This was needed elsewhere, so a quick important distinction:
From Greek:
• psychosis: mind-condition
• in psychosis: temporarily disconnected from reality
• psychopathy: mind-suffering or - disease
• a psychopath: a person with a persistent antisocial personality disorder
they’re unrelated
In terms of technical usage, whatever your discipline says it means is correct.
In terms of common usage, I'm afraid that ship has sailed, and 'psychopathy' means "the state of being a psychopath" as often as it has the technical meaning. 1/2
#EtymologicalFallacy
This is the (good IMO) reason they keep changing the names of things in the DSM. Words get into the common vernacular, become subject to natural linguistic change, and confusing everyone.
It helps if you explicitly clarify whether you're using technical jargon or vernacular. 2/2
Oh sure there’s a lot more to be said there even beyond your point
My only purpose in posting this is to make a distinction, for the vast majority of people who confuse them, that what people experience in bipolar is not equivalent to a persistent social disorder
