- Psychopathy is a personality disorder, not a mental illness.
- There is no “cure” for psychopaths, and they will never be able to change.
- If they are in prison, psychopaths can be managed with reward-based treatment.
- But this is simply a means of control, rather than a cure.
Like many personality traits, psychopathy is a spectrum. About 1-2% of men and 0.3-0.7% of women in the general population are estimated to be true psychopaths, but for the rest of us, we fall on the scale somewhere lower down.
People who experience psychopathic traits, such as ruthlessness, charisma, impulsivity, and persuasiveness, tend to get through life just fine. Even full-blown psychopaths can be very successful — they just won’t ever be the same as everyone else.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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