The Hare PCL-R contains two parts, a semi-structured interview and a review of the subject's file records and history. During the evaluation, the clinician scores 20 items that measure central elements of the psychopathic character. The items cover the nature of the subject's interpersonal relationships; his or her affective or emotional involvement; responses to other people and to situations; evidence of social deviance; and lifestyle. The material thus covers two key aspects that help define the psychopath: selfish and unfeeling victimization of other people, and an unstable and antisocial lifestyle.

The twenty traits assessed by the PCL-R score are:

glib and superficial charm
grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self
need for stimulation
pathological lying
cunning and manipulativeness
lack of remorse or guilt
shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness)
callousness and lack of empathy
parasitic lifestyle
poor behavioral controls
sexual promiscuity
early behavior problems
lack of realistic long-term goals
impulsivity
irresponsibility
failure to accept responsibility for own actions
many short-term marital relationships
juvenile delinquency
revocation of conditional release
criminal versatility


Read more: Hare Psychopathy Checklist - define, person, people, used, personality, score, traits, Definition, Purpose http://www.minddisorders.com/Flu-Inv/Hare-Psychopathy-Checklist.html#ixzz1lYCeu33Z

I suspect, I would only score in marital relationships (I have had two)


but I think I may have dated ('dated' not to be mistaken with 'slept with') persons who would score on most of the items,,,


I think Newt Gingrich is painted as someone who would score on multiple issues as well,,

Did you read the Ronson book? Food for thought. Oh, and as the Bard says "I think she doth protest too much" LOL

I just rembered another book, forgot the author. The psychopath next door. I think they are around 22% of the population

Yah my psychology class was actually prety interesting. Things such as ink blot tests (they actually use those), and things called archetypes that are images retained in the subconscience that influence emotions that reveal clues to things humans went through before we kept documentation on it. The freud therapy that involves having the patient talk about things while a therapist listens (could take years), and is based on mental strucures called id, ego and super-ego (I want to say psycho-therapy but that is not exactly right). Anyways they said that one of freud's patients had a fear of knives and that it was anger turned inside out into fear. It made a little bit of sense when you read.

Rorschach test is the ink blots; archetypes are from Jungian theory, Freudian therapy is called psycho-analysis.

Psycho - Analysis that is right and yeah I do think it was Carl Jung who theororized that..and yeah their are a lot of interesting things such as on certain types of objects projection is used when the patient makes up a story about a photo (the photo hads to be a certain way) things like that. That actually works too becuase when I made up a story it was very much me.

no, I actually have alot of cynicism about the field of 'psychology',

but Im bored and it was , as I said, interesting reading,,,

You should read about the methods they use for therapy and why they work. Very strange things like latent objects and how the mind uses them. Very hard to understand but seems to be accurate. Like I said above the story about a picture and projecting myself into it was almost dead on 100% correct about things i think about daily.

I am both shocked and appalled!!!! There is a lot of complete BS there. However, there are many evidence based practices.

I am both shocked and appalled!!!! There is a lot of complete BS there. However, there are many evidence based practices.