Essays on Psychopaths

The relation between psychopathy and biology truly remains a mystery yet still holds a vital link to understanding the biological basis of psychopathy. Biology is the science of life focusing on structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution of living organisms. The definition of psychopathy...

Psychopathy is defined as, “egocentricity, impulsivity, callousness, and lack of remorse for behavior that is frequently antisocial and hurtful to others.” and thus is classified as a personality/mental disorder. Like many other mental illnesses, psychopathy may be linked to a different structure or makeup of...

When we think of “Psychopaths” or the term “Psychopathy”, the things that tend to jump into our mind are those of manipulators, terrorists, psychotic serial killers, the coldblooded murderers portrayed in horror movies or the sort of nightly creatures that crawl in the worst of...

The chosen topic of this review and synthesis is to look at one of the members of the ‘dark triad’ – psychopaths and how they find their way into the organizations or corporations therefore becoming a “corporate psychopath’’ or an ‘’organizational psychopath’’. It is important...

Psychopathy is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterised by persistent antisocial behaviour, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, egotistical traits. There have long been discussions about whether a psychopath is born or made, by which the suggestion is that a person has either...

To begin with, those who argue that psychopaths are born may refer to the study conducted by the scientists from ‘the Kings College London’s Institute of Psychiatry’ in which magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans used to assess the levels of grey matter in the sixty-six...

An in-depth look at some of the most ruthless female serial killers that history has overlooked and why men are sought out to be the target of these crimes. Quiet Killers (2020) focuses on some of the world’s most notorious women serial killers who are...

Aileen Wuornos, originally known as Aileen Pittman, was a sexually abused child who went on to become an ill-reputed American serial killer. Aileen was responsible for the murder of seven men. On 9th October 2002, she was sentenced to death and put to sleep with...

To become a serial killer you need to have traumatic events happen at the younger ages of your life. For Aileen Wuornos, her entire childhood was built with trauma making her the perfect candidate. Her mother abandoned her and her father was in prison, leaving...

After watching the movie ‘Life and Death of a Serial Killer’ starring Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s first female serial killers; I started asking why people are becoming serial killers? What’s so special about killing, and what’s triggering the anticipation, urge, and desire? Which exactly...