James Fallon, PhD: The Psychopath Inside

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The reason he skips around . . 1/2 psychopath and 1/2 Italian, us italians do this at the dinner table. JF your awesome

Excellent clarification of a very complex and conflicted psychological situation for everyone. This is courageous but not really for the speaker, who is giving an outstanding presentation of effective Scientific Methodology, studies and research. Thank you.

Its so funny to me that he had fights with his colleague about what does actually empathy means haha.
Hes a psychopath he cant understand it lol

Can't we say it's a step in human evolution? They are better in alot of things and yes they don't play with rules of bad or good but, this is told by religion. What is the difference between some religion tell you the lie you will life for ever after your death or a psychopath that abuse that most people are complete idiots for his own gain? Or do we forget about the wealth, witch hunts and crusades and only pick out the people that do the same in singular form?

This is some amazing information especially at the end. I want to know more. Thank you Dr. Fallon.

As a psp myself it would be nice to meet this guy.

I can't watch this.

I think the reason evolution has sustained the psychopathic brain is for military and hunting reasons. I would die if I had to hunt. I am emphatic to a point where it would bother me to see an animal suffering. But a person like James could actually hunt and fight another tribe with no remorse. Its that simple. The brain had to be this way to kill animals and fight for their families. I think its also no surprise that a poor, violent upbringing with this type of brain would create a killer.

I don't trust this guy. But fascinating talk.

Same as always, your greatest hope is a parent or parents who would give you proper nurture and love in your childhood. If you're psychopath, the emphasis or it goes 100x more important. It's not a 100% fool proof, but without it, a psychopath does not stand a chance.

Psychopaths are the cause of 95% if the world's misery.

He is right about people in Norway, don`t like to talk so much about mental health or disorders.

I haven't even watched it and I know it's bullshit. >90% of all psychopaths are non-violent in a physical sense, although they do try and mentally dominate/abuse people. I question whether this person is an actual psychologist.

I can't tell if he is making a psychopath look good or psychopaths are making him look bad. Either way, I know firsthand from having married one, but it is not a pretty picture and he has to be uncomfortable on the inside on some level

Wonderful speaker.

Thank you very much. Many things you have disclosed are similar to what I believe. Psychopathy is much more complex than how we often hear about it. It was reassuring to hear you speak on this topic and glad to hear about possible directions for improvement in the lives of humans.

I'm not convinced he's a psychopath, or even a borderline one. I think he has traits, he's impulsive, hyper, extroverted, and self-focused, but not the personality disorder.

I actually got a couple of questions that I found during the talk:

1) It seems that there are a focus on the limbic system, so if you have a"psychopathic deficiency" in the limbic system, how would you, knowing that the nerve-system have plactitcy, train or affect that in a more "non-psycopatic" direction? Are there specific drugs that can be used? Context based behavioral theraphies ?

2) Knowing the facts found by research, is it then posible to screen for genetic and family historic markers, to identify and influence say: very young kids in a direction where they have less change of developing full psycopathy from a more focused nurturing perspective. Do's and don'ts in kindergarden, schools, and other social settings.


3) Again plasticity of the brain: In what degree can a person, due to a bad environment and things that happens in life, go from a "non-psycopatic" behavioral pattern to a more "psycophatic", and are there any data on the social setting "creating" psycopathy?

I think most people who do things and are successful have psychopathic traits

It’s like there are extremes on the end of a spectrum ~ psychopaths and highly sensitive empaths. Early trauma and lack of a nourishing childhood can damage people on either side of that range with differing results...

I’m a clinical psychologist I diagnose dozens of psychopaths and narcissistic people every day. This man is knowledgeable on himself and is a model psychopath.

This guy is such a liar and a bad one at that. He’s been trying to convince people he’s a functioning narcissistic psycho for so long; any good journalist can easily poke holes at his marketing ploy

It's funny, we now know what he and his wife saw in each other better than they did.

This guy is full of shit lol, hes probably closer to a narsasitic personality disorder. Hes not psychopath not even close. Im fairly apothetic I know that, I dont care about justice, just dont bother me. This dude isnt even in the same league as the people he compairs himself to.

Neuroscientist Dr. Kent Kiehl says Dr. Fallon is not a Psychopath.

I wish I could be like this .You cant get hurt

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What is the name of his Book ?? plz 🤔

Oops! Ever heard of past life recall? Kinda messes up the idea that genetic expression has the most to do with personality. Supports, by the way, the "not tabula rasa" finding. Talk about not being a blank slate! How about millions of years of suppressed (sub-conscious) experience?

I think I learned pretty early on that they don’t arrest you for being crazy they arrest you for acting crazy. So I can walk around undercover for a long time.

Lol this dude 😂 hes the same as an edgy 14 year old, true psychos don't even acknowledge it, much less talk about it 24/7. Hes just a narcissist that wants to feel special

Good looking lol yeah okay

Self-diagnosed as a psychopath based on some hack-metrics collectively invented in less than the space of a century. It's a nice story but smacks of disingenuous bollocks designed to make a name for himself beyond staple scientist. USA is riddled with people assigning mental maladies to attributes that are, wait for it, HUMAN!!!. It's a cynical industrial scale con, as is most corporate enterprise there. The Scanidnavians are smart enough to see through it. It's empiricism gone past any point of usefulness. 'Oh but he's a neuroscientist, so it must be legit!'. Because the powers that grant the label of 'expert' said so, in a field that is only at the very very beginning of its endeavour to understand consciousness & biology.

You cant have OCD and be a psychopath ! OCD patients have overeactive amygdalas also OCD is an anxiety disorder wtf is he talking about? Psychopaths are in the complete opposite spectrum and have low anxiety and their amygdala is far away from sensitive thats why they dont react to fear etc etc ! What the fuck is he talking about? This guy is lying ! Also in the begining he says i got OCD i wanted to be perfect when in fact thats not fucking OCD most perfectionists fall under the OCPD umbrella that is completly different from OCD ! This guy is a narcissist probably and a lier

I wonder how is a combination of a strong conscience and empathy (neither of which psychopath have) and strong tendency for violence called? Is that even a thing in some handbook.
What I mean, I'm not normally aggressive, yet might turn to "take no prisoners!' kind of rage instantly, when encountering a threat to me or people close to me.
Also got pretty strong beliefs in justice and wrong and right, so I used to joke, in than past i might have become an inquisitor, to which lady I know once joked, would I burn her as a witch then? To which I answered: "I might be insanely cruel, yet I'm not a sadist, so I'd cut your throat first, and only then light up the fires." She has never joked about that since, wonder why.

Make no mistake, people! He's no angel, lol. He has a great sense of humour, but if his wife was not surprised at the revelation of him being a psychopath and compared him to fictional psychos, it's because it can't have been too easy or funny for her on her side.

Grieving biochemically resets the Shame 'mechanism'. It is time that society provides a context in which the Psychopath can grieve. And it doesn't need to be a consensual and willful act.

Excellent, informative & enjoyable talk!
Early childhood development has been known to be critically important to the rest of a person’s life. Babies are programmed with the equivalent to DOS, in that time. 
If a baby’s “DOS” system is corrupted (by abuse, neglect, malnutrition, etc. vs. nurtured, encourage, & taught solid useful things) during the 1st 3 to 5 years, & depending on how much good & bad things influence their DOS, it has better or worse foundations to build the rest of their lives on.
So….he’s just now discovering this? He’s old enough to have been around as an adult when Erickson launched his thesis about it.
But, it doesn’t help industries, & society, systems & officials have chronically ignored this, because, if they counted this factor, they couldn’t justify the budget cuts done that killed programs that help stop the problem. 
Like, the programs in Britain, & the US, that had a licensed nurse go to the home of a newborn, weekly for some months, then reducing to twice a month, then down to monthly until the child reaches about age 5 to 7. If another baby joins the family, the visits revert to weekly, etc. It supported the whole family, not just the children.
What supports a family, influences how well that family makes their way in the world.
The collateral effects were pervasive & significant…talking large, countable, cost savings, because the programs remediate & reduced abuse, neglect, frustration, dysfunctional behaviors.
The officials who cancelled the programs “because they cost too much”, had failed to wait to see the effects & savings the programs caused.
But this guy has helped substantiate it far better, by including the epigenetic factor, & the scans.

Wow! Hope for remedy on an epigenetic level..?!!🧐 Stellar!

Lots of errors. Transposons are not retroviruses. I don't know what is the data for transposons reaching the egg from sperm...Mosaicism from multiple fathers ???? Caution warranted with this guy

The neuroscience is so oversimplified it is hard to relate to what he is saying other than the fact that the environment plays a huge part of the result of the kind of adult we become! So what's new! He overdramatizes the connection between having a risk-prone temperament, having been spoiled, and being a psychopath. You could say jerk or bombastic or overly self-centered, self-involved human being, but so was Picasso. Just because your amygdala does not light up in an fMRI does not mean it is not engaged as the threshold for detection by that device requires high levels of engagement. And then there is the PFC which can dampen the amygdala; all work by LeDoux that is well established. What idiot-psychiatrists thought it was a good idea to tell this narcissist that he is some borderline psychopath to give him a platform in his old age for talking and talking and talking about himself? What this tells you is that it is post-genetic expression that matters a great deal more in terms of the encoded operational strategies that an individual engages in order to obtain optimal outcomes which are rewarded and that those innate influences get tuned by one's experience!

Fabulous talk, thank you, gives me hope. Bless you.

Stop trying to normalize psychopaths just because you are one. CEOs and fund managers who only care about money are ruthless and not to be celebrated.

I have a suggestion. Slow down. You speak too fast.

This is my husband to a tee… non violent psychopath with all the epigenetic adversity from childhood, a horrendous childhood, a psychopathic severely emotionally disordered alcoholic mother. He’s an alcoholic and diagnosed bipolar. The first time I experienced real empathy from him was when he was taking antipsychotics…. It was brief… but it was there. It’s gone now, and he mostly tries to get through life by. being a pretender. He often just asks me what specific things I need him to do or act like so I’m ‘happy’…. But, I am already happy in my own self/ life…. It’s that he cannot emotionally love or emote… I simply keep asking for emotional love, and he’s bewildered. He shows absolutely no genuine care or concern for me or the kids on an emotional level. Hes at the top in the car industry and highly manipulative. He’s done some of the most evil vengeful things to me based solely on an assumption he had, no facts. He is jeckyl and hyde. And hyde is terrifying…. But…. He’s not physically violent…. Though his cunningness and charm allows him to gain pity and sympathy anywhere he goes, and he escapes nearly all consequences of his transgressions. He lacks all emotional depth, and is a master at knowing the right time/ things to say to get what he wants. He presents himself as a meek, ‘nice’, passive and very quiet man… or he talks very quietly… to evoke that he is gentle…. But… he is absolutely not gentle. My daughter and I live in an emotional straightjacket in our home because our emotions send him into rage and punishment. He has no ability to see our emotions with curiosity or care. On the flip side he is the most emotionally unstable, mentally unstable person I’ve ever met, despite his veneer of stability which he achieves using a strong ability to suppress emoting all negative emotions. He sees this as superior. I see it all as… well…. Psycho.

Read ‘psychopath free’ if you have a loved one who seems a lot like the man in the video…. It will help you a lot.

The very end of the speech, about ways to reverse psychopathy, is so interesting, and I wish I could hear more about that.

Is this what they mean when they say psychopaths are extremely charming?

Listening to him, hes very likeable and his humour puts you at ease. The atmosphere is inviting. I would never be on guard talking to / confiding in him if I didn't know about his diagnosis.

Its very jarring to hear him casually mention his daughter saying hes a narcissist, his wife saying hes a character in Silence of the Lamb, his family thinking the diagnosis "makes sense" and him being absolutely oblivious.

I dont trust this guy at all