Ten Superior Psychopaths

Tony Soprano and "The Vertical Split"
by Jeffrey Stern, PhD
http://www.psychologyoftheself.com/newsletter/2003/stern.htm

Video game wise - for me it would be Albert Wesker. The version of himself RE4 and RE5. When DC Douglas voiced him in RE5 that sealed it for me.

Of the ones on the list I know; Dexter is the only one who qualifies as a psychopath. To state that Tony Soprano was a Psychopath is apparently to miss the entire plot of the show. It gets more into the psychology of multiple-selves which deals with attributing different values and such to different domains of contingency, such that the person, although viewing themselves as consistent, behaves rather inconsistently depending on the circumstances. A loving caring father at home, but a ruthless mobster otherwise. Basically a form of cognitive dissonance which relates to Multiple Personality Disorder but that is distinct from it in that the person with MPD has multiple selves which are not aware of each other.

"Gergen (1991) and other postmodernists have claimed that multiple selves are an adaptive response to a world of multiple demans. Through this lens, as cultural evolution is carrying human nature toward a more autoplastic, docile structure of personality, the idea of an integrated identity or personality appears to be an ideological holdover from an earlier historical era. Similarly, Greenwald (1982) speculated that the idea of integrity or unity in personality, so central to classical theories of personality and psychotherapy (Ryan, 1995), may be a myth."
- The Handbook of Self and Identity

Haven't seen season 2 yet but if the keep close to the books I cannot wait to see what people think of those that make Joffrey Baratheon look like the child psychopath he is. "I want my Reek"

Ten Superior Psychopaths of recent tv history

ted, I like good boys, too, but there aren't any on this list. In reality, I'm not even familiar with most of them, since I don't watch enough TV.

Shane here is a cop. Really.

Miss C likes the bad boys, does she?

Actually, I have no idea who he is, but if he's that messed-up looking, I figure it's some kinda prison thing.

The only reason he went psycho on Walking Dead was because of the gross errors and poor writing in the script. I've no doubt the continuity issues in the story, bad direction and barely plausible storyline contributed as well. It's more a wonder as to how the entire cast didn't just lose it.