To practitioners in psychiatry and clinical psychology, any
diagnosis should be stigma-free, but since the majority of
sociopaths are not at all harmless in the real world, i would
certainly view such a label as an insult--just as calling someone a
Nazi is rarely an attempt to describe political affiliation.

=margaret

On  1 May 97 at 9:05, Juan Carlos Garelli wrote:

>You are taking the term "sociopath" as though it were an
> insult, It is definitively NOT an insult, but a PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL
> CONDITION, like phobia, hysteria, paranoid schizophrenia or Korsakoff
> Syndrome.
>