Empathy training

[Unidalaraza at aol.com]

Has it (is more than an it than a he at this point) been given the PCL-R and 
how did he score. While psychopaths can learn how to appear empathic (e.g., 
watching television and the movies to see how empathic characters act), you 
cannot teach psychopaths empathy. Treatment of them is all the rage now- there is 
a difference in teaching how to cope as opposed to effect healing- but if they 
get out of adolescents forget treatment. I studied with Robert Hare in 
October and he had with him the brain scans on the research coming out of Brazil 
where there is more access to inmates, the process that should create empathy 
takes place in a different part of the psychopaths brain. Psychopaths do not have 
language facilitators (i.e., emotional connotation that a word carries like 
cancer or rape). Sorry psychodrama is not Lacanian psychoanalysis and a true 
psychopath will eat a psycho dramatist for lunch. John Matteson
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