PSYCHOPATHIC PERSONALITY AND DISTORTIONS OF AFFECTIVITY
Abstract:
The dimensional approach to personality allows for a broader understanding of the
particular distortions of affectivity in the psychopathic personality. This can only be described in the
context of the diversity and ideological and axiological anarchy characteristic of contemporary
society in biologically vulnerable subjects. The empathic capacity of the psychopathic personality –
viewed from the perspective of its two components, one cognitive and one affective – allows the
understanding of the discrepancy between the ability to anticipate the needs and expectation of others
in the form of “empathy” used strictly for manipulative purposes
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