Passive Parasitic Psychopathy: Toward the Personality Structure and Psychogenesis of Idiopathic Psychopathy (Anethopathy)

(Continued from January issue)

1. Emotional Life: 1—Emotional Organization. 2—Lack of Conditioned Affection. 3—Absence of CEdipus Reaction. 4—Lack of Guilt. 5—Glimmerings of Conscience. 6—Absence of Mechanisms.

2. Intellectual Life: 1—Mental Organization. 2—Phantasy Life. 3—Watch Hobby. 4—Insight.

3. Sex Life: 1—Peculiarities of Sex Life. 2—Excessiveness.

4. Personality Make-Up: 1—Infantilism. 2—Character Weakness. 3—Lack of Restraint. 4—Socialization.

5. Heredity, Environment, Constitution.

6. Psychopathy (Anethopathy): A Specific Mental Disease. Finale.

Summary and Conclusions.

Only a little reflection is necessary to realize that we are not dealing here with a case of psychosis or neurosis. One of this man's central characteristics is his crude selfishness and his utter lack of sympathetic emotion. Now, however selfish or egoistic neurotics or psychotics may be, there is always someone in the environment to whom they are tenderly bound. Indeed, excess of tender emotions is their most striking characteristic; it overflows all the channels of their personality, at the expense of the rational and normal. But that is certainly not the case with the individual presented here.

There is little doubt that we are here concerned with a psychopathic personality. The only question which engages our attention is: What particular type or variety of psychopathic personality does this patient represent?