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are not necessarily wrong with your observations, it seems like you over generalized and picked one of the types (albeit the more common one). Psychopathy is still not completely understood, and there are far too many contradictions for everyone to agree with just one. You might be better off just focusing on the characters and how they are portrayed as well as some of the characteristics that they have that are similar to real life psychopathy as well as the ones that aren't found in most cases. The majority of the people you mentioned, including the ones that you dismissed, actually do have striking similarities to real life examples.
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This is why include Lennie Small: he is frequently described as lacking a conscience, which is the definition of a psychopath. I have given the opposing views as well, as with the others. Even psychiatrists admit that psychopaths need not be wholly evil (unlike abortionists, many psychopathic serial
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There are also two types of psychopaths, the disorganized ones (most of the ones you said are the realistic ones) and the organized ones (charming, calculating, deceptive - look up Dennis Rader who was the president of a Church, a father, a Cub Scout leader, and a sadistic serial killer). While you
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thing. So in this list there are a whole bunch of characters who are ... how to put it .... perhaps "not completely human". Given that, how can we make any kind of meaningful statement as to whether their behaviours are "normal" or not? As examples I give you:
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Randall Flagg is an incarnation of the devil, and it is quite clear in King's books that RF is able to manifest himself as anything he chooses. Thus it would be wildly wrong to try to diagnose any kind of human trait within him, or any kind of
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The problem is, that once we start, where do we stop? Humans who display the behaviours that domestic cats sometimes do would certainly be diagnosed as ill. Does that make every cat a psychopath? Of course not. But what about the eponymous
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page and others admit freely that the definitions of the concept are somewhat vague and arbitrary, they all agree that it is a sickness and an example of an abnormal (yes, it is a weasel word) behaviour; and above all, it is a
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There is often made a distinction in the text between sociopath and psychopath, AFAIK there is no semantic difference in the terms (i.e. they carry no difference in meaning and are completely interchangeable).
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Not being a player of video games I can't speak with any authority on their characters, but there is talk of zombies in that section, so again, characters that are not totally human.
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a good example is wyatt mathewson from the show prison break, he shows little emotion, is smart and calulcating, and shows no fear
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Dr Who's The Master is a Time Lord and not a human being at all. For one thing, he has two hearts.
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The previous incarnations of this article were, much to my annoyance, deleted see
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For one thing, "This article does not cite any references or sources." –
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The character Nimue in Merlin is a magician, with powers beyond human.
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killers have unsanctimoniously accepted that they deserve to die).
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I don't even see the problem. Explain your problems with the page.
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is a copy of the WP article, a/c to its own statement at the bottom
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He shows nearly all of the traits for psychopathy according to the
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Tony Soprano should be added to list of TV psychopaths
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Additional candidate in both Literature and movies?
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