Fascinating stuff. You seem well read in the subject and I’m not, so let me ask a couple of questions my psychiatry professors weren’t for some reason interested in answering in the course a couple of weeks ago. So no blame on you if you can’t answer.
Why is psychopathy not even mentioned in the DSM? How does this affect the research and is it taken seriously in mainstream psychiatry? I understand ASPD is in the DSM, but it’s not even nearly the same construct and has comorbidities atypical for psychopathy.
Psychopaths are supposed to be expert liars. How does this affect assessing comorbidities, ie depression and anxiety, that can be seen as weaknesses and are usually evaluated based on self report?
I was once told by a professor (medical biochemistry) about studies on empathy of health care professionals that used supposedly shocking pictures and some kind of autonomous response measurement. They had similarly suppressed responses as psychopaths. Have you come across such studies? I haven’t checked whether this is bs but my own experience fits. The more I’ve seen nasty stuff in my med school education and job as a doctor the easier it becomes to block the associated negative emotions. This doesn’t mean I lack empathy, just that I’ve become better at controlling it. Is psychopathy truly a deficit in the initial hard wiring, or is there such a thing as secondary psychopath?
Why is psychopathy not even mentioned in the DSM? How does this affect the research and is it taken seriously in mainstream psychiatry? I understand ASPD is in the DSM, but it’s not even nearly the same construct and has comorbidities atypical for psychopathy.
I don’t know. It may be that it’s felt to be redundant with ASPD; they’re not nearly the same construct, yes, but there’s still overlap and I seem to recall there being a paper in the Handbook largely concerned with factor analysis and that issue.
I was once told by a professor (medical biochemistry) about studies on empathy of health care professionals that used supposedly shocking pictures and some kind of autonomous response measurement. They had similarly suppressed responses as psychopaths. Have you come across such studies?
Not that one, no. The studies I recall being cited tended to be things like (failing to) match up words with emotional connotations in which the psychopaths did poorly.
Fascinating stuff. You seem well read in the subject and I’m not, so let me ask a couple of questions my psychiatry professors weren’t for some reason interested in answering in the course a couple of weeks ago. So no blame on you if you can’t answer.
Why is psychopathy not even mentioned in the DSM? How does this affect the research and is it taken seriously in mainstream psychiatry? I understand ASPD is in the DSM, but it’s not even nearly the same construct and has comorbidities atypical for psychopathy.
Psychopaths are supposed to be expert liars. How does this affect assessing comorbidities, ie depression and anxiety, that can be seen as weaknesses and are usually evaluated based on self report?
I was once told by a professor (medical biochemistry) about studies on empathy of health care professionals that used supposedly shocking pictures and some kind of autonomous response measurement. They had similarly suppressed responses as psychopaths. Have you come across such studies? I haven’t checked whether this is bs but my own experience fits. The more I’ve seen nasty stuff in my med school education and job as a doctor the easier it becomes to block the associated negative emotions. This doesn’t mean I lack empathy, just that I’ve become better at controlling it. Is psychopathy truly a deficit in the initial hard wiring, or is there such a thing as secondary psychopath?
I don’t know. It may be that it’s felt to be redundant with ASPD; they’re not nearly the same construct, yes, but there’s still overlap and I seem to recall there being a paper in the Handbook largely concerned with factor analysis and that issue.
Not that one, no. The studies I recall being cited tended to be things like (failing to) match up words with emotional connotations in which the psychopaths did poorly.