Are psychopaths drawn to each other?

According to a study published in the Journal of Personality in April, by researchers at Emory University, it was found that psychopaths are, indeed, attracted to others who had psychopathic tendencies. Others with non-psychopathic dispositions of course did not find the majority of these traits attractive.

Are psychopaths rational?

According to him, psychopaths, being rational individuals that fail to be motivated by moral reasons, offer a counterexample to those that assume that moral rationalism is a conceptual or empirical truth.

Is being a lifetime actor part of being a psychopath?

It is part of the act. Nevertheless this is just one aspect of an overall tendency of psychopaths to be lifetime actors, in the sense they are constantly having to project a fake image of themselves to the people around them to conceal the destructive, toxic person they really are. Some are better at creating and sustaining this mask than others.

Why do we feel pity for psychopaths?

Psychopaths therefore must do everything they can to constantly keep this Mask of Sanity or pretense up, all day, every day, to everyone they meet. This is when we start to feel pity for the psychopath, as a normal person imagines what it must be like to have to do this all the time, and the constant effort and energy it must entail.

How do psychopaths interact with their victims on an everyday level?

However, exactly the same principle can be brought down the micro level of how psychopaths interact with people in their lives on an everyday level. They are constantly acting; projecting an image of a certain person to their victims that is the opposite of who they really are.

What is the Mask of sanity by Hervey Cleckley?

The Mask of Sanity, available on Amazon, is a classic text on psychopathy by former psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley, where he goes into great detail about the “mask” that toxic psychopaths wear. Cleckley details how this mask conceals a chaotic inner world devoid of real emotion and empathy and chronically destructive towards the self and others.