Cool. I knew there at least used to be “antisocial personality disorder”, which I thought was under cluster B along with narcissism and borderline. And I thought “psychopathy” was a different term for APD. Thanks for the correction.
The main thing I wanted to gesture at there is that I wasn’t using “psychopath” as something derogatory. I didn’t mean “bad guys”. I meant something more like “people who are naturally unconstrained by social pressures and have no qualms breaking even profound taboos if they think it’ll benefit them”. (I just now made that up.) It seems to me that it’s a pretty specifically different mental/emotional architecture.
Cool. I knew there at least used to be “antisocial personality disorder”, which I thought was under cluster B along with narcissism and borderline. And I thought “psychopathy” was a different term for APD. Thanks for the correction.
The main thing I wanted to gesture at there is that I wasn’t using “psychopath” as something derogatory. I didn’t mean “bad guys”. I meant something more like “people who are naturally unconstrained by social pressures and have no qualms breaking even profound taboos if they think it’ll benefit them”. (I just now made that up.) It seems to me that it’s a pretty specifically different mental/emotional architecture.
Yep, your intended meaning about the distinctive mental architecture was pretty clear, just wanted to offer the factual correction.