Analyzing Tweets To Identify Psychopaths 266
nonprofiteer writes "Researchers presenting at Defcon next week have developed a psychopathy prediction model for Twitter. It analyzes linguistic tells to rate users' levels of narcissism, machiavellianism and other similarities to Patrick Bateman. 'The FBI could use this to flag potential wrongdoers, but I think it's much more compelling for psychologists to use to understand large communities of people,' says Chris Sumner of the Online Privacy Foundation. Some of the Twitter clues: Curse words. Angry responses to other people, including swearing and use of the word "hate." Using the word "we." Using periods. Using filler words such as 'blah' and 'I mean' and 'um.' So, um, yeah."
There's a rumor going around (Score:4, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
This article is absolutely ridiculous and I pray it is shot down my mainstream psychologists because it's not fair at all. I am a law-abiding citizen who works a full-time job and spends much of my downtime educating myself and hanging out with friends. I have hobbies, I have a beautiful family, and I am a very good person. Many of the things in this article have applied to me throughout my life and I am disgusted that they would even begin their psychopath search in this manner.
Fucking incredible.
Re: (Score:2)
Having regrets over all of those nasty and violent tweets, are you? Should've thought about what might happen if you babbled about listening to those voices, and where to get that ammo online.
Time to get back into therapy now, and start taking those meds that you've eschewed all this time.
Or they'll nail your ass. Is that them knocking at the door? Did you hide everything?
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, the real insight is Reverse Phrenology! Kicking people in the head to make them better people!
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3)
Well, the test of something's value shouldn't be whether it strikes you as silly.
The difference between this and phrenology is that phrenology is based on a fundamentally flawed assumption: that the external shape of the skull is correlated strongly to the size of medium scale anatomical structures of the brain. It's easy enough to debunk phrenology by looking at few skulls and comparing the interior to the exterior. In contrast it's quite plausible that a personality trait would be *correlated* in some way
Re: (Score:3)
"Well, the test of something's value shouldn't be whether it strikes you as silly."
Yes, it should. Truly silly things are quite valuable.
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:5, Insightful)
The end result of this research is rather clear: Watch what you say on the internet, the FBI might flag you. And that's a far more dangerous threat than a few psychopaths walking around. If you look at the biggest mass murders in human history, every single one of them was a government official. Think about that for a while.
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:5, Insightful)
That's actually not the failure that makes this useless. The failure is that the dangerous psychos are such a small minority of the population that even if you throw away 99% (and I'm being generous) of the relatively normals, you're still left with a huge pool of normals with just a few pschos in it. You've not made the problem of actually finding the psychos significantly easier. Now 99.99% of the people who seem suspicious are dangerous rather than 99.9999%.
This is exactly the same flaw as the face scanner tech they were proposing at airports which Bruce Schneier et al. ripped to pieces when it was first proposed.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Now 99.99% of the people who seem suspicious are dangerous rather than 99.9999%.
If the suspect pool is the general public, then cutting it down by 99% still leaves way too many people. But what if the suspect pool is much smaller? What if there is a serial rapist in a town of 5000? You can use this test to cut the suspect pool down to 50. Of those 50, 20 are female, another 15 have solid alibis, 10 don't fit the description. Of the remaining five, three agree to voluntary DNA testing to eliminate themselves from the suspect list. Does this mean that one of the remaining two did i
Re: (Score:3)
If you look at the biggest mass murders in human history, every single one of them was a government official. Think about that for a while.
That doesn't mean they weren't psychopaths, does it?
Re: (Score:3)
It also conflates correlation with causation. The supposed fact that they were government officials could be the result, not the cause - psychopaths are likely to be attracted to positions where they can wield power, whether in social, tribal, corporate or government environment is just a matter of convenience and availability. Also, it's hard to say whether Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great would rightly described as 'government officials'. Or a large number of ancient Roman Caesars - as often as not
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:4, Insightful)
Most psychopaths are not dangerous, the desire for a so called pseudo-science of trying to cure something obviously not broken is odd. Just like most people have some type of phobia, have narcissistic tendencies, some type of rational paranoia, etc... We don't run around trying to make magic bullets trying to fix it all for several reasons.
First, most of those traits are healthy and responses to the environment. Second, most people do not experience those tendencies for extended durations of time. If the environment is messed up, so are the people.. it's called a coping mechanism. Trying to fix the "problem" without really fixing the problem is something us humans have an extremely poor habit of doing, and the results are often much worse than working on the root cause (environment, education, social influences, etc...)
Instead of trying to fix symptoms, we should be trying to fix the problems...
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:5, Interesting)
Could a certain percentage of people who commit violent crime share the common trait of psychopathy? Certainly. Do all?
Right. There are psychopaths who are perfectly fine and functional members of society. People often regard them as 'a bit off', but there is more to the psychology of a dangerous psychopath than just being a psychopath.
Check out this BBC Documentary [youtube.com] about the neuropsychology of it. The documentary turns out more interesting than would be initially expected (not going to give it away).
That said, when designer babies are feasible, I doubt anybody is going to consciously select for psychopathy. Well, outside of the dystopian scifi realms anyway.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Most psychopaths are simply called "Boss."
Re: (Score:2)
Pick your poison.
Re: (Score:2)
Do all? No. In fact, a rather large percentage of the population are psychopathic, yet lead normal, non-violent lives.
Figuring out who is a psychopath would probably have usefulness outside of just finding criminals. Probably don't want to hire a psychopath or marry one.
Re: (Score:2)
Just what we needed: yet more ways to be judged and ostracized through no fault of your own.
Re: (Score:3)
This also represents basically a new class of monitoring, that of continual monitoring of ALL human action by AI's (since that's basically what this is, being watched by an AI). It takes society to a whole new "Welcome to the Panopticon" level.
Algorithmic monitoring will soon be behind all mass-surveillance, e.g. automatically scanning every CCTV image to see if what you're actually doing might be considered 'suspicious' (e.g. looked at a young girl for just a few seconds too long? look 'fidgety'? look 'ang
Re: (Score:2)
And every single one of those government officials was a psychopath, or sociopath, or similar. Maybe if we were better at recognizing the symptoms, they could have been helped when they were young, instead of letting their disease fester.
Re: (Score:2)
So, if you're using model that contains an algorithm which attempts to measure a personality trait like narcicism, which has no defined metric in psychiatry
Umm, it appears to me that such a metric definition would result from research, possibly including (not solely, but additionally) this work.
Of course, IMHO the DSM-type definitions of behavior and psychological syndromes is based on a very problematical fundamental model. Psychology is presently still laboring in a paradigm similar to chemistry or biology in the 18th century - descriptive but not structural. If we look at plants or animals, for example, to some extent we can track both the genetics and th
Re: (Score:3)
No it doesn't. There's no follow up going on to match the words to people's subsequent actions. And please, the use of periods? What does that indicate? Grammar? How about my immediate excessive use of the question mark?
"(content of their character)."
Even further horseshit. There's no correlation betwixt grammar and character.
Asimov had it wrong, there is no such math.
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:5, Funny)
I've been using a lot of voice recognition to IM lately.
SO I called someone and got voice mail.. and I said...
"Okay, I got your call and I'll see you later today PERIOD".
I was face slapping as soon as i hung up.
Oh and for the benefit of NSA and twitter type scanners...
I don't know what this shit is. Fuck that. I HATE it when they scan my posts. Period.
I mean blah blah blah, yada, yada. I mean, I don't give a flying fuck, um, what they think.
Thanks--- I was, ah, feeling psychopathic, and um, didn't want to put that in a separate post.
Re: (Score:2)
Even further horseshit. There's no correlation betwixt grammar and character.
A normal (non-narcissistic) person is aware that there are things known to others that are not known to him.
Re: (Score:2)
A normal (non-narcissistic) person also demands pretty extraordinary proof before letting people be put on FBI databases because they used a period in a Twitter post. In fact, a non-narcissistic person might object to such practices even in the presence of definitive evidence that this is a sign of psychopathy, seeing how another poster [slashdot.org] already speculated on making this list public so you could be ke
Re:There's a rumor going around (Score:5, Insightful)
But how many people have an online persona that is vastly different than they're real life one? I have friends that act like they're Che Guevara on their social media postings that, in real life, will bitch and cry and complain for an hour if the person at Starbucks takes too long to prepare their non-fat mochaccinolatte, and don't even get me started on all the people that bitch and complain about "freeloaders" and "people living on the government teat" that I know for a fact are collecting government services themselves or have benefited from them in the past....that's another particularly LOL-worthy demographic these days. And then, of course, there's the "I'm ME and I don't care if anyone likes my opinions or not!" posts I used to see all the time, written by people that are, without a hint of irony, obviously searching for positive reinforcement from their social group.
The number of people I know that are actually 'themselves' on the internet, and not some idealized version of themselves that they invented to be popular, is quite slim. I don't bother with social media anymore because I got tired of dealing with cartoon characters and hypocrites. If people actually had to be themselves on the internet, warts and all, I bet the number of social media junkies out there would plummet overnight...
For those reasons, I fail to see the value in this...
Re: (Score:3)
But how many people have an online persona that is vastly different than they're real life one? I have friends that act like they're Che Guevara on their social media postings that, in real life, will bitch and cry and complain for an hour if the person at Starbucks takes too long to prepare their non-fat mochaccinolatte
But that's pretty much how Che Guevara did act in real life. The guy was a pampered rich kid who, when he couldn't hack it as a doctor, decided to play soldier. After a string of pitiful failures, he tried to prove how tough he was to his men by personally executing bound prisoners, or shooting his men in the back when they tried to get away.
and don't even get me started on all the people that bitch and complain about "freeloaders" and "people living on the government teat" that I know for a fact are collecting government services themselves or have benefited from them in the past..
We know that the IRS tracks donations to the treasury and there are virtually none. Therefore, people who want higher taxes don't actually donate to the treasury, they
Re: (Score:2)
I am an ant in both real and virtual lives. :P
Re: (Score:3)
people that bitch and complain about "freeloaders" and "people living on the government teat" that I know for a fact are collecting government services themselves or have benefited from them in the past
The more money you take from a thief, the better libertarian you are. The fact that libertarians even realize that taxation is theft puts them miles ahead of anyone on the left or the right. The only way they would actually be hypocrites is if they had an opportunity to abolish the state and refused to do so. I recommend that libertarians put as much burden on the state as legally possible in order to speed things up. Take every dime you can from a thief.
Re: (Score:3)
There's a better answer to that: those things have good effects (people can use them) and bad effects (money is taken from people so other people can use them) and you oppose them because you think the bad outweighs the good. You can't really "choose not to take them" because you can only choose not to take the good effects, but you can't choose not to take the bad effects. Refusing to take a college grant isn't going to get you a life without taxes that go to college grants.
Like the example goes, if the
Re: (Score:3)
To my mind that's just putting pragmatism as a philosophy or value system ahead of libertarianism. :)
Of course, real life does intrude on every philosophy, making it impossible to behave purely with regard to the philosophy. For example, as I understand it, the Jains (used to?) believe that killing even the smallest bacterium is bad, and make great efforts to avoid killing anything. When bacteria were discovered the most extreme believers began wearing masks so as to avoid inhaling and inadvertently killi
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
my evil plans are too complex to fit in 140 characters. The lambs can be so very naive.
Re: (Score:2)
The governments who indulge in that sort of thing rarely speak of "victims", for that would encourage compassion and sympathy.
Using Periods? (Score:2, Insightful)
Bullshit. Using periods is simply properly using the English language. (And expletives have their proper place as well--although this one is more ironic than angry :) )
Re:Using Periods? (Score:5, Funny)
What are you, some sort of psychopath? Flag him!
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I agree, to me this points out the trivial nature of their 'research' - can I safely assume that a slavish insistence that all the words in your tweets be spelled properly is the hallmark of a feeble mind, and that truly intelligent users have mastered so-called TXT-speak?
Full stops (Score:2)
Using periods is simply properly using the English language.
Not quite, if you are properly using the English language (and not American) you can only use periods to identify female psychopaths.
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Using Periods? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Using Periods? (Score:4, Funny)
i think the lack Capitalization and lack of Proper punctuation may be more Useful in Finding people suffering from Various Mental Disorders on the other hand it may merely Indicate a shortcoming In the posters education isn,t it obvious that when some one fails to Use punctuation and Capitalization correctly that they are a Tragedy in Waiting clearly the fbi is Onto Something or at least they Think They Are it cant be simply a case of people Being too lazy to punctuate their sentences or find the fucking shift key many messages on twitter come from mobile devices where it can be pretty damned inconvenient to apply capitals and punctuation marks as compared to a proper keyboard
What you did: it's there, and I see it.
Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
Probably is bullshit. The twitter responses where compared to a survey. In other words they calibrated their instrument by simply asking people if they're a psychopath. Lets see, one of the most well known trait of psychopaths is their tendency to lie.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Lets see, one of the most well known trait of psychopaths is their tendency to lie.
Is that true ... or are you just a psychopath?
Re: (Score:2)
yes.
Re: (Score:2)
He's not a psychopath. He doesn't come to any of the meetings.
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Lets see, one of the most well known trait of psychopaths is their tendency to lie.
And that's why many of them become politicans.
Don't dare to mod this as funny.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
Yes. If somebody uses Twitter, he can’t be right in his head in the first place. ^^
(There are only two types of "people" that use Twitter: 40+ midlife-crisis people who want to be "cool" again, and marketing companies posing as celebrities. No exceptions.)
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
"The ability to predict psychopaths in under 140 characters?"
***Psychopath test***
You think your crap is worth following? Check!
You follow the crap of strangers you have never seen? Check!
If one or more of the above are checked, congratulations, you're a Psychopath.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
The ability to predict psychopaths in under 140 characters? What have all these mental health professionals been doing? All these face-to-face interviews, "sessions" and observations. Maybe if they submitted their reports in only 140 characters they would have figured all this out a long time ago. /sarcasm
I have a crazy idea... Maybe they use multiple tweets? Mind blowing, I know, but 2 tweets add up to 280 characters! Maybe you could even use 3! Or even more?!
A longitudinal tweetment?
loudbot (Score:2)
oh dear, I wonder what would happen if they ran the model against loudbot - http://twitter.com/loudbot [twitter.com] -- it'd probably score off the charts
Analyzing myself (Score:5, Interesting)
> Curse words.
Hardly any, but mostly due to many years on a MUD with strict rules. Abusing "damn" and so on, though.
> Angry responses to other people
Hell yeah.
> including swearing and use of the word "hate."
Got a bigger vocabulary, but yeah.
> Using the word "we."
Check, to a big extent.
> Using periods.
You mean, so those with no punctuation are not morons but normal people? Blah. Check.
> Using filler words such as 'blah'
See above.
> and 'I mean'
Check.
>and 'um.'
"hrm", "hmm" and "ghrmblah" (see also two paragraphs above)
So, you mean, is there any hope for me?
Re:Analyzing myself (Score:5, Funny)
So, you mean, is there any hope for me?
Sure there is. First, you'll seek twitter therapy and twitter assimilation resistance resistance. If that succeeds your tweets will be indistinguishable from 99% of the population (and most of your followers will finally be able to understand them).
... though not much hope for society at large if we're making DSM-V quality diagnoses based on twitter (unless we're determining that those who use twitter really have too much time on their hands).
If your TT&TARR fails you'll have to go to twitter court (most trials are very short) or simply go to twitter confessions and throw yourself on the mercy of 12 randomly selected twitter addicts. Once you're sentenced to twitter prison (where all you say and read are tweets) you'll be able to start paying your debt to the twitterverse. When the time comes for your parole review they'll analyze your tweets during your sentence to determine if you're ready for early tweetlease or if you need to try harder.
So yes, there is hope for you
Re: (Score:2)
First, you'll seek twitter therapy and twitter assimilation resistance resistance.
No sane, or insane-but-ok person reads twitter already. Nullroute the blighters. I meant mailing lists and IRC. Twitter is hardly better than Fecesbook.
your tweets will be indistinguishable from 99% of the population
Since 99% of world's population doesn't use twitter, this is already done.
Re: (Score:2)
So, you mean, is there any hope for me?
Just don't use Twitter and you'll be fine. That's the biggest thing I got out of it.
Re: (Score:2)
So, you mean, is there any hope for me?
Did you have a happy childhood? If so, you'll probably be fine, even if you're a functional psychopath.
If you grew up in an abusive/broken home, you might want to go in for the PET scan and talk to a neuropsych doc about warning signs of impending trouble, especially if you have a bad life event happen.
If you've been through training to enhance psychopathic traits in normal people (e.g. military, politics, corporate ladder-climbing) you might also be at a higher risk.
Narcissism? (Score:3)
If Twitter users are anything like Facebook's, then if you're trying to use narcissism as a rating for psychopathic behavior you're gonna get a LOT of hits.
Re:Narcissism? (Score:4)
My awesome facebook profile is narcissism free. I only use facebook to show others me doing the awesome things I have done so they can comment in ways that make me feel good... but the band Carcass is good, just not interesting as me.
Um, yeah, right, so... every teenager in the world (Score:2)
will get flagged as a psychopath. Nice. What a stupid idea.
Re: (Score:2)
will get flagged as a psychopath. Nice. What a stupid idea.
Well it's about time, puberty is officially recognized as a mental illness.
Re: (Score:2)
will get flagged as a psychopath. Nice. What a stupid idea.
Well it's about time, puberty is officially recognized as a mental illness.
LOL. :-)
SEO guys will open a second business (Score:2)
"Are you afraid your tweets will trigger the FBI psychopath detection hot buttons? Are you afraid the Government jack booted thugs are going to knock down your door? Don't despair! Don't log off!! Tweet to your heart's content! Just subscribe to our UTR [*] service for just $9.99 a month and we will unobtrusively intervene and moderate your tweets! Your message will get through! FBI would not know. Subscribe now.
[*] UTR is the registered trademark of Under The Radar technologies, all rights reserved."
Now we won't be back to the square one. We would be back to the square negative 10. FBI is overloaded with the false positives. The real psychopaths are laughing at you too.
I Fucking Hate... (Score:3, Funny)
I fucking hate stupidity like this being passed off as "sciency". I mean, next up they'll claim to use palm scanners to determine my future actions. Blah! We need to vote these types of articles down. It's worthless shit!
I guess the only thing between me and a psychopath is that I don't use The Twitter.
Idiots!
So, basically, speaking English. (Score:4, Insightful)
Speaking English either formally or informally and either without emotion or with emotion. I have also heard that almost all of them breathed regularly and wore clothing. Those are relevant clues that might help recognize the next one early.
On the other hand, that they all owned assault weapons is purely a coincidence.
Re: (Score:2)
"On the other hand, that they [psychopaths] all owned assault weapons is purely a coincidence."
So I guess all the slashers, stranglers, people who drop someone off a building, hit them with a car, set little kids on fire, or cops that kill somebody they've arrested while the victim is in handcuffs and face-down, or leaders that convince an entire nation to commit mass genocide (after first disarming the populace) are all shining beacons of sanity.
Gramps, who owns and carries an AR-15 sport carbine on his large ranch in the S.W. needs to be institutionalized. Same for Yukon Bob living in the Alaskan w
Implying those qualities are illegal (Score:3)
So basically, they're implying that if you're narcissist or machiavellianist, which are both valid of traits of human nature, you should be arrested?
What a nice display of tolerance.
Re: (Score:2)
No, they're not implying anything of the sort. You just made up the part about getting arrested to feed your own victim complex.
What do you do with the data? (Score:2)
wow, so relevant (Score:2)
Now, I'm not going to read the article, because the poster decided to make a reference to a fictional character. Patrick Batman isn't a real person, and has no bearing on any kind of studies of any relevance to any subject that might be of any use to actual criminal studies except in some oblique, culturally related way. Could watching too many movies make you do stupid things, even kill people? Yeah, I'm 88% certain of it. Does knowing that make me a criminal psychologist? No, no it doesn't.
Thanks a lot, t
Phew! (Score:2)
Good thing I don't use Twitter then.
I think.
Um, yeah.
Why not expand the field a bit? (Score:2)
DrDave Dave Holden
@leon You are in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
Using Periods? (Score:2)
Do we want pre-crime? (Score:2)
Instead of the gun/anti-gun debate I think it would be more appropriate to talk about if we want to live in a surveillance state where our every action and word is scoured to see if we are a threat. I would prefer to have the police and courts concentrate on catching, prosecuting, and detaining people that have already committed a crime. The reason these types of crimes receive attention is because of how random and pointless they seem. But many more lives could be saved more cheaply if we would concentrat
1984 (Score:3)
We're boned (Score:2)
Well, um, I am. I mean, I fucking swear all the god damned time on Twitter. So, yeah, I also use periods (and other punctuation). I'll respond angrily to people... I hate this shit...
They never heard of Jon Ronson (Score:3)
"The Psychopath Test" author Jon Ronson pretty much makes the case that there isn't any test.
So, um, yeah. (Score:3)
So, um, yeah. Apparently we, erm, I mean I am a psychopath because of a few fucking words I like to say? blah. I hate articles like this.
Oh. Oops. (Score:2)
I don't use Twitter, but I'd be surprised if my slashdot post history wouldn't score me a cool 10 out of 10 the psycho chart :(
Not saying I'm not a psycho, either. Mainly just shrugging. The way I see it, people who go along, don't mind, and sleep tight are quite the monsters, too. As Erich Fried said, "don't doubt those who say the are scared, but be scared of those who say they have no doubts". Gimme the confused, the psychos, the angry, the frustrated -- at least they're salvageable. Because, to be sick
Bipolar people are not psychopaths (Score:3)
And they hate everything all the time, as a result of passive-aggressiveness during the depressive phases, or mere aggressiveness and grandiosity on the manic ones, or simply a tendency to hyperbolize their description of the world based on their own extreme feelings and disinhibition. They will also, of course, get into angry arguments.
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
As soon as they try to implement it in earnest it will end up being slapped down. Almost everyone I know on social media isn't acting as themselves, they're acting as the idealized version of themselves that they want other people to see.
They'll bring in some angry basement dweller chan-tard based on his online persona, and they'll quickly find that he's just a scared, immature little fuck-wit, and this will all go out the window. Either that, or some politician's son or daughter will set off a few trigge
Re: (Score:2)
The use of the period doesn't really surprise me. The biggest internet wankers absolutely relish in using perfect grammar; probably because it makes them feel superior to everybody else.
Re: (Score:3)
By these qualifications, every twelve year old is a psychopath. Also, seriously, using periods? You mean, as in proper fucking writing? What else, proper capitalization of sentences and pronouns?
Maybe "anal retentive" is a slippery slope toward "psychopathic".
Re: (Score:2)
By these qualifications, every twelve year old is a psychopath. Also, seriously, using periods? You mean, as in proper fucking writing? What else, proper capitalization of sentences and pronouns?
In my experience being twelve and hitting puberty won't exactly result in stable persona. It takes them a while to get used to the changes in their live.
Re: (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
Ron Paul’s “Audit The Fed” bill is a reminder of his tireless efforts to promote sound money and a more transparent Federal Reserve.
Now *that'* is indicative of a psychopath.
I especially note your use of rsquo, ldquo, and rdquo, and the absence of lsquo. We'll send *two* padded wagons to pick you up.
Re: (Score:2)
I don't keep up. Is that Portuguese or Esperanto?
Re: (Score:2)
They are ISO character entities, without the amps. They can be used in Portuguese, Esperanto, English, and most other languages.
Specifically: right and left single and double quotes. Which is which is left as an exercise for the reader.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
As a psychotherapist, I can say "spot on".
On the other hand, in order to eliminate variables and attempt the holy grail of double-blind testing, treatments are dumbed down into near uselessness.
Thus the interventions which are getting recognised by science are those which are ultra-simple: EMDR and CBT.
Of course, it's impossible to do any skilled face-to-face intervention as a double-blind experiment. When the scientific community recognises this, we'll be comparing therapy to therapy, or even therapist t
Re: (Score:2)
As an aside: the problem with CBT is, to paraphrase AA, it "only works if you work it".
I went from being cripplingly OCD and agoraphobic to functional enough to do some pretty extraordinary things from that perspective entirely on the back of CBT, with no medication. But I WANTED to, and I think that's the real key with CBT.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled Slashdotting...
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
What the heck is MCAP? Surely they're not using a sample where 80.657% are 'psychopaths'?