We are an organization of 29 people, spreading the truth about Psychopathy. To date, we have had 88,500 visitors to our website, 2,770,000 views of our YouTube videos, and 38,000 people take our screeners. We look forward to continuing to grow and spread the word about psychopathy.
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Raising awareness AND DISPELLING MYTHS
Psychopathy Is co-founder Abigail Marsh on why some people are more altruistic and others are psychopathic.
PSYCHOPATHY IS... About truth. Separating fact from fiction. Freeing sufferers and their families from stigma. And helping them find a place where they feel free to share their story.
PSYCHOPATHY IS... About hope. About letting people know the disorder can be treatable.
PSYCHOPATHY IS... About resources. We have assembled the most comprehensive and scientifically accurate set of videos, articles an podcasts on Psychopathy on the internet.
PSYCHOPATHY IS... changing the conversation about this misunderstood disorder.
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Personal Stories
A Psychopath’s Story
Remorse is alien to me. I have a penchant for deceit. I am generally free of entangling and irrational emotions. I am strategic and canny, intelligent...
A Sociopath’s Story*
As a wife and a mother, I have learned how to tell the truth. Which is why I always know when my husband is lying. My husband was trying to tell me...
A Parent’s Story
How do you sum up a lifetime of abuse in 700 words? I don’t think you really can. The abuse didn’t just come from the child I carried for nine months when...
A Researcher’s Story
If you ever have felt compassion for anyone in your life, feel compassion for the parents of children with psychopathy. I have spent many hours...
The Psychopathy Blog
School Shootings, Mental Health Treatment, and Parents: Asking the Right Question
By Jen Griffis - Several years ago, I sat in the passenger seat on a chilly winter evening, my phone screen glowing in my hand as we headed to the treatment center. Our child had been displaying increasingly dangerous behaviors at home and - after a long struggle trying to convince professionals we needed help...
Borderline Personality Disorder and Psychopathy: What’s the Difference?
By Carrie Barron - What’s the difference between these two common and often-confused conditions? Borderline Personality Disorder is characterized by instability in identity, mood, and feelings of security. In the DSM 5, it is a Cluster B personality disorder, which captures disorders marked by dramatic or unpredictable behaviors.
Mass Review: A parent’s journey
Note: “Mass” premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters on Friday, October 8. You might be asking: Why is Psychopathy Is doing a movie review? Because that movie is Mass, and Mass is a conversation between two sets of parents: the parents of a child who was killed, and the parents of the child who killed him. As a mother who parented a child with psychopathy, I wanted to know how Mass would reflect the experience of parents whose children hurt people.
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