We Have All Met a Psychopath
— but we do not always know until later
This article is based on blogs, websites and other articles and stories about the psychopath that I have read online. In addition, I have sought out scientific subject matter that describes what a psychopath is.
The purpose is to collect and disseminate reliable information to readers who may need such information.
Psychopathy is not a clinical diagnosis
Psychopathy is a controversial term for a personality type that is characterized by lying, manipulation and abuse of other people. (…)
The term comes from German psychiatry and was originally used quite synonymously with what we today call personality disorder. However, the term was imprecise, and in popular parlance it was misused as a kind of easy-going characteristic of people one does not like and who one finds unsympathetic. (…)
One can be more or less psychopathic. Psychopathy is thus not a diagnosis, but something you have to a greater or lesser degree, often in combination with other personality disorders, and especially antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder. (Quote from Great Medical Lexicon.)
Who is the psychopath?
