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Tuesday, 12/29/2015 7:07:40 PM

Tuesday, December 29, 2015 7:07:40 PM

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Sociopath = Bernie Madoff or Allen Stanford (no violence)

Psychopath = Ted Bundy or see "American Psycho" for Wall Street cred (violence, often multiple violent acts)

Nott being a psychiatrist nor psychologist, nor placing a whole lott of stock in the lasted DSM version or any of this black art, this is my simple understanding of the distinction.

A sociopath will, among other behaviours, commit non-violent crimes.

A psychopath will, among other deviant behaviours, injure, maim, and/or kill people and/or animals.

Butt this is just MY usage of the terms. And it's as valid as any 'psychologist' or 'psychiatrist' because it's all wildly ambiguous, uncertain, and quite unscientifically defined (though they will argue that it is the fruit of scientific investigations, it's nott to a real scientist who knows that it is impossible to separate the innumerable variables of human behaviour and thus truly controlled experiments in 'psychology' as regards human behaviour (nott brain physiology) are mostly impossible).