Sound like someone you know? Well, heads up. They’re master manipulators of other peoples’ feelings, but are unable to experience emotions themselves. Or they may manipulate someone else into breaking the law, while keeping themselves safely at a distance.
These are known as “successful” psychopaths, as they have a tendency to perform premeditated crimes with calculated risk. Sometimes as the most successful people in society because they’re often ruthless, callous and superficially charming, while having little or no regard for the feelings or needs of others.
Most of us, fortunately, will never meet a Hannibal Lecter, but psychopaths and sociopaths certainly do exist. In making these characters famous, popular culture has also burned the words used to describe them into our collective consciousness. Think Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs (1991), Norman Bates in Psycho (1960) and Annie Wilkes in Misery (1990). Psychopath and sociopath are popular psychology terms to describe violent monsters born of our worst nightmares.
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