Psychopathy, or the psychopathic spectrum?

Originally Posted by Shodan

Oh. My argument about psychopathy's spectral/dichotomous nature was based on the premise that psychopathy could be reliably diagnosed with no information other than the output of brain scans. If that isn't true, I retract my argument.

There's no standardized diagnostic criteria for which one can be diagnosed with psychopathy, because psychopathy isn't a technically recognized disorder. Like, it's not in the DSM, for example.

Originally Posted by Shodan

Oh. My argument about psychopathy's spectral/dichotomous nature was based on the premise that psychopathy could be reliably diagnosed with no information other than the output of brain scans. If that isn't true, I retract my argument.

There's no standardized diagnostic criteria for which one can be diagnosed with psychopathy, because psychopathy isn't a technically recognized disorder. Like, it's not in the DSM, for example.

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by Rant

There's no standardized diagnostic criteria for which one can be diagnosed with psychopathy, because psychopathy isn't a technically recognized disorder. Like, it's not in the DSM, for example.

This keeps getting further away from what I thought.

[Shodan]

Originally Posted by Rant

There's no standardized diagnostic criteria for which one can be diagnosed with psychopathy, because psychopathy isn't a technically recognized disorder. Like, it's not in the DSM, for example.

This keeps getting further away from what I thought.