On Psychopaths

Last night I watched a TV documentary called "I, Psychopath" in which a journalist attempted to delineate the characteristics of a psychopath from scientific journals and writers and from a man who admitted to being a psychopath. I found it very interesting because it made me realize that I have had contact with a psychopath who was a member of my mother's household during her third marriage and who made her life miserable especially during her last two years' of life. A psychopath has no conscience; a psychopath does not show emotion; a psychopath is narcissistic; a psychopath does not have empathy. A psychopath takes great pride in manipulating others and lashes out in anger towards others for no apparent reason. A psychopath plays with others' minds until those around her/him begin to doubt their own view of themselves.