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RE: BEWARE: Emotionally Intelligent Psychopaths

in #psychology6 years ago

allright. Take you by your word:)

"What is the "undistorted" standard from which the distortion deviates?"

I slightly altered the sentence but it's part of my newest steemstem article.

Where is the sharp dividing line that distinguishes a clinical pathology from a person on the move in the world who has various moments of lying, cheating, manipulating and deliberately feigning?

Is the dividing line where someone physically overreaches, where he physically hurts, even kills others? Is that the classic psychopath?

Which psychopaths are we talking about? Has someone who has been known in history as a dictator and brutal criminal, for example, been surrounded by nothing but normal people who supported his regime?

Is the border so easy to set?

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Heinz von Foerster

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Fundamental questions in psychology, which still boggle our minds until today :) Where is the line? Does it even exist? It has to. But how to define it?

Love the quote by the way. Didn't know it.

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