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I haven't found Ray Peat's thoughts on psychopaths, so I asked him what's his guess about what causes it and if it can be cured. His response:
Then I asked him if by maternal neglect he referred to something like not touching or talking the baby and he replied:
Yes, touching, talking, looking.
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin
Ray Peat said:I think it's usually a combination of some neurological-endocrine damage and the effect of parental, especially maternal, neglect. I think there's an interaction of learning with brain development, and like language learning after puberty, it's probably very hard for an adult to learn to have empathy. Cultures can have attitudes that resemble psychopathy, attitudes about how people should interact, degrees of xenophobia, for example.
Then I asked him if by maternal neglect he referred to something like not touching or talking the baby and he replied:
Yes, touching, talking, looking.
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin