Creating a Psychopath

A. Imagine an infant boy, left alone for hours at a time hungry and covered in his own feces,
growing into a scared two-year old cowering under the bed from the rage of his drunken
father.

B. This is a typical glance into the childhood of a person suffering from psychopathy, neglected
and abused leading to an underdeveloped frontal lobe. The frontal lobe is the part of the
brain responsible for impulse control, judgement, and social and sexual behavior. Chad
Brinkley, a clinical psychologist at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, says psychopathy is
characterized by a variety of antisocial behaviors and exploitative interpersonal
relationships (Brinkley).

C. Psychopathy is the result of neglect, physical, and sexual abuse in the first three years of life.

A. Neglect

1.

Early neglect may result in the lack of empathy because the part of ones brain that
understands connectedness to others fails to develop. (Scannapieco 67)

2. Internal working model from care giver template for other relationships

3. Caregivers response to dependence

4. Brain develops according to environment

5. Underdevelopment of frontal lobe

B. Physical Abuse

1. Brain adapts to trauma

2. Overdevelopment in areas of brain involved in anxiety and fear from prolonged stress

3. Conditioned to expect desired response from violence

4. Impulsivity aggressive behavior

5. Lack of empathy

6. Avoidant behaviors
 C. Sexual Abuse

1. Internalize blame

2. View other as unsafe

3. Self-loathing

4. Grow up in constant state of fear

Conclusion

A. In conclusion neglect, physical, and sexual abuse are three main causes of psychopathy.

B. Monster raise more monsters because the human brain is adaptive and for survival it will
grow in a cold calculated way when trapped in a nightmare environment.

C. maltreated children are more likely to have attachment problems than other children, and
those can range from mild interpersonal difficulties to the loss of capacity to form any
meaningful relationship

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