Considering the long history of viewing psychopathy as a disorder only is the FIRST basis that the following chapters present psychopathy in a new light. The New Paradigm, based upon my Brainmarks Paradigm (2009)interprets psychopathy to be both a...
normal neuroadpative and congenital brain condition, and a
severe "toxic" personality disorder .
In this spectrum view, order (normalcy) may, by gradation (degrees), become disorder expressed as Psychopathic Personality Disorder observed as a mix of obsession, violence, and sexuality producing violent sexual predators.
I can't emphasize enough how the brain is programmmed by principles of evolutionary development (Evo-Devo)to thrive and survive by manifestations of what we know to be "psychopathic traits". A brain equipped with clusters of psychopathy--self-absorbed narcissism, "bullet-proof" entitlement, & deception--will find a way to survive life's considerable onslought of slings and arrows.
The time has come in our 21st Century understanding of psychopathy to revise the current Cluster B Personality Disorders presented in the Diagnotic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) as I have indicated in the following chapters.
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