HP's and Psychos

 

I've always taken a keen interest in ponerology, the study of psychopathy, see background links below, and it is a well-known fact that certain personality types are drawn to certain occupations. According to the psychologist and clinical ponerologist Prof. Kevin Dutton, psychopaths gravitate towards certain career paths and he has compiled a list of the top ten. Number one, no surprise, is finance. However I was surprised to see that number two is medicine. Doctors, especially surgeons, have among them a far high proportion of psychopaths than the average of six percent; or higher, depending on the source. You might think: "But doctors need to care to do their jobs!" No they don't; in fact a doctor who doesn't care has a huge advantage over those who do because they don't experience the emotional trauma that comes from witnessing the everlasting parade of pain, death and dismemberment doctors have to deal with. That kind of character is skilfully reproduced in the fictional film Malice, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE. I then wondered if there are any professions that naturally repel psychopaths. My first instinct was to assume that the professions empaths are drawn to repel psychos because of the contradiction, such as community caring jobs and charity work; but this does not necessarily follow. A psycho who is a sexual predator might get involved in a children's charity or nursery school because it would allow them easy access to victims; a perfect example being the Oxfam Haiti scandal, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43112200. Psychos lack an understanding of many concepts which to non-psychos are obvious; not just the empathy but a sense of time, regret for the past or fear of the future. This is why genuine psychos never apologize to their victims nor do they fear punishment by the law or revenge from their victims' loved ones. One thing psychopaths have an acute awareness of is social status. They crave dominance over others and in a social situation this means eminence within the group. For this reason a psycho will find any job which has low conventional status unbearable... You can probably guess where I'm going with this. Yes, hospital portering is a natural filter to weed out psychopaths. There is literally nothing for them here. I can think of a perfect example, a porter I served with in the early '90's. He was, I believe, a clinical psychopath. He exhibited all the red flags. He was obsessed with leaving portering and joining security. The John Radcliffe has always had its own separate security corps, whereas in smaller hospitals this is very often a portering discipline. Nevertheless JRH porters are often required to assist security in various roles; I did so myself many times. This psycho porter volunteered for every security assist task he could get, sometimes bolting from the lodge the moment the attack alarm went off before anybody else could get to their feet.
 
This psycho porter was never given a job in hospital security; I think they saw through him. His zeal was a bit overplayed, in my view. However, obviously he could not remain in hospital portering. He used to seethe with agonized frustration and suppressed rage at situations where I found a solution through the dignity statement. He eventually managed to get onto a security team at a shopping centre. The last I heard about him he had become a prison warder... makes sense. So, that's another advantage of being a HP; you exist in a naturally psychopath-free bubble. Psychos rarely join HPing and those that do don't last very long. One more reason to love being a HP.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2015/12/nhs-nurses-destroy-patients-doll.html.
And: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/12/channel-4s-psychopath-night.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-empath-test_11.html.