A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

Abstract

By metaphorically entitling the text „A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing“, the author discusses a psychological profile of a psychopath. The text begins by offering the relevant definition and by defining and differentiating, in layman's terms, the following: psychopath, sociopath, and antisocial personality disorder (so as to clear up any confusion about these terms). A psychopath, as the author explains, is a predator with the characteristics such as: callousness, narcissism, mercilessness, shallow emotions, egocentricity, manipulativeness, the ability to camouflage or infiltrate, lack of conscience and soul, etc. Finally, the author of this text offers a psychopathy checklist whose author is Robert D. Hare and which includes characteristics such as: glibness and superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, the need for stimulation or the proneness for boredom, pathological lying, conning and manipulation, lack of remorse or the feeling of guilt, shallow affect and lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, poor behaviour control, promiscuous sexual behaviour, early behaviour problems, lack of realistic, long-term goals, impulsivity, irresponsibility, failure to accept responsibility for own actions, many shortterm marital relationships, juvenile delinquency, revocation of conditional release, criminal versatility.