Can Psychopath Be Cured

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Synthesizing: The Psychopath and Can Psychopath Be Cured “To the best of our knowledge, there is no cure for psychopathy. No pill can instill empathy, no vaccine can prevent murder in cold blood, and no amount talk therapy can change an uncaring mind (article; page 1)”. It’s hard to cure a psychopath, the way you grew up can have an effect on that and the way you were born. You can bring a psychopath to a therapy session everyday, and a psychopath wouldn't be able to act normal. For all intents and purposes, Psychopaths are lost to the normal social world. But this didn’t stop all scientist and journalist to stop researching about psychopaths. For example in the book; The Psychopath Test from Jon Ronson. Ronson was given a task to find who …show more content…

Being called a psychopath is harsh because of how the society will react or people don’t want to believe they are psychopaths. For example in the article “The Neuroscientist Who Discovered he was a Psychopath”, James had said “Many of us would hide this discovery and never tell a soul, out of fear or embarrassment of being labeled a psychopath”. In the book The Psychopath Test, when Ronson was doing a interview on page 5 he was scared for being sued because he called a man a psychopath. Ronson and Fallon both agreed that being called a psychopath is a big thing because if you were to be called a psychopath, the society will look at you weird. I think that the society now is very judgemental about how people dress or how people act. What I think about being called a psychopath is a big thing because some people don’t really know what happened during their childhood. On the other hand I would rather be called a psychopath than crazy because in my mind, I think psychopath had so many meaning and it's a bigger word. Rather than crazy, it just means one …show more content…

In the Article, it talk about how the “fact that a person with the genes and brain of a psychopath could end up a non-violent, stable and successful scientist made Fallon reconsider the ambiguity of the term (article; page 1)”. In the book, Ronson talked about Tony. The book explained how Tony was at going to a bar and saw a homeless guy. He decided to kick and beat up the guy but didn’t plan to kill him. Not all people that are called a psychopath is a murder because there are many psychopaths out there; one of them is born naturally with that disorder and the other one is someone that did something harsh or committed a

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