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Sounds effective, but I wonder where the author got that definition of "psychopath".
by jdc 7y ago
Sounds effective, but I wonder where the author got that definition of "psychopath".
- oska 7y agoYes, agree that using the word 'narcissist' instead would have been better. Psychopaths don't necessarily feed on drama or crave attention.
- kubanczyk 7y agoThe author was concerned with true psychopaths (in the clinical sense), but I guess this timid tactic is as usable towards the narcissistic types.
- DanBC 7y agoPsychopath doesn't have a clinical definition. It's strictly pop-sci bollocks. (EDIT: "psychopath" does not appear as a diagnosis in ICD10 or DSM IV or DSM V. Other disorders have some overlap with the concept of psychopathy, but there isn't any dx that has a clear mapping.) That's a good thing, because it avoids stigmatising a real diagnosis that's given to a group of people who are already deeply stigmatised.