Contrast between Sociopaths and Psychopaths

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION3

Background of the Study4

Problem Statement6

Aims & Objectives7

Research Question7

Hypothesis7

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY16

Results and Findings Analysis18

Conclusion20

Ethical Considerations21

Bibliography22

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

There is a viable difference between the definition of the two concept of sociopaths and psychopaths. Although, most of the times they both have been defined as two opposite sides of the very same coin but in actual there mere basis of existence differentiate from each The psychologists have been in quite a dismissal in the history in order to define these two different states of minds, although there have not been any difference between the initial definitions of the two and neither was there any particularly defined diagnosing method defined for the two after their acceptance of two separate state of minds and therefore to be treated differently.

In 1952, the American Psychological Association distributed the first version of the Analytic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Sociopathic Disposition Aggravation was an analytic classification inside the first version of the DSM. Four subcategories of SPD were incorporated, simultaneously: Antisocial Reaction, Dyssocial Reaction, Sexual Deviations, and Habit. There were no real symptomatic criteria for Antisocial Response in the DSM-I. The term was utilized to allude to chronically antisocial people who were dependably in a bad position, who fail to offer an awareness of other's expectations and judgment, and who habitually were hard and passionately adolescent and in addition some different attributes. At this point, the thoughts of Psychopathy, as characterized by Cleckleyís criteria and Antisocial Reaction were, essentially, the same, despite the fact that the name was distinctive. Indeed, in the second version of his book, Cover of Sanity (1955), Cleckley watched that he felt therapists utilized the slang term of insane person quiet distinguishment of the absurdities in our official Sociopaths and Psychopaths are two different types of anti-social personality disorders.

According to Oxford handbook of Psychiatry (2005) the term psychopath and sociopath are two different anti-social disorders that occur in different situations. In the case of psychopaths, the disorder in a person's personality is caused mainly because of the hereditary reasons, like cortical under-arousal, fearlessness and impulsivity; this in turn causes such individuals to lean towards more risk taking behaviours which also include criminal acts like robbery, stealing and other criminal activities, depending upon the severity of the disorder.

While on the other hand, sociopaths are not suffering from the personality disorder from their birth or in other words are not the ones that inherit this psychological disorder from their ancestors but are actually suffering from the personality disorder as of the situations that arise in their lives, or in other words their personal life experiences which cause a change in one way or the other a change in their personality. Sociopaths are expected to have relatively normal temperaments as compared to the psychopaths and are thus identified as the ones with much more developed understanding of their actions as compared to psychopaths. The effect on their personality or their personality disorder is a reason ...