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Originally Posted by longmissedblind
I guess I'm not a psychopath.... sociopath maybe...
Same thing. Sociopathy is simply an American term for what everyone else calls psychopathy. Until the recent appearance of DSM-V, the American Medical Association was out of step with the rest of the world and took the view that psychopathy didn't exist, preferring 'anti-social personality disorder', which was defined mainly by criminal convictions and therefore tended to be applied to lower-class people and more particularly black people, whereas psychopathy is no respecter of class or race.
Professor Kevin Dutton, a research psychologist at Magdalen College, Oxford (and a bit of a dodgy customer, but I won't go into that right now) ran the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale questionnaire on his website and claims he found that the occupations with the highest-scoring psychopaths were, in order:--
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (TV / Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Cleric
9. Chef
10. Civil servant
(Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Arrow 2013, p.173)
Last edited by 57 On Red; 09-06-2016 at 02:49 PM.