Personality disorder Quote by T. Rivers, Clarence

“Many people believe that all psychopaths are aggressive individuals with violent tendencies, and that all of them are criminals capable of doing horrendous crimes.…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“As Robert Hare, the world’s leading expert on psychopathy has stated, psychopaths are “intra-species predators.” They have the “capacity to do great harm, repeatedly,…

— Joe Navarro

“while psychopathy is said to be caused primarily by genetic factors, sociopathy is said to be the result of psycho-social and environmental ones.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“In other words, psychopathy is being recognized as a more or less different type of human.”

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

“Women often feel ridiculous that they let someone this disordered into their lives and they didn't even recognize the symptoms until she was way…

— Sandra L. Brown

“Psychological experts claim that genetics are the primary factors in play with psychopathy, although traumatic events in the environment may be the triggers.”

— T. Rivers, Clarence

“As a counterpoint to sociopathy, the condition of narcissism is particularly interesting and instructive. Narcissism is, in a metaphorical sense, one half of what…

— Martha Stout

“I realised from quite early on in my childhood that I saw things differently from other people,' he wrote. 'But, more than not, it's…

— Kevin Dutton

“Here’s a simple reminder: not all psychopaths are criminals, and not all criminals are psychopaths. In fact, you may have an acquaintance who can…

— T. Rivers, Clarence

People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.

— Simon Baron-Cohen

“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their…

— Geoffrey Miller

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social…

— Robert D. Hare