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Sociopathy: forever forensic?
Author(s) -
Robertson Michael D,
Bray Amanda,
Parker Gordon B
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb94198.x
Subject(s) - psychopathy , antisocial personality disorder , psychology , personality , personality disorders , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , medicine , poison control , injury prevention , medical emergency
We suggest that the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, or “sociopathy”, in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th edition) are deficient in that they define “failed sociopathy”, and fail to include an equally valid group of individuals who, although seen by society as successful, display core features of the antisocial personality disorder.