Sociopathic Behavior

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A detailed term paper discussing the previously misunderstood personality disorder that psychologists refer to as sociopathy. The paper presents an in-depth look at the disorder, comparing it to its cousin disorders, psychopathy and multiple personality disorder, and discussing the different branches of sociopathic behavior. As a closing, the paper presents a detailed case of a very famous criminal sociopath, Ted Bundy.

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"What would happen if a person was born without a conscience, without the socially acceptable conceptions of right and wrong? What kind of person would they be? Oddly, they wouldn't seem all that different from you and me. The small percentage of individuals I am referring to suffer from a mental disorder called sociopathy; and unlike many others who are affected by a psychological disorder (especially a personality disorder) these people do not normally present any unusual behavior to the outside world. In fact, one of the fundamental characteristics of most sociopaths is the extremely clever means by which they go about covering up their disturbing illness. Sociopaths, however, do not hide their disease due to any sense of shame or self-resentment they feel but usually out of sheer cunning. You see, because sociopaths do not perceive the same boundaries that regular human beings do, they tend to be manipulative and deceitful. Often time's serial killers are found to be sociopaths, and it makes sense. With no principles, ethics or scruples of any kind and no appreciation for the lives of others, sociopaths are practically the perfect killing machines."

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