True Crime Psychology and Personality: Narcissism, Psychopathy, and the Minds of Dangerous Criminals

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channel. You can also subscribe to Mental Health // Demystified with Dr. Tracey Marks and Healthy // Toxic, two new shows coming soon! Ars Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and t...

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channel. You can also subscribe to Mental Health // Demystified with Dr. Tracey Marks and Healthy // Toxic, two new shows coming soon! Ars Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and t...

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channelArs Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and this podcast, go to arslonga.media. We welcome your feedback at info@arslonga.media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channelArs Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and this podcast, go to arslonga.media. We welcome your feedback at info@arslonga.media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channelArs Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and this podcast, go to arslonga.media. We welcome your feedback at info@arslonga.media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channelArs Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and this podcast, go to arslonga.media. We welcome your feedback at info@arslonga.media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

More Content on Narcissism, Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Antisocial Personality DisorderFor even more, scientifically informed content on psychology and personality check out Dr. Grande's YouTube channelArs Longa MediaTo learn more about or to support Ars Longa Media and this podcast, go to arslonga.media. We welcome your feedback at info@arslonga.media  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

This podcast examines the construct of female serial killers' behavior versus what we would expect with male serial killers. In particular, we focus on the female serial killer named Nannie Doss, otherwise known as “the giggling grandma”.When it comes to female serial killers, one of the weird things is that for a long time a lot of people didn't even believe that women were capable of serial murd...

This episode examines the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case, as well as questions like was her sentence fair? Should she be released early? What was the role of Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy (Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another)? In 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was convicted of second-degree murder for the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. In 2018, Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s conspirator, Nicholas...

This episode looks at the mental health and personality aspects in the Harold Fish murder case. What dark triad traits do we see in this case? The Harold Fish murder case was an unusual self-defense situation that turned into a second-degree murder conviction. There has been speculation about how the dark triad traits may have influenced the outcome of this case. More Content on Narcissism, Psycho...

This episode discusses the dark triad of personality which includes psychopathy, narcissism, and machiavellianism. Particular attention is made to types of sexual fantasies in general and specifically fantasies amongst those with "dark personalities." The first sexual fantasy is “intimate.” This is the most common fantasy. Here we see a sense of attachment and familiarity. This is when somebody wa...

This episode discusses how did the dynamics of the Chris Watts-Nichol Kessinger affair contributed to the Watts family murders. The dynamics in this affair appear to be a critical factor in this case. One theory of the dynamics is that Chris Watts was introverted and insecure and Nichol Kessinger was confident, extraverted, and experienced in romantic relationships. This may have led to a power di...

True Crime Psychology and Personality with Dr. Todd Grande is a podcast that profile’s criminal personalities, discuss personality disorders and examine real life events from a scientifically informed perspective Links for Dr. Grande YouTube channel Want more mental health content? You might also be interested in these other Ars Longa Podcasts: Mental Health // Demystified with Dr. Tracey Marks He...

This episode discusses how people that are narcissistic and psychopathic use emotions to manipulate people. This is a specific type of manipulation, where people try to elicit a specific emotion to achieve objective. We know this tends to be more associated, as a behavior anyway, with narcissism and psychopathy. Somebody doesn't have to be narcissistic or psychopathic to be manipulative. When we t...

This episode discusses the Chris Watts murder case in relation to our understanding of familicide. There's actually a lot of information available in the literature about familicide and yet you'll see kind of a narrowing in on the Chris Watts case without considering that larger context. Sometimes in research and just in trying to gain knowledge in general we have to step back from something to ge...

This episodes delves into the potential personality characteristics present in the Chris Watts case? There are a number of theories about these murders including those involving psychopathy, narcissism, rage, impulsivity, and infidelity. The details of these murders are horrific. In 2018, Chris Watts murdered his wife, Shanann Watts (who was 15 weeks pregnant), and his daughters (Bella, age 4 & Ce...

This episode discusses questions like What is a malignant narcissist? And How does malignant narcissism manifest in work settings? Malignant narcissism in general refers to an individual has a combination of characteristics related to narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, paranoia, and ego-syntonic sadism and aggression. There are two types of psychopathy: Factor 1 (p...

This episode covers how to tell the difference between a psychopath and a narcissist, and what causes narcissistic personality disorder. When we use the term psychopath, we're talking about some who has trait psychopathy and when we use the term narcissist, we're talking about someone who has trait narcissism. Narcissism has two types: grandiose and vulnerable. Primary psychopathy has characterist...

This episodes dives into the mental mental health and personality characteristics at work in Aaron Hernandez case. It is based on the Netflix series: Killer inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez. Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is a Cluster B personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) APSD has seven symptom criteria: 1: Repeated unlawful behaviors 2: Consistent deceit...

This episode answers questions about the relationship between co-occurring disorders, antisocial personality, and criminal offending. With antisocial personality disorder we see seven symptoms in the symptom criteria: repeatedly violating society's norms so, engaging a behavior that could be grounds for arrest, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggression, a disregard for the safety of...

True Crime Psychology and Personality with Dr. Todd Grande is a podcast that profile’s criminal personalities, discuss personality disorders and examine real life events from a scientifically informed perspective Links for Dr. Grande YouTube channel Want more mental health content? You might also be interested in these other Ars Longa Podcasts: Mental Health // Demystified with Dr. Tracey Marks He...

The debut podcast from Ars Longa Media, True Crime Psychology and Personality discusses the personality traits behind some of the most infamous, violent criminals. Building on the success of his YouTube channel, this podcast features Dr. Todd Grande's scientifically informed profiles of famous criminals and analyses of the psychopathology of serial killers and other villains. The Dark Tetrad of pe...