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ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
 Posted: 15-07-2009 14:18 Post subject: Analysis Of Psychopath Pathology & Behaviour |
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No doubt they provide "good" character skerchs.
| Quote: | Analysis Of The Personality Of Psychopaths By Means Of Their Drawings
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090714154945.htm
ScienceDaily (July 15, 2009) — The ‘Analysis of the structure of language and dynamic of personality' research group of the University of Granada has developed a method to analyse the personality of people with psychopathologic disorders by means of their drawings. It consists of a series of Graphic Projective Tests (TPG) where patients draw what a psychologist says. Each element of the picture has a meaning and it will give information about conscious and unconscious aspects of the analysed person.
With Dr. José María Cid leading the project, psychologists have developed a methodology that systematically categorizes all elements that appear in the drawing. This system makes the evaluation and interpretation phase easier when making the personality profile of subject by means a technical card. Also, it is possible to foresee a diagnosis whose therapeutical action guidelines will be indicated for that person specifically. In this way, recently, it was presented a novel study on a test of lecto-writing and verbal understanding and the drawing of a tree in 7-14 children years, in which one shows the parallelism of the infantile evolutionary development and the disgraphic problems of the children through their writing and the graphical expression.
This study is the first arranged system of variables supported by a psychological theory easy to evaluate and interpret. That is why it can be used by professionals as well as all those who whish to know a little bit more about themselves. Recently, Dr. Cid has communicated a quantitative and qualitative investigation of the "Test of Pair", about the importance of the surroundings, concretly in the city of Granada Environment.
Researchers have described this methodology in a book titled "Personalidad y conflictos en el dibujo" (personality and conflicts on drawings), which includes the person test, the person under the rain test and the couple test. This series of graphic projective techniques can be added to the traditional tree test. There is a similitude between the morphology of the drawings and the psychological system of the person in all these tests.
The tests include psychopathological indicators related to the making of the drawing, as well as features that allude to emotional, inhibition or aggressiveness-related disorders. Also they provide parameters for measuring social maladjustment, criminal trend, and hysteric and obsessive neurosis. In addition to this, elements of depression, psychotic alterations and melancholy features are evaluated.
On top of applying graphic projective techniques to legal psychology, pedagogy and psychopedagogy, researchers have used this methodology in forensic works in Medicine, as well as in ill-treated women, children violence and in the ‘Aula de Mayores' (evening classes) of the University of Granada. In this last case, the evidence shown that students were opened to changes and they faced their past, present and future in a progressive manner. Also, tests have been applied in psychological care units of children centres, with autistic children.
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Adapted from materials provided by Andalucía Innova. |
Edit to amend title.
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| romieh Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Total posts: 14 |
| Posted: 15-07-2009 23:41 Post subject: |
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Very interesting
Thanks for the post
p.s. i read your end quote as 'guard with jealous attention the public library' etc  ....a whole new meaning, one i quite like... |
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| BeatrixKiddo Silly Rabbit
Great Old One Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Total posts: 137 Location: Apartment 5B Gender: Female |
| Posted: 16-07-2009 13:49 Post subject: |
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| romieh wrote: |
p.s. i read your end quote as 'guard with jealous attention the public library' etc ....a whole new meaning, one i quite like... |
Especially when it says the bit about 'suspect anyone who approaches it' as there are some very suspect people in my local library |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-07-2009 18:37 Post subject: |
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| Patrick Henrys point is proven! We need to use force to defend the Public Library. Hence the need for a well Regulated Militia. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 05-08-2009 13:14 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Identification Of Brain Difference In Psychopaths
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/159877.php
05 Aug 2009
Professor Declan Murphy and colleagues Dr Michael Craig and Dr Marco Catani from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London have found differences in the brain which may provide a biological explanation for psychopathy. The results of their study are outlined in the paper 'Altered connections on the road to psychopathy', published in Molecular Psychiatry.
The research investigated the brain biology of psychopaths with convictions that included attempted murder, manslaughter, multiple rape with strangulation and false imprisonment. Using a powerful imaging technique (DT-MRI) the researchers have highlighted biological differences in the brain which may underpin these types of behaviour and provide a more comprehensive understanding of criminal psychopathy.
Dr Michael Craig said: 'If replicated by larger studies the significance of these findings cannot be underestimated. The suggestion of a clear structural deficit in the brains of psychopaths has profound implications for clinicians, research scientists and the criminal justice system.'
While psychopathy is strongly associated with serious criminal behaviour (eg rape and murder) and repeat offending, the biological basis of psychopathy remains poorly understood. Also some investigators stress mainly social reasons to explain antisocial behaviours. To date, nobody has investigated the 'connectivity' between the specific brain regions implicated in psychopathy.
Earlier studies had suggested that dysfunction of specific brain regions might underpin psychopathy. Such areas of the brain were identified as the amygdale, ie the area associated with emotions, fear and aggression, and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), the region which deals with decision making. There is a white matter tract that connects the amygdala and OFC, which is called the uncinate fasciculus (UF). However, nobody had ever studied the UF in psychopaths. The team from King's used an imaging method called in vivo diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) tractography to analyse the UF in psychopaths.
They found a significant reduction in the integrity of the small particles that make up the structure of the UF of psychopaths, compared to control groups of people with the same age and IQ. Also, the degree of abnormality was significantly related to the degree of psychopathy. These results suggest that psychopaths have biological differences in the brain which may help to explain their offending behaviours.
Dr Craig added: 'This study is part of an ongoing programme of research into the biological basis of criminal psychopathy. It highlights that exciting developments in brain imaging such as DT-MRI now offer neuroscientists the potential to move towards a more coherent understanding of the possible brain networks that underlie psychopathy, and potentially towards treatments for this mental disorder.'
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Louise Pratt
King's College London |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-10-2009 15:19 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-blooded
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427304.000-psychopaths-are-distracted-not-coldblooded.html
14 October 2009 by Ewen Callaway
AN ATTENTION deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may be what makes psychopathic individuals seem fearless. It's a finding that challenges the common characterisation of such people as cold-blooded predators.
"A lot of their problems may be a consequence of something that's almost like a learning difficulty," says Joseph Newman, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who investigated how prisoners with psychopathic personalities react when anticipating pain.
Previous experiments have suggested such people may not feel fear, while brain imaging studies have found abnormalities in the amygdala, a region that processes fear and other emotions. This has encouraged the perception that they are "emotionally shallow", Newman says. "People call them cold-blooded predators." But he questioned whether this was the whole story.
To tease apart why such people behave the way they do, Newman's team recruited 125 male prisoners convicted of serious crimes and scored them on traits characteristic of a psychopathic personality, including narcissism, impulsivity and callousness. About 20 per cent scored highly enough to be described as psychopathic - a proportion typical for criminals but well above the 1 per cent expected in the general population.
The researchers then hooked each prisoner up to a device that measures how strongly they blink - an indication of how afraid they are - and placed a screen in front of them. The subjects were warned that during tasks in which letters flashed on the screen, an electric shock would sometimes follow a red letter, but never a green one.
When instructed to push buttons to indicate whether letters were green or red, subjects with marked psychopathic characteristics flinched in response to red letters with the same strength as other subjects.
Yet when they were told to indicate whether letters were capitals or lower-case, the psychopathic prisoners barely blinked upon seeing red letters, while the others continued to anticipate the mild shock (Biological Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.07.035).
This suggests that psychopathic individuals sense fear as much as anyone, and only seem fearless because they find it harder to pay attention to what is scary and what is not, says Newman, who hopes his hypothesis can be used to discourage psychopathic repeat offenders. "They're famous for being difficult if not impossible to treat," he says.
Donald Hands, director of psychology at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, is working with Newman to design a pilot treatment programme. Reminding psychopathic lawbreakers of the immediate consequences of their actions, such as getting arrested and sent back to prison, might help to dissuade them from reoffending, he says.
Newman's finding may also persuade prison authorities to treat psychopathic individuals differently. "I think this shows that there's some humanity there," Hands says. "It challenges the belief that they are robots." |
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| James_H2 Great Old One Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Total posts: 709 Location: Hackney! Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-10-2009 23:40 Post subject: |
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The notion that peoples' mental quirks can be diagnosed by their drawing is not a new one. I remember being particularly disappointment by a rather less-than-insightful essay by Jung (someone I particularly admire) on Art (something I'm very interested in). He basically thought that ordered paintings were produced by neurotics (symptomatic of a desire to impose order on the world), and crazy ones (his example being Picasso-style cubism) as being done by schizophrenics.
As Ben Goldacre would say; 'I think it's a little more complicated than that'.
Perhaps there's something to it, or perhaps it's just as occult as Graphology. |
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| trevp66 Great Old One Joined: 29 May 2009 Total posts: 251 Location: Hertfordshire Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-10-2010 18:16 Post subject: |
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Dunno if this is the right place, but when I SEE posts where random WORDS are in uppercase I always think the person WRITING must be a psychopath.
(I'm not a psycho, I just put the random words in capitals by way of example) |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-10-2010 18:18 Post subject: |
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| trevp66 wrote: | Dunno if this is the right place, but when I SEE posts where random WORDS are in uppercase I always think the person WRITING must be a psychopath.
(I'm not a psycho, I just put the random words in capitals by way of example) |
Possibly just a common or garden nutter but there is a chance that the person is paranoid and believes in CONSPIRACY THEORIES. |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-10-2010 19:03 Post subject: |
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| trevp66 wrote: | | Dunno if this is the right place, but when I SEE posts where random WORDS are in uppercase I always think the person WRITING must be a psychopath. |
I think you'd make an excellent moderator  |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1110 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-10-2010 23:32 Post subject: |
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| HeY HOw wiErd! |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 26-10-2010 00:10 Post subject: |
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| Spudrick68 wrote: | | HeY HOw wiErd! |
LoL |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-10-2010 14:58 Post subject: |
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| WhistlingJack wrote: | | trevp66 wrote: | | Dunno if this is the right place, but when I SEE posts where random WORDS are in uppercase I always think the person WRITING must be a psychopath. |
I think you'd make an excellent moderator |
MaDerator? |
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| trevp66 Great Old One Joined: 29 May 2009 Total posts: 251 Location: Hertfordshire Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-10-2010 15:02 Post subject: |
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I'd be far too strict as a moderator and there really aren't enough hours in the day. IMO the existing mods do a fine job. But thanks for the recommendation.
I would probably need some kind of pschological evaluation before embarking on a career as a mod anyway. Or after. |
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| Dr_Baltar |
| Posted: 26-10-2010 15:07 Post subject: |
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| trevp66 wrote: |
(I'm not a psycho, I just put the random words in capitals by way of example) |
That's exactly the sort of thing a psycho would say. |
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