PSYC 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gilles De Rais, Katherine Taylor, Cluster B Personality Disorders
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Tremblay & nagin: this is not learned aggression but a naturally occuring display and that the child learns to inhibit aggression as they get older. We learn to be aggressive: we learn to inihibit a natural kind of aggression. in children (tantrums). it peaks between 12-18 months of age: age where we learn to develop a sense of self. Cluster b: causes the most types of behaviour that leads to legal situations without agrression, decieit, impulsive), paranoid pd. Antisocial pd, borderline pd, histrionic, narcissistic (like aspd but. Sadism: one of the cluster b, essential feature of serial killers. Up til the 14thc, sadism was normative. and destroying nations and individuals. Christian old testament: 600 passages that explicitly describe attacking. No evidence, but shows the attitudes/values of the times. 10 commandments: no commandments against rape, slavery, genocide. Step 1: callous cruelty: indifference to human sufferings (in war situations: otherise the enemy as not like us," human")
