• April 27, 2024

According to researchers from the universities of Columbia, in the United Kingdom, and of Texas, in the United States , they claim that sadism is recorded more frequently in society, but what are the characteristics of sadistic people?

In an interview for GetQoralHealth, the psychoanalyst Eugenia Vega, specialist of the Patient Assistance Clinic of the Psychoanalytic Society of Mexico (SPM) , details that people with sadistic tendencies enjoy causing pain to others, be it physical or psychological.

The specialist mentions that this type of people learn since childhood that inflicting pain is a way of giving love, that is, the parents said "I hit you because I love you".

"In this way people are confusing that part of abuse with love. So at that moment they lived it passively, but when they grow up they are active subjects, that is, they love that way ", explains Eugenia Vega.

Identify a sadistic person!

A study of Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, University of New Mexico , suggests that sadistic people have greater activation in some brain parts such as the amygdala (responsible for processing emotional reactions) when they observe some image that reflects suffering.

For the psychoanalyst Eugenia Vega, the main characteristics of a sadistic person are:

1. Enjoy causing pain to others
2. Do not get scared with things that others do not feel comfortable with
3. Suffering does not generate feelings of humanity, that is, they are not bothered by the pain of others
4. They enjoy the exercise of power over the other

The specialist that the way to prevent this type of behavior is to teach to respect others from childhood, as well as show that love and violence should not be mixed. And you, do you know some people with characteristics of sadism?

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