Mitchell Zuckoff Quotes

Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD.

I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.

People with antisocial personality disorders aren't automatically bad - they simply approach the world with a more ruthless set of lenses. The lack of empathy or very weak empathy and the ability to read other people's weak spots can be a flammable combination when you get in the way of something they want. But they aren't a different species. They're a part of our spectrum.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

I don't have sociopathic tendencies!

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.