Psychology: Psychotherapy Disorder And How It Affects The Victims (Research Paper Sample)

Psychology and Psychotherapy
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Introduction
According to Verschuere et al (2018), a psychopath is a form of a disorder that is associated with callousness, arrogance, antisocial behaviors and self-absorption. This is to say psychopaths are coldhearted and uncaring. In addition, Patrick (2018), elucidated that when psychopathy manifests in an individual it makes them lack the ability to establish a personal relationship with people since they cannot love. Further, psychopaths are egocentric and do not learn from others (Patrick, 2018). Though psychopathy may seem like disconnect from the real world, it is seemingly rational with the reality.
Healthyplace.com argues that psychopathy is caused by a combination of factors: environmental, interpersonal and genetics. Evidence of genetic influence has been seen in cases where children of psychopaths have a higher likelihood of being psychopaths too. In addition, a psychologist has found that harsh early life experience may increase the possibility of becoming a psychopath (Healthyplace.com). For instance, punishing and harassing the child can cause psychopathy.
Scientific studies use Hare's 20-items psychopathy checklist to identify the symptoms of psychopathy. The degree of these traits is then measured on a scale of 0-3 to determine the severity of a trait (Healthyplace.com). Some of the symptoms that the checklist check for is: lying pathologically, impulsiveness, irresponsibility, lack of guilt, shallow emotions, behavioral problems, parasitic lifestyle and so forth (Healthyplace.com).
According to psychologytoday.com psychopaths are unable to form personal relationships since they cannot love. This means they do not bond with others. Consequently, since psychopaths are dissocial they have a very low tolerance to frustrations (Psychologytoday.com). Consequently, they are highly aggressive and to some extent violent. This means psychopaths can easily engage in assaults an