008 - Motives of a Psychopath

Psychopath in Your Life

-Podcast Show Notes-

Episode 008 Summary:

In Episode 008, Dianne dives further into the complexities that explain psychopaths become who they are. One's background and childhood could account for part of this, but it isn't a clear-cut cause and effect relationship for ALL psychopaths. Listen as Dianne shares more of her discoveries through the interviews she's performed, why it's important to show empathy to the parents of psychopaths, and how psychopaths can manipulate their diagnostic test results.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:11 – Introduction to Psychopath in Your Life

• 00:18 – Today's episode is a follow up on the article: When Your Child is a Psychopath

• 00:49 – "If we don't understand the past, we have no path forward to the future"

• 00:54 – Dianne received a disturbing email regarding blaming the parents

  • 01:07 – We're not blaming the parents

• 01:23 – Carl, the young man in the article went to a facility

  • 01:37 – The big problem Dianne sees is there is no data for him beyond the age of 18

  • 01:46 – Carl called the facility to report what he was doing

  • 01:57 – The reporter paid a visit

  • 02:06 – Interview with his family reveals that Carl is doing terrifically – better than expected

  • 02:27 – Carl's wife had a different story – it was a disastrous relationship

  • 02:52 – The part that's alarming is Carl now owns a funeral home

• 03:26 – We don't have a way to know how psychopath genes get passed

• 03:57 – Dianne's book contains 3 interviews with psychopaths

  • 04:08 – One went through the diagnostic process of the psychopathic disorder

  • 04:25 – Dianne's question was, "How compliant were you?"

  • 04:30 – The psychopath answered, "I was very tempted throughout this process to manipulate the results"

  • 04:41 – Manipulation is always on a psychopath's mind

  • 05:06 – The goal is to get the victim to tell more about themselves and the psychopath to be the great listener

• 05:40 – Psychopaths seek out kind and caring people

• 06:17 – There's a stronger possibility of using the card of the victim as a deflector

• 06:59 – Dianne has so much empathy towards parents

• 07:19 – Dianne shares a quote from a parent, "The #1 Reason is he's my son and he's incapable of returning that loving kind, #2: I might have played a part in making him that way, #3: He's my son and I love him, and #4: Is it in me too?"

• 07:58 – Verbalizing or writing it down makes it much more real to people

• 08:30 – There's a certain clarity that happens in writing our thoughts

• 09:05 – Victims try to excuse bad behavior of psychopaths to try to deflect the pain they've gone through

• 09:42 – Pay attention and listen to your gut

• 10:04 – The next episode will be about the more specific signs to look for

• 10:11 – Get in touch with Dianne on her website.

3 Key Points:

1. There's still no way to find out how psychopathic genes get passed – you just have to look for the symptoms.

2. It's not cut and dry—the parents are not always to blame if a person becomes a psychopath.

3. Don't paint the red flags white – listen to your gut.

Resources Mentioned:

• Psychopaths in Our Lives: My Interviews
• When Your Child is a Psychopath – Article from The Atlantic Magazine that Dianne mentioned

Psychopaths in Our Lives: My Interviews

• Amazon

• iBooks

Credits

• Podcast Production and Editing Service rendered by Daniel Roth

• Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

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