Five differences between sociopaths and psychopaths.
反社会者和精神病患者的5个不同点。
People often confuse sociopaths with psychopaths which is not surprising
人们经常将反社会者和精神病患者弄混淆,这并不奇怪
since the two share features of antisocial personality disorder.
因为这两种人有着相同的反社会型人格障碍特征。
According to the DSM-5, the main signs of antisocial personality disorder are
根据《美国精神障碍诊断与统计手册第5版》,反社会型人格障碍的主要迹象有:
Egocentrism, Lack of empathy, Manipulative, Hostility and Impulsivity.
利己主义、缺乏同情心、操纵别人、敌对倾向以及易冲动。
Despite the similarities, however, there are some differences between sociopaths and psychopaths.
虽然它们之间有相似性,但也有有些区别。
One, psychopaths do not have a conscience.
1. 精神病患没有良知。
This is arguably the main difference between psychopaths and sociopaths.
这可以说是反社会者和精神病患的主要区别。
While sociopaths are capable of feeling remorse and guilt,
反社会者能够感受到懊悔和内疚,
psychopathic traits include lack of empathy and lack of guilt and remorse.
精神病患特征包括缺乏同情心、缺乏内疚和懊悔感。
Two, psychopaths are manipulative and calculating.
2. 精神病患会操纵别人且精于算计。
With their charm and charisma, psychopaths can be extremely manipulative and calculating.
因为他们本身的魅力,精神病患极度易于操控别人并精于算计。
They are very good at maintaining emotional and physical control so as to organize their criminal behavior.
他们善于维持情感和身体控制,因此能够组织自己的犯罪行为。
Sociopaths, on the other hand, are less organized and are more likely to spontaneously commit crimes.
而另一方面,反社会者缺乏组织,他们更有可能自发地实施犯罪。
In this sense, sociopaths are more normal compared to psychopaths.
从这层意义上说,相比精神病患,反社会者更为正常。
Three, sociopaths are able to form relationships with others.
3. 反社会者能够和别人建立关系。
Because sociopaths are capable of feeling remorse,
因为反社会者能够感受到懊悔,
they are also capable of forming deep emotional attachments such as with friends and family.
他们也能够和朋友和家人形成深厚的情感依附。
Psychopaths are unable to do this because of their lack of empathy.
这是精神病患无法做到的,因为他们缺乏同情心。
Four, a psychopath's brain is different from other peoples.
4. 精神病患的大脑和其他人的不一样。
Interestingly, the brain of a psychopath is different from that of other people.
有趣的是精神病患的大脑和其他人大脑确实不一样。
The prefrontal cortex which is responsible for decision-making, social behavior and personality expression
在扫描精神病的大脑时,患在杏仁核(杏仁核负责情感)内负责决策、
in the amygdala which is responsible for emotions do not light up in the psychopaths brain scan,
社会行为以及人格表现的前额叶并没有亮起来,
which means there's little to no activity in these regions.
这意味着在这些区域没有什么活动。
Five, psychopathy is a more severe form of sociopathy.
5. 精神病患是一种更严重的社会病态形式。
In some, psychopaths is a much more severe form of sociopathy,
在一些情况中,精神病患是更为严重的社会病态形式,
thus, you can say that all psychopaths are sociopaths
因此,你可以认为所有精神病患都是反社会者
but sociopaths are not necessarily psychopaths.
但反社会者并不一定是精神病患
So what are your thoughts about these differences? Have you ever met someone with either of these traits before?
因此你对这些区别有什么想法?你遇过有上述特征的人么?
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