The Impact of Psychopathy on the Family

Leedom, Liane J.

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“…Partner and relationship characteristics in the subgroup reported herein (18% of the sample) did not differ from those of the rest of the larger study sample (Leedom et al, 2017). The ages of this subgroup were as follows: 30 to 39 years (17%), 40 to 49 (29%), 50 to 59 years (39%), and older than 60 (16%; percentages may not total 100 because of rounding).…”

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“…In evaluating studies of partner choice by clients who have sustained intimate partner abuse, counselors must recognize that many survivors did not suffer childhood trauma or have personality disorder traits; they report being deceived or manipulated into the relationship (Leedom, 2017). Leedom (2017) reviewed all available studies of assortative mating for personality traits associated with ASPD/psychopathy. Studies do indicate that people with these traits have a small tendency to pair (this includes women with borderline personality traits pairing with men with ASPD/psychopathy traits); the personality traits worsen over time in the presence of marital conflict.…”

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“…One longitudinal study demonstrated that childhood adversity caused poor self‐regulation, which then correlated with women partnering with antisocial men (Moffitt, Caspi, Rutter, & Silva, 2001), and men with traits of ASPD/psychopathy may be attractive to women because of their dominance behavior (Buss, 1989; S. L. Johnson et al, 2012). However, most men and women with ASPD/psychopathy are not paired with a partner with a personality disorder (Leedom, 2017).…”

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“…Men and women with traits of ASPD/psychopathy seek out and cultivate relationships with intimate partners who meet their personal, social, and material needs (Leedom, 2017). Individuals with ASPD/psychopathy possess and enact love scripts (Gawda, 2010) to seduce their partners, whom they then seek to control and exploit (M. A. Dutton & Goodman, 2005; Leedom, Geislin, & Hartoonian Almas, 2013).…”

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Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions

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Glynn³

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This study obtained feedback from intimate partner abuse survivors (N = 104) regarding helpful and unhelpful aspects of therapy. The survivors’ narrative accounts and answers to quantitative questions were subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis. Results suggest that survivors sought therapy to understand themselves and the abuse they endured. Clinicians’ diagnoses of codependency or assertions that survivors chose the relationship weakened the therapeutic alliance and reduced the perceived helpfulness of therapy.

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Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions

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What Can We Learn About Psychopathic Offenders by Studying Their Communication? A Review of the Literature

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Sakshaug²

2018

J Psycholinguist Res

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Experts have long warned against psychotherapy with psychopathic offenders out of a fear that they will beguile therapists into believing they have been rehabilitated, only to commit new offenses upon release. Yet the question is not whether to communicate with psychopathic offenders, but rather how to do so in a way which can facilitate real change. In this article, we ask: What can we learn about psychopathic offenders by studying their communication? We review the literature and describe how psychopathy is manifested in communication, how psychopathy can be understood based on this communication, and how therapists may communicate with psychopaths to create change and avoid being fooled. We recommend that therapists do not withdraw from psychopathic offenders but rather study their communication more carefully.

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The Differentiation of Narrative Styles in Individuals with High Psychopathic Deviate

Gawda

2021

J Psycholinguist Res

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The current study was designed to show the differentiation of narrative styles in individuals with high scores in Psychopathic deviate (Pd) scale and develop a method enabling identification of psychopathic personality traits based on linguistic indicators. 600 spontaneous narrations related to emotional topics have been examined for grammar, syntactic, and lexical indicators. The indicators have been selected based on a review related to language of psychopaths. The narrations were written by 200 persons who were also tested for psychopathic deviate and intelligence level, including prisoners diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder. Independent judges identified the linguistic indicators which were then counted for each person with the use of computer software. The configuration profiles of the linguistic indicators/narrative styles were established using k-mean clustering method. Then, ANOVA was performed to show which clusters differentiate the levels of psychopathic deviate. The findings show there are two configurations of language features (important: single features were not examined) associated with high levels of psychopathic deviate patterns. Two narrative styles were identified, labelled demonstrative-digressive-egocentric-emotional-dogmatic and reserved-focused on the topic-repetitive, which indicate high psychopathic deviate traits. The ROC curves were applied to establish the prediction of the narrative styles for high psychopathic deviate scores.

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The Impact of Psychopathy on the Family

Cited by 9 publications

References 105 publications

Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions

Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions

What Can We Learn About Psychopathic Offenders by Studying Their Communication? A Review of the Literature

The Differentiation of Narrative Styles in Individuals with High Psychopathic Deviate

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