Sociopaths lack any concept of anxiety which makes them perfect for "heroic" jobs such as surgeons, firefighters or police officers and indeed these professions see a higher than average rate of sociopaths compared to the general population. ![]() This differs vastly from a sociopath who can be quite intelligent, but isn't necessarily so, and even though they don't feel empathy in the same way as others they often function very well in society. They are loners, don't function well or at all in normal society, lack a theory of mind and always fail to recognise other people as full human beings. They usually have a history of violence and juvenile delinquency, and notably suffer from psychotic episodes whereby they lose touch with reality. These are people who are very often unintelligent, unaware that they process reality differently from others and often incapable of understanding or controlling their own emotions. Think Son of Sam, Ed Gein or Albert Fish. ![]() A psychopath, as in "psychosis", is someone who is not only incapable of empathy but also someone who is quite disconnected from reality. ![]() This might just be pointless nit-picking, but I think the Psychopath trait should be renamed Sociopath.
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