On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Gar: Beyond my scope, but I've been told by people in the field that > "Sociopath" is no longer accepted as a technical term. > > Then there is _no_ excuse for using it for analysis. It merely means > something like Mother-Fucker -- and explains nothing. >
Bullshit. Sociopath may not be an accepted technical term in psychiatry or a well-defined "medical disorder" (I am personally skeptical of medicalizing all aspects of behavior), but the word has a reasonably clear plain language meaning, and is nothing at all like "motherfucker". It takes a lot of hubris to assign yourself the authority to pronounce on what constitutes legitimate "analysis". -raghu.
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