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sociopath Psychol.|ˈsəʊsɪəʊpæθ, ˈsəʊʃɪəʊ-|
[f. socio-, after psychopath.]
Someone with a personality disorder manifesting itself chiefly in anti-social attitudes and behaviour. Hence socioˈpathic a.; sociˈopathy.
1930G. E. Partridge in Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry X. 55 A conspicuous number who..may justly be termed ‘sociopathic’. Ibid., We may use the term ‘sociopathy’ to mean anything deviated or pathological in social relations. Ibid. 56 We may exclude from the class of essential sociopaths those whose inadequacy is primarily related to physical weakness, fear, hypersensitiveness, shyness and self-blame. 1940Hinsie & Schatzky Psychiatric Dict. 493/1 Sociopathy, this term has generally been used to designate an abnormal or pathological mental attitude toward the environment. 1962L. Yablonsky Violent Gang (1967) xii. 216 The violent-gang structure recruits its participants from the more sociopathic youths living in the disorganized-slum community. 1968Listener 26 Sept. 408/1 In America ‘psychopathy’ has been replaced by ‘sociopathy’. 1976Smythies & Corbett Psychiatry iii. 29 Many sociopaths come from appalling backgrounds or from genetically afflicted families. |