Scholars have been proposing several theories regarding our personality. But what is a personality? Personality is described as the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique, different than others and these thoughts, feelings and behaviors are relatively permanent. Hans Eysenck suggested that genetics are primarily responsible for personality and that […]
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Personality disorders: To be classified as a personality disorder, one’s way of thinking, feeling and behaving deviates from the expectations of the culture, causes distress or problems functioning, and lasts over time. The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits. To
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Would you tell us what the term paraphilia means and what is a paraphilia? Dr. Park Dietz: ‘’The term paraphilia comes from Greek roots and was reintroduced in 1980 as a means of getting away from the term sexual deviation that had been used before that time, and the Greek Roots refer to the idea
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Amber Rene Hagerman (November 25, 1986 – January 15, 1996) was a nine-year-old girl abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas. Her younger brother, Ricky, had gone home without her because Amber had wanted to stay in the parking lot of an abandoned grocery store for a while. When he returned with his grandfather, they only found
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Dr. Michael H. Stone was a psychiatrist and scholar. Dr. Stone’s work lent support to the need for flexibility in the therapeutic approach to treating borderline personality disorder. Stone was also recognized for refining the concept of psychopathy, as described by Dr. Robert D. Hare and Dr. David Cooke. He is the author of many books, but his books
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John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. His conviction for thirty-three murders, by one individual, then covered the most homicides in United States legal history. Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13,
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After long thinking and researching I had come to the conclusion that our societies are civilized and therefore people are happier depending on how we treat the worst among us – those in prisons; how we treat minorities and marginalized groups. I was so proud of that conclusion, but then I was reading Fyodor Dostoevsky
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BPD in people can be observe by instability of emotions in the first place, but as a result of that, instability of behaviors, self-image and all aspects of a personality is present. DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is used in the US, but BPD is also known as EUPD (Emotionally unstable personality
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Belinda Van Krevel has been jailed for stabbing a second partner in 10 years, reopening the wounds of one of Wollongong’s darkest chapters. In 2003, Belinda Van Krevel was sentenced to six years’ jail after she was convicted of soliciting a man, her boyfriend, to murder her abusive father, Jack Van Krevel. In a 2001
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Zimbardo and his colleagues (1973) were interested in finding out whether the brutality reported among guards in American prisons was due to the sadistic personalities of the guards (i.e., dispositional) or had more to do with the prison environment (i.e., situational). Do guards have to behave sometimes aggressively, because they are dealing with people who
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