Getting into the mind of a psychopath

[Edwardo Piet]

Really? I didn't know that. I thought it was mainly genetic.

I know that how a psycopath turns out is hugely shaped by their upbringing.

Psychopathy is at least mostly genetic... sociopathy is mostly upbringing. Sociopaths are severely selfish and anti-social, almost or completely stunted empathy, very anxious and disturbed. Psychopaths are born with almost missing or completely missing empathy. They trouble others with their sick and abusive behavior but on the inside they are far from anxious or 'distrubed', it's others who are distrubed, they're severally pathologically sick and lacking in empathy but they're not irrational. It's all thrill-seeking to them:

While the term is often employed in common usage along with the related but distinct "crazy", "insane" and "mentally ill", criminal psychology researcher Robert Hare stresses that a clear distinction is known among clinicians and researchers between psychopathic and psychotic individuals. Hare claims that psychopaths "are not disoriented or out of touch with reality, nor do they experience the delusions, hallucinations, or intense subjective distress that characterize most other mental disorders. Unlike psychotic individuals, psychopaths are rational and aware of what they are doing and why. Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised.

(my emphasis)