Are psychopaths untreatable?

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document in English

sociology

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published 16/09/2008

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Psychopathy equals violence. Whatever rubric is used identifies a person with a greater likelihood of violence, often motivated by opportunism, sadism or material gain. Treatment responsivity and harm reduction as treatment success in high-risk or repetitive offenders seems overreaching. It would be ideal and even a “magic bullet” to be able to predict dangerousness with absolute certainty but, currently, there’s no successful model for intervention and a diagnosis of psychopathy mostly means that treatment is unlikely to work.

Abstract.
Introduction.
The many distinguishing features of Psychopathy.
The idea of relapse prevention.
To examine the psychopath construct.
Psychopathy as a socially devastating disorder.
Professional override, the possibility that a clinician's judgment could be subjective or applied unevenly.
Conclusion.