FENOMENOLOGIJA PSIHOPATIJE: RASPRAVA O KVALITATIVNIM RAZLIKAMA IZMEĐU PSIHOPATSKIH I NEPSIHOPATSKIH LIČNOSTI
PHENOMENOLOGY OF PSYCHOPATHY

Summary/Abstract: The approach to psychopathy in this paper is from the phenomenological perspective – the character of the subjective experience of the primary type of psychopathy is explored. Bearing in mind the dimensionality of psychopathy, this approach corresponds to the prototypical or typical cases presented in the prominent studies on this phenomenon and is relevant to the basic intention of our research – questioning the thesis that there are no qualitative differences between psychopaths and non-psychopaths. Based on the basic patterns of experience, interpersonal aspects and personality functioning, the arguments presented in this paper support the claim that there are qualitative differences between psychopaths and other people. From this phenomenological-existential perspective, psychopathy is seen as a modified way of being-in-the-world among people, not with them, i.e. the existence of diminished existential possibilities due to inhibited key human capacities, which differ from those universally human in the fundamental aspects of human existence.

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