Psychopathy
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Psychopathy and psychopathology, were terms used in contemporary criminology, psychiatry and psychology nowadays categorized as antisocial personality disorder. A focus of this wiki are fictional portrayals of psychopaths. We refer to The Mask of Sanity. Sade was not a psychopath but Gilles de Rais and Bathory were.
Psychopathology
Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress, or the manifestation of behaviors and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness or psychological impairment.
Psychopathy
- Though in widespread use as a psychiatric term, psychopathy has no precise equivalent in either the DSM-IV-TR, where it is most strongly correlated with antisocial personality disorder, or the ICD-10, where it is correlated with dissocial personality disorder. --Jahsonic, Nov 2006
Psychopathy is currently defined in psychiatry and clinical psychology as a condition characterized by lack of empathy or conscience, and poor impulse control or manipulative behaviors. It is a term derived from the Greek psyche (soul, breath hence mind) and pathos (to suffer), and was once used to denote any form of mental illness, often being confused with psychosis.
See also
- The Mask of Sanity
- Criminology
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Sociopath
- Fictional portrayals of psychopaths