WO R K I N G WITH P S YC H O PAT H Y

By Dr Nikolaos Souvlakis
• The first characteristic of a Psychopath is the narcissistic
understanding of self.
• Psychopaths are very aware of what they are.
• They function differently than other people.
• Only the psychopath knows and can reveal the mask to
see the coldness inside, and they are aware of it.
• A narcissistic injury drives a lot of psychopath
behaviour.
• Such a Narcissistic attitude here is the sign of a
psychopath.
Psychopaths experience life completely differently than the
plethora. They share interactions and relationships with
themselves and others differently than the majority.
Sometimes, this is an indication that psychopathy is a
personality construct that has a lot of elements in it from a
very young age.
The equation here is that certain personality traits, in
combination with certain behaviours, create psychopathy,
which are:

• Psychopathy represents Callousness.

• Lack of empathy Uncaring
• Self-centred
• Uses people as paws to self-gratify
 DO THEY CARE FOR OTHERS

Is it unusual for a psychopath to feel emotions?

• Recent research suggests that it is not.
• Psychopaths do feel emotions, but
usually, they are a way to be mean.
Hence
• They feel emotion to reach the goals that
they set for themselves.
 DO THEY SHOW REGRET

Psychopaths can feel emotions like care in Star Wars,

kindness here, or even regret.
However, the regret is retrospect, not a prospect.
Hence, they do feel emotions, but it is always about
their goals or themselves.
They are very charming and go under our skin to draw
us into their world, where they have the upper hand.
You never know what you will get as they are
pathologically liars.
You never know who you will see, and mostly, you see a
reflection of a mask, as we show in the first video.
 OTHER

Stalking: B E H AV I O U R S
Rejected stalking
Predatory stalking
Erotomatic stalking
Incompetent suitor stalking
Resentful stalking
 D O E S IT H AV E TO B E S E XUA L ?

Psychopaths do not have to demonstrate a sexual component

in their acts; sometimes, it is about the assault or the killing,
not about the sex.
That might be linked with the sexual sadism elements.
So, psychopaths are not always interested in sexual
pleasure or sexual gratification.

They can be interested or motivated by other things as well,

such as toying with people, killing, financial greed, and hurting
people.
 F I X AT I O N

Sometimes, we see in psychopathy individuals with some or even poor

social skills developing fixation towards someone (incompetent suitor type
of stalking)
They, therefore, develop a disturbed reality that the other person loves them
or is interested when they are unavailable.

Is that not stalking?

No is the answer here because the fixation usually leads to some attachment
form linked with a frantic behaviour to avoid rejection or abandonment,
creating parasitic co-dependency, which can lead to violent means to prevent
rejection or abandonment.
There is also a link to the paranoid-schizoid position of the persecutory split.