting, lack of empathy, guilt, remorse or conscience, reduced feelings of emotions and feelings, inability to control undesirable behaviors, superficial charm and glibness, irresponsibility, and general antisocial behaviors.
Historical information
The historical information in the psychopath profiles defines the past circumstances that have contributed to the present personality disorder. In this regard, family history in terms of genealogy determines the psychopath personality disorder (Venables, Hall and Patric, 2014). The genealogy traces lineages form oral interviews, genetic analysis, historical records, kinship, and pedigrees to trace the source of personality disorder. Consequently, the poor background can be the origin of personality disorder as it defines the environmental background causing the personality problems. Poverty can be explained from political, social, and economic terms, and they leave on vulnerable, leading to the development of personality disorder. Additionally, having a historical background of parental neglect inclines one to have a personality disorder. Parental neglect means that one was not socialized effectively and cared for normal growth and development of the brain leading to personality disorders.
Risk of releasing the personality disorder profile to public
There are different risks associated with the release of psychopathy personality disorder to the public. In this regard, releasing the public profile makes the victim vulnerable to the public as they will be deserted and neglects, thus making them lead a miserable life (Skeem et al., 2011). The victims need to be protected by withholding the profile. Additionally, exposing the personality disorder profile of a victim to the public amounts breach confidentiality. In this case, victim privacy is invaded, thus making them vulnerable and affecting their social life. Therefore, the psychopathy personality disorder profile should be held and protected in the interest of the victim’s social life.
The personality disorder profile information that should be released should be the general information that is not personally identifiable to ensure that the victims are not victimized. The general information of the psychopathy should be released to the public as a matter of public awareness to ensure that such cases can be handled effectively and reduce the stigma associated with personality disorders.
References
Marcus, D. K., Fulton, J. J., & Edens, J. F. (2013). The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: Evidence from the Psychopathic Personality Inventory. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 4(1), 67.
Patrick, C. J., Venables, N. C., & Drislane, L. E. (2013). The role of fearless dominance in differentiating psychopathy from antisocial personality disorder: Comment on Marcus, Fulton, and Edens.
Skeem, J. L., Polaschek, D. L., Patrick, C. J., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2011). Psychopathic personality: Bridging the gap between scientific evidence and public policy. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 12(3), 95-162.
Venables, N. C., Hall, J. R., & Patrick, C. J. (2014). Differentiating psychopathy from antisocial personality disorder: A triarchic model perspective. Psychological medicine, 44(5), 1005.
