• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Psychopath isn’t a real mental disorder, it’s just Latin for mentally ill person.

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      5 months ago

      Psychopath is derived from Ancient Greek… And even besides that, laymen generally use the term to describe ASPD despite the two conditions not being entirely the same. Don’t be obtuse.

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        5 months ago

        Yes, I’m aware that the word has been used as a slur against people with ASPD and other mental illnesses, what’s your point?

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            The best non-DSM category for socio/psychopath I’ve come across is the lack of affective empathy, but intact cognitive empathy. (non-DSM because that’s just symptom clusters not aetiologies, you quite literally need to have broken laws to be diagnosed with ASPD). Then you have a look at what skills are useful to have as a surgeon, like not flinching when you cut into people, and their character traits including their bedside manners, yep there’s plenty of perfectly integrated psychopaths around. Same goes for pyromaniacs fire departments are full of them, you only ever hear about the ones who don’t get the curve.