Sociopaths are not all criminals! They may determine that it's disadvantageous to commit crimes. There are reputedly a lot of them in high finance where having no conscience is useful.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
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DavidS - Nov 06, 2013 7:28:57 pm PST #6099 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
P.M. Marc - Nov 06, 2013 7:59:06 pm PST #6100 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Burrell, that's rough.
I'm perfectly willing to accept that there are plenty of sociopaths out there. I'm just thinking if I were a sociopath I wouldn't tell anyone. Unless sociopaths put a high value on honesty, but why would they?
Not according to the DSM! Being a poopy lie head is a diagnostic criteria!
I mean, neither socio or psychopath is a diagnosis--it's all anti-social personality disorder, as mentioned above. There's some weaseling around where some professionals use them to distinguish between nurture made and nature made. All that said, I'm not 100% sold on the whole concept of personality disorders as currently defined, given the givens, the demographics generally labelled as such, and given the softness of the science when it comes to mental health issues.
I mean, fuck, it's not all that far removed from humours at times.
P.M. Marc - Nov 06, 2013 8:03:37 pm PST #6101 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
PS, for shits and giggles and eyerolls, y'all should lurk on ASPD forums.
In which many of them whine about how much more sympathetically aspies are treated, because the aspies have better press. (Which leads to my entirely specious notion that many people diagnosed with or suspecting they have ASPD are just asswipes who happen to be on the spectrum.)
Burrell - Nov 06, 2013 8:11:43 pm PST #6102 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm not 100% sold on the whole concept of personality disorders as currently defined
Meaning the new DSM-V? I haven't read it over, but I've heard a lot of grousing from my therapist friends about the new criteria and diagnoses.
P.M. Marc - Nov 06, 2013 9:30:45 pm PST #6103 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Period. DSM-IV or V.
Fred Pete - Nov 07, 2013 4:28:46 am PST #6104 of 30002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Sociopaths are not all criminals! They may determine that it's disadvantageous to commit crimes. There are reputedly a lot of them in high finance where having no conscience is useful.
Or, sometimes the scandal isn't the crimes people commit. It's that so many of the things they do are perfectly legal.
erikaj - Nov 07, 2013 5:23:21 am PST #6105 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yes. That.
lisah - Nov 07, 2013 5:29:38 am PST #6106 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
What is ASPD?
Burrell - Nov 07, 2013 5:29:55 am PST #6107 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Period. DSM-IV or V.
Well I'd say the fact that they changed it so significantly between the two suggests that people working in the field agree that there's a need to revisit it.
Tom Scola - Nov 07, 2013 5:33:38 am PST #6108 of 30002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Antisocial personality disorder.