The covert psychopath is a curious comorbidity of both F1 and F2 psychopath.
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Self-Concept And Emotional Regulation
false self grandiosity, undue sense of uniqueness, feelings of entitlement, alloplastic defenses disguised as prosocial, moral, spiritual, or communal;
hi-functionality and personality organization;
collapse consists of recurrent failures to attain goals;
internal locus of control, seeming self-sufficiency and resilience mask collapse, anxiety, insecurity, internalized bad object (harsh, sadistic, punitive superego or inner critic), avoidance, dependency;
internal regulation via daydreaming and planning of accomplishments in order to conform to an ego ideal;
no mood lability;
Impulsivity and rationalization of reactance and defiance, contumaciounsess;
low boredom threshold and tolerance;
externalizing-internalizing;
no suicidal ideation, violence other-directed;
hypochondriasis, addictive behaviors;
no dissociative self-states, selective attention, confabulation, repression or denial, primary psychopathic protector facade;
Interpersonal Relationships
paranoid ideation catastrophzing;
numerous but shallow relationships;
avoidant-dismissive attachment style, no real bonding, commitment, or investment (though often peremptory and perfunctory stable pseudo-relationships);
cold empathy plus minimal access to empathy and positive emotions;
inability to genuinely participate in group or team activities, disruptive presence;
passive-aggressive, sullen, surly, self-denying, behaviors; cunning, vengeful, and premeditated malevolence;
intermittent reinforcement;
scorn for others, often masked by pseudohumility;
schizoid or avoidant phases alternate with bursts of histrionic attention seeking, but no sustained impression management or need for narcissistic supply;
recklessness aimed at controlling, hurting, or affecting others, not aimed at self-gratification (no novelty, thrill, and risk seeking behaviors);
sadistic-punitive or goal-oriented triangulation;
Stable object and introject permanences (constancy).
Social Adaptation
Socially awkward and inept;
desultory work, slacker (pseudo- sublimation);
no overall ambition, focus on narrow, short-term, limited goals;
no preoccupation with appearances;
often fails, loser, but not self-defeating or self-destructive. Failures outcome of indolence, entitlement, preference for shortcuts, inability to commit, invest, or delay gratification, impulsivity, recklessness.
Ethics, Standards, and Ideals
idiosyncratically and unevenly moral, caricatured modesty (pseudo-humility), activism and apparent enthusiasm for sociopolitical affairs;
inordinate ethnic and moral relativism;
pretended contempt for money in real life, feigned spirituality and “guru” status;
irreverence or even hostility toward authority.
Love and Sexuality
marital or relationship instability;
cold and greedy seductiveness coupled with aggressive entitlement to sex;
extramarital affairs and promiscuity;
uninhibited, often kinky, sexual life.
Cognitive Style
dichotomous thinking (splitting): helpful or obstacle;
sometimes appears to be impressively knowledgeable, especially on esoteric or arcane topics;
egocentric perception of reality (“what’s in it for me”);
fondness for shortcuts to acquisition (of knowledge, possessions, relationships, status, access, etc.);
indecisive, not opinionated (mistaken for openness);
love of language, often strikingly articulate.
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