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Maya PrattEnglish 1102Burnes RayApril 7, 2013IntroAttention GrabberBackground of ArticleIntroduce PsychopathyBackground of Bundy and filmIntroduce three main points (Lack of Remorse, Poor Behavior Controls, and Early Behavior Problems)Lack of Remorse How he treats his girlfriendThe shift from night to dayRationalizing behaviorPoor Behavior ControlsHighly reactive to insultsHow Hare describes the tantrumsScene of him and his girlfriend by the lakeEarly Behavior ProblemsExplain how childhood is the basis of personalityHare’s theory on broken homesDescribe Bundy’s childhoodScene with girl in woodsConclusionSummary of “This Charming Psychopath” By Robert HareIn Robert Hare’s 1994 article, This Charming Psychopath, in Psychology Today, outlines the symptoms of psychopaths and the system that he developed by interviewing criminals in prison. For twenty five years, Hare searched for answers to this mystery to develop an accurate means of detecting the psychopaths among us. He began in the 1960’s at the psychology department at the University of British Columbia. He gathered a team of clinicians to help identify psychopaths in prisons by long, detailed interviews and case study. After these interviews they developed a tool that is used now worldwide to that generated a highly detailed profile of a psychopath. They named this tool the Psychopathy Checklist.The checklist is divided between emotional and social deviances. These deviances are the key traits in psychopaths but all psychopaths don’t exhibit all of them and just because some people may exhibit them doesn’t mean they are psychopaths. Emotional deviances include glib and superficial, egocentric and grandiose, lack of remorse or?guilt, lack of?empathy, deceitful and manipulative, and shallow emotions. The social deviances include impulsive, poor behavior controls, need for excitement, lack of responsibility, early behavior problems, and adult antisocial behavior.Hare cautions that the checklist is not the only thing used to diagnose the disorder because the merges from a complex and misunderstood interplay between biological factors and social forces. The evidence that genetic factors contribute to the biological bases of?brain?function and to basic?personality?structure are the basis of the disorder. This in turn influences the way an individual responds to, and interacts with life experiences and their social environment. So therefore Hare concludes that the core elements needed for psychopathy like the inability to experience?empathy?and the complete range of emotions, including fear are produced by nature and possibly by some unknown biological influences.The Charming PsychopathThe scariest thing about a monster is not realizing it’s a monster before its too late. The human like characteristics they display, somewhat distract us from the signs of monstrosity right in front of us. This is because of the psychological disorders they all have. Most psychological disorders give the monster spurts of reality in between their dark twisted thoughts. And these spurts are the ones we see that make us relate to the human in them. This allowed Ted Bundy to live comfortably as a psychopath for quite some time. Bundy was charming and seemingly very motivated. He was the “Charming Psychopath”. He exhibited his charm quite often but also often left his closest friends confused by his impulsive actions and short temper. According to Robert Hare’s 1994 article in Psychology Today, this wasn’t uncommon for a psychopath to weave in to society and be someone you would least expect to have such a disorder. Robert Hare divides the symptoms of psychopaths between emotional and social deviance and then describes characteristics of psychopaths, including lack of remorse, poor behavior controls, and early behavior problems. And Bundy displayed all of these in reality, as well as in the 2002 film on his reign of terror in 1974. Bundy lived during the day as a law student and at night lived as a predator on the streets raping and slaughtering young women. But even before this, the signs were very visible. Bundy had an outright lack of remorse. When the killing began to increase his need for excitement, another trait of a psychopath, he began losing even more remorse because he felt that it was a need. In a scene with his girlfriend after the first killing he showed that he wanted to change his ways and no longer kill. But as his psychopathic ways took over his showed no remorse towards the way he treated his own girlfriend. He began asking his girlfriend to do the same things that he did to his victims and never once cared about how she felt. She would constantly protest the sexual acts but Bundy carried on, never apologizing. And as he grew less and less remorseful and guilty, he no longer felt the need to cover his guilt in the comfort of the night. He had no problem killing women in broad daylight or mocking them as they screamed and begged him to spare their lives. With this bold, unmerciful attitude it wasn’t long until he was caught for good . And in the scene of the day right before he was sent to the electric chair, he denies that he even killed anybody. Hare, however, says that their lack of remorse or guilt is associated with a remarkable ability to rationalize their behavior. So it wasn’t uncommon that Bundy denies it all after showing that he didn’t “care” at all about the acts that he committed. Another major symptom of a psychopath, are their poor behavior controls. Psychopaths are highly reactive to insults. Hare says that most of us are equipped with inhibitory controls for our behavior allowing us to restrain ourselves from reacting impulsively, but psychopaths on the other hand are not. So most psychopaths are short-tempered and will respond to criticism with violence or verbal abuse, much like Ted. In the film, Ted’s girlfriend Lee, was highly critical of his school work and what he did in spare time, which most times, would send Ted into a fit. Like much of what Hare said in the article, Ted’s tantrums were short lived. In one scene, Lee criticizes Ted about trying to be a lady’s man and how he is trying to live up to something that he will never be and without even thinking, he quickly shoved her into the lake and stormed off. When confronted about the act, he brushed it off and said he was just playing because to him it was a normal, justified reaction to something like that. More than any other symptom in any psychological disorder, the relation to early behavior problems is the biggest red flag. Childhood is the base of all personalities and heavily affects what we become and what we do as we mature. Hare stated that it is found in children who have exhibited violence early on but more so in children raised in violent neighborhoods or in disrupted or abusive families, much like Bundy. Bundy was raised in a broken home in which he was raised by a single woman whom he believed to be his mother, to only find out that his “sister” was his birth mother. From then on, he viewed himself as a bastard, and did anything he could do to be normal. In the film he openly said and showed that this was one of his main motivating factors in being the monster that he was. In a murder scene in a wooded area, as he stood over the young woman, he said that he will be somebody not just a bastard and that killing her and feeling superior would make him do it. Sometimes being a monster is something that can’t be helped. When faced with a disorder like psychopathy it can consume your better judgment just like Ted. The monster is complex just like the disorder in which it has. Ted’s short temper, troubled childhood, and lack of remorse were something that he simply could not help. Those factors fueled the monstrous evolution, into the Charming Psychopath that is Ted Bundy.ReferencesHare, Robert. "This Charming Psychopath: How to Spot Social Predators before They Attack."?Psychology Today. Sussex Publisher, LLC., 01 Jan. 1994. Web. Mar.-Apr. 2013. <;. ................
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