(November 4, 2014 at 2:37 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Question:
Are narcissists also sociopaths by definition; is the former a subset of the latter?
Because my understanding is a sociopath doesn't care about right or wrong. The narcissist, IMO, is someone who is so self-deluded and self-absorbed that they are oblivious to any wrongs they commit.
PaulPaublo's story also sounds to me more like a narcissist than a sociopath. Maybe this is a hair-splitting distinction, and I agree with PP's statement that as a layman, I need to be careful of diagnosing, so let me preface this is just my opinion. Both his experience and mine were with someone who lies about their own wrongdoing, rewriting history in their own brains, so that they can either justify it or pretend they never did it.
Case studies of sociopaths that I'm familiar with, by contrast, are where they are caviler about the wrongs they committed. They have no need to rationalize their behavior or deny anything.
Those more formally trained in psychology: please correct me if I'm wrong.
My understanding of a sociopath is someone who sees others as more like like things than other people with feelings. Things to be manipulated or ignored depending on how they feel. They lack empathy and so often find themselves as successful business men because they trample all others without thinking "ooh that was bad".
The worrying thing here is that in America you seem to have an entire powerful political party made up soley of sociopaths.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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