CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychopathy, Therapeutic Community
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Follow-up study (follow them back out onto the street after the asylum) The psychopath learns that their needs won"t be met: violent (violence to prove their point and get what they want, artistic (manipulation, good looking etc. ) Brittle psychopaths: psychopathic behaviour but when growing up, they get cold and have a heartless personality without affection in prison or punished) Spend around 3 months to get treated in the mental hospital. Part of your therapy to question what you have done. Mask of sanity: mask that psychopaths develop to shield them against the world. Ex: dead psychopath in the group (mask of sanity) Reconstituting them to go back into society from therapy and the hospital. Being ethical in your research with anonymity, protection of privacy. Judicial system wasn"t just, it depended on how the judge was feeling that day (cid:523)someone could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread if they felt like it.
