What is the difference between antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy?
In contrast, psychopathy, although not a mental health disorder formally recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR, 2000), is considered to be a more severe form of antisocial personality disorder. Specifically, in order to be considered a psychopath, an individual must experience a lack of remorse of guilt about their actions in addition to demonstrating antisocial behaviors. While 50% to 80% of incarcerated individuals have been found to have antisocial personality disorder, only 15% have been shown to have the more severe antisocial personality disorder type of psychopathy. Psychopaths tend to be highly suspicious or paranoid, even in comparison to individuals with antisocial personality disorder. The implications of this suspicious stance can be dire, in that paranoid thoughts (ideations) tend to lead the psychopathic person to interpret all aggressive behaviors toward them, even those that are justified, as being arbitrary and unfair. A televised case study of
