Category: Sociopath

Q & A – What is Malicious Parent syndrome?

Malicious Parent Syndrome (MPS) is a term used to describe a pattern of behavior exhibited by a parent, usually during or after a contentious divorce or child custody battle, who uses their child as a weapon to hurt the other parent. MPS is not a recognized psychiatric disorder, but rather a behavior pattern that can be seen in individuals who exhibit high levels of anger, vindictiveness, and a desire for revenge.

Parents with MPS may attempt to turn their child against the other parent, engage in parental alienation, or use their child to gather information about the other parent. They may also interfere with the other parent’s court-ordered visitation, deny access to the child, or make false accusations of abuse or neglect.

MPS can have a serious negative impact on the child’s well-being, as it can cause emotional distress, confusion, and feelings of guilt and loyalty conflict. It is important for parents and professionals involved in custody and visitation disputes to be aware of the potential for MPS and take steps to prevent it from occurring.

©Linda Turner http://parentalalienationpas.com 2023

A comprehensive beginner’s guide to becoming a sociopath

Sociopathy. The word makes “good” people cringe. It is a very real syndrome that affects young and old. In general there are ten real symptoms:

  1. Not learning from experience.
  2. No sense of responsibility.
  3. Inability to form meaningful relationships.
  4. Inability to control impulses.
  5. Lack of moral sense.
  6. Chronically antisocial behavior.
  7. No change in behavior after punishment.
  8. Emotional immaturity.
  9. Lack of guilt.
  10. Self-centeredness.

If you are a sociopath you probably don’t know it, but if you want to be a sociopath and have fun unlike all the other blockheads in the world, then this is the recipe for you.

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Articles by Dr George Simon

Narcissistic Truth Distortion Is Just Manipulation – Dr. George Simon

Shame and Shamelessness – Dr George Simon

Narcissism and Empathy Capacity – Dr. George Simon

Do Narcissists Really Believe They’re Always Right? – Dr. George Simon

Narcissists Hate It When You Have Their Number – Dr. George Simon

Predators Among Us: The Psychopaths – Dr. George Simon

The Aggressive Personalities – Part 2 Dr George Simon

Character Disturbance: the phenomenon of our age

Predatory people are on the lookout for empathic, resilient people

Why Meeting Multiple Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths Is More Common Than You Think

In Sheep’s Clothing

Horrendous lack of respect

Successful psychological manipulation primarily involves the manipulator

Why Some Never Seem to Learn

Looking Good Vs. Being Good

Articles and Videos by Richard Grannon

 

Articles by Sam Vaknin

About Sam Vaknin, Author of Narcissism Book

I am not a mental health professional, though I was certified in Counseling Techniques. I work as a financial consultant to leading businesses and to governments in several countries.”

About Sam Vaknin, Author of Narcissism Book
Watch “True understanding of the Psychopath Mindset || Richard Grannon and Sam Vaknin”
Tell Your Children the Truth By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Custody and Visitation – By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
The Narcissist and His Family-By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Typology of Revenge – By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Cold Empathy: The Narcissist as Predator – Sam Vaknin
For all of those that know my situation!
The Narcissistic Abuse Study Group
How to Confront The Narcissist?
Dissociation And Confabulation In Narcissistic Disorders
Never trust a narcissist – oops I mean psychopath
Do narcissists hate women?
The Narcissist and Money
Confronting a Narcissist With His Own Behavior: What Will Happen?
The Narcissist as an Old Person

Character Disturbance: the phenomenon of our age

Modern permissiveness and the new culture of entitlement allows disturbed people to reach adulthood without proper socialization. In a book meant both for the general public and for professionals, bestselling author and psychologist George Simon explains in plain English:

•How most disturbed characters think.
•The habitual behaviors the disturbed use to avoid responsibility and to manipulate, deceive, and exploit others.
•Why victims in relationships with disturbed characters do not get help they need from traditional therapies.
•A straightforward guide to recognizing and understanding all relevant personality types, especially those most likely to undermine relationships.
•A new framework for making sense of the crazy world many find themselves in when there’s a disturbed character in their lives.
•Concrete principles that promote responsibility and positive change when engaging disturbed characters.
•Tactics (for both lay persons and therapists) to lessen the chances for victimization and empower those who would otherwise be victims in their relationships with many types of disturbed characters.

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Dangerous Mind Games: Pointing Fingers at Others.

Pointing Fingers at Others. When you accuse a psychopath of wrongdoing, he’s likely to tell you that another person is just as bad as him or that humanity in general is. The first point may or may not be true. At any rate, it’s irrelevant. So what if person x, y or z–say, one of the psychopath’s friends or girlfriends–has done similarly harmful things or manifests some of his bad qualities? The most relevant point to you, if you’re the psychopath’s partner, should be how he behaves and what his actions say about him. The second point is patently false. All human beings have flaws, of course. But we don’t all suffer from an incurable personality disorder. If you have any doubts about that, then you should research the matter. Google his symptoms, look up psychopathy and see if all or even most of the people you know exhibit them. Of course, even normal individuals can sometimes be manipulative, can sometimes lie and can sometimes cheat. But that doesn’t make our actions comparable to the magnitude of remorseless deceit, manipulation and destruction that psychopaths are capable of. Furthermore, most of us, whatever our flaws, care about others.

Continue reading “Dangerous Mind Games: Pointing Fingers at Others.”

Parents with personality disorders routinely display extreme behaviors.

  • Parental alienation tends to occur in divorces when one parent repeatedly displays extreme words and behavior about the other parent.
  • People with personality disorders tend to have a pattern of repeating hostile and unpredictable behavior in the presence of their children.
  • When parents repeatedly display extreme emotion and behavior, children tend to develop emotional problems, which may include parental alienation.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/202209/do-personality-disorders-contribute-parental

Meet the manipulators, narcissists, and psychopaths who play at being victims.

Real victims are heroic; pretend ones are dangerous. Here are a few of the latter variety who have popped up in the true-crimeheadlines. In 2017, Lloyd Neurauter convinced his 19-year-old-daughter, Karrie, that his soon-to-be ex-wife had ruined his life and that he was going to commit suicide if she didn’t help him kill her mother; she did. 

Disgraced U.K. citizen Julie Parker will be sentenced in March 2021 for her fraud conviction; in 2017, apparently short on wedding cash, she funded her nuptials by telling friends and family members that she had been diagnosed with cancer and only had a year to live. Like the good people they were, they all chipped in to make sure she had the wedding day she dreamed of. 

And, last but certainly not least, there is Jaclyn McGowan. Apparently enraged that a one-night stand with her victim, Jamie Aitken, did not lead to something more, McGowan began a campaign of harassment that included pretending to be pregnant (showing him baby scans and wearing a belly prosthesis), seeking money for alleged baby goods, and attempting to turn his family against him by making false accusations of mistreatment and neglect.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/202103/predators-who-pretend-be-victims

What is a Psychodynamic Science?

The study of the interaction and interdependence of psychological variables at various level of awareness. 

  • Gordon, R. M.  (2007, spring). The Powerful Combination of the MMPI-2 and the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, Independent Practitioner, 84–85.
  • Gordon, R. M. (2007, November/December). PDM valuable in identifying high-risk patients National Psychologist, 16, (6), November/December, pp. 4.
  • Gordon, R.M. (2008). Early reactions to the PDM by Psychodynamic, CBT and Other  psychologists. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, XXVI, 1, Winter, p.13.
  • Gordon, R.M. (2009). Reactions to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) by Psychodynamic, CBT and Other Non- Psychodynamic Psychologists. Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology,31,1,55-62. 
  • Gordon, R.M. (2010).The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM). InI. Weiner and E. Craighead, (Eds.) Corsini’s Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th ed., volume 3, 1312-1315),Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Gordon, R.M. (2012). A Psychological Alternative to the Medically Based DSM and ICD, The National Psychologist May/June, vol. 21, 3, p. 19.
  • Bornstein, R. F. and Gordon, R. M. (2012). What Do Practitioners Want in a Diagnostic Taxonomy? Comparing the PDM with DSM and ICD. Division/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, Fall, 6, 35.
  • Gordon, R.M. and Stoffey, R.W. and Perkins, B.L. (2013) Comparing the Sensitivity of the MMPI-2 Clinical Scales and the MMPI-RC Scales to Clients Rated as Psychotic, Borderline or Neurotic on the Psychodiagnostic Chart, Psychology: Special issue on Criminal Investigative Psychology, 4, 9A, 12-16. doi: 10.4236/psych.2013.49A1003.
  • Gordon, R.M. and Stoffey, R.W. (2014). Operationalizing the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: a Preliminary Study of the Psychodiagnostic Chart (PDC), Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic,78,1, 1-15.
  • Gazzillo, F., Lingiardi, V., Del Corno, F., Genova, F., Bornstein, R.F., Gordon, R.M., McWilliams,  N. (2014). Clinicians’ Emotional Responses and PDM P Axis Personality Disorders: A Clinically Relevant Empirical Investigation. Psychotherapy, Special Section: Personality and Psychotherapy, 52(2),238-246. 
  • Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Bornstein, R.F., Gazzillo, F. and Gordon, R.M. (2015) The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Version 2 (PDM-2):  Assessing Patients for Improved Clinical Practice and Research, Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32(1), 94-115.
  • Huprich, S., Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Bornstein, R., Gazzillo, F., and Gordon, R.M., (2015). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and the PDM-2:  Opportunities to Significantly Affect the Profession.Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 35: 60-73.
  • Gordon, R.M., Gazzillo, F., Blake, A., Bornstein, R.F., Etzi, J., Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Rothery, C. and Tasso, A.F. (2015)  The Relationship Between Theoretical Orientation and Countertransference Awareness: Implications for Ethical Dilemmas and Risk Management, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Spektor, V., Luu, L. & Gordon, R.M. (2015) The Relationship between Theoretical Orientation and Accuracy of Countertransference Expectations., Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63(4), NP28-NP32.
  • Gordon, R.M., Blake, A., Bornstein, R.F., Gazzillo, F., Etzi, J., Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Rothery, C. and Tasso, A.F. (2016) What do practitioners consider the most helpful personality taxa in understanding their patients? Division/Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum, 14. 
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