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Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Ted Bundy, Dexter Morgan, Alex DeLarge, Buffalo Bill, Dennis Rader. What do all of these famous names from true crime and cinema have in common? They have all been, in some form, diagnosed as or written to be sociopaths or psychopaths. But are they really? And if so, what truly makes them sociopathic or psychopathic?
Today’s Psyche Saturday will delve deep into the similarities between antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy, and psychopathy. Is there a difference?
References
Psychopath Checklist: https://www.businessinsider.com/hare-psychopath-checklist-test-sociopath-2016-11?r=UK&IR=T
https://www.behavioralhealthflorida.com/blog/three-clusters-personality-disorders/
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed. American Psychiatric Association.
Johnson, S.A. (2019). Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored. Forensic Research & Criminology International Journal.
Ogloff, J.R. (2006). Psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder conundrum.
Hare, R.D. and Neumann, C.S. (2008). Psychopathy as a clinical and empirical construct.
Pitchford, I. (2001). The origins of violence: Is psychopathy an adaptation?
Kiehl, K.A. and Hoffman, M.B. (2011). The criminal psychopath: History, neuroscience, treatment, and economics.
Dutton, K. (2012). The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success.
Psychopaths’ brains show differences in structure and function. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health.
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