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Old 11-21-2008, 01:28 PM   #16
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what's a primary psychopath and how do you treat that?

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Old 11-21-2008, 01:41 PM   #17
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lol- you don't really treat it- although some researchers are trying to tell us that you can- but its still largely unproven- anyhoo
Wikipedia actually has a pretty comprehensive but slightly out of date article on it - the term you might use in the US is probably sociopathy- which is similar but not the same diagnostically - but then we can't use psychopathy as a diagnosis anyway as the correct diagnosis would be anti-social personality disorder- the two sub-types of psychopathy just describing different cluster-sets of symptomologies and differentiating between the psychopathy attached to or derived from another primary disorder such as schizophrenia or OCD or Bi-polar as opposed to being the 'sole' diagnosis and therefore 'primary'- there is also a differentiation between the 'instrumental' nature of the one type over the 'impulsiveness' of the other

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Old 11-21-2008, 01:54 PM   #18
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Meh, what the hell do you know about psychiatry, psychodiva?

I'll take my advice from our resident neurologist/psychiatrist Cal, who has read dozens (dozens, I tell you!) of articles. What good is your degree compared to that kind of knowledge?

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Old 11-21-2008, 02:16 PM   #19
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obviously nothing compared to the humble expert opinion of Cal

but seriously- I'm not an expert- if you want one of those read some stuff by Hare or Monahan or read some attachment stuff by Phil Rich (great guy) or more attachment stuff by Marshall (another great guy) to do with sexual offending. There is loads out there- just don't go for the pure research stuff - go for the clinicians who actually work with them rather than pure neurological research as all they can do is show you how their brain works- also don't read the old FBI stuff- its a lot out of date and a lot sensationalised the stuff by Douglas etal that is.

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Old 11-21-2008, 06:06 PM   #20
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Old 11-21-2008, 06:20 PM   #21
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Old 11-21-2008, 06:21 PM   #22
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Amazing! I didn't think Oprah would pose for vegetable sculptors.

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Old 11-21-2008, 06:23 PM   #23
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They are art, Stern my man!

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Old 11-21-2008, 06:33 PM   #24
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They are art, Stern my man!
Another OCD example?

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Old 11-21-2008, 06:41 PM   #27
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Yeah. It reminded me of how I've arranged my crayons.


I like crayons.

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Old 11-22-2008, 12:54 PM   #28
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Old 11-22-2008, 01:17 PM   #29
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just a cut 'n paste of stuff I already posted at redcafe - man united - forum. We seem to have exposed one of the scumbags there. Moniker of UKBob. Then again we seem to have a fair share of racists on the forum there - Oldham being a hotbead of BNP support and not so far from Old Trafford.

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Old 11-22-2008, 02:06 PM   #30
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@riddler;

Ian Paisely comes to mind,and an old joke about him:

(imagine broad brogue) He's ranting at a rally to expel all Catholics from Northern Ireland;;

"--and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth by the Catlicks in hell!"

An old man in the audience asks,reasonably "What about those who have no teeth?"

The thunderous reply "Teeth will be provided!"


(Paisley allegedly actually said that))
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