Great post, Jason. I studied psychopathy for my post graduate thesis. Two things really stood out to me. Firstly, how over represented psychopaths are in certain professions (politcs being one of them). Secondly, how ineffective the majority of psychological and medical interventions are on respect of 'treating' the condition.
Thanks, Dave. I’m glad you liked the post. You are absolutely right about psychopaths being over-represented in certain professions. Politics us just one example. Academia is another &, I suspect, policing, too, though you’d know better than I would! Psychopaths tend to be attracted to any
profession than involves power over others, after all. Trying to treat psychopathy strikes me as a bit like making a New Year’s resolution for someone else. You might kind of hope they’ll behave differently in future, bit equally you’re pretty sure it is t going to last the full twelve months.
I knew that non-planfulness was a thing, but I did not know it was a word.
Some of these academic neologisms are awful tin-eared I must admit.
Great post, Jason. I studied psychopathy for my post graduate thesis. Two things really stood out to me. Firstly, how over represented psychopaths are in certain professions (politcs being one of them). Secondly, how ineffective the majority of psychological and medical interventions are on respect of 'treating' the condition.
Thanks, Dave. I’m glad you liked the post. You are absolutely right about psychopaths being over-represented in certain professions. Politics us just one example. Academia is another &, I suspect, policing, too, though you’d know better than I would! Psychopaths tend to be attracted to any
profession than involves power over others, after all. Trying to treat psychopathy strikes me as a bit like making a New Year’s resolution for someone else. You might kind of hope they’ll behave differently in future, bit equally you’re pretty sure it is t going to last the full twelve months.