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{{editprotected}} The word sociopath correlates with the term psychopath; the two terms are used to describe the same psychological construct. Not so with antisocial personality disorder and dissocial personality disorder; the criteria for labeling a person as a psychopath with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (widely considered the "gold standard" for assessment) are much more restrictive than that of ASPD or DPD. Sociopath means psychopath, not "person with ASPD" or "person with DPD". Therefore, please redirect Sociopath to Psychopathy, as Sociopathy is redirected to Psychopathy. Thank you. Alamanth (talk) 14:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

No problem.  Skomorokh, barbarian  15:06, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Alamanth (talk) 17:22, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Why on earth has this not been corrected? 69.136.223.161 (talk) 06:27, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

This is incorrect. Sociopathy and psychopathy are both subsets of ASPD that are not necessarily related to each other. The article on psychopathy explains some differences between the two. Thus, sociopath/sociopathy should not redirect to psychopath/psychopathy, and since there is currently no article on sociopathy or the sociopath, each should redirect to ASPD for the time being. --82.31.164.172 (talk) 22:43, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

I came here hoping to fix this redirect from Antisocial personality disorder to Antisocial personality disorder#Sociopathy, but it's edit protected (unnecessarily?) so I can't. 70.247.172.237 (talk) 04:08, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

See the edit request below. --Xagg (talk) 21:44, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 19 August 2012

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The term 'sociopath' should redirect to the article Sociopathy, not Antisocial personality disorder. The reasoning is as follows. 'Sociopathy' is a loosely-defined term that may be used to refer to Antisocial personality disorder, Psychopathy, or Dissocial personality disorder, depending on the context, but is not strictly synonymous with any of these, and as such has its own article at Sociopathy. Since a sociopath is simply someone who exhibits sociopathy, the latter of which has its own article as linked to previously, 'sociopath' should redirect to Sociopathy. --Xagg (talk) 21:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC) Xagg (talk) 21:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

• Why not just disambiguate it? (Turn it into a dab page) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:59, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

  I've marked the edit request as answered. There seems to be some debate about this at Talk:Sociopathy, and it looks like a change would be controversial. Xagg, please get a consensus for your edit before adding the {{edit protected}} template. Maybe you could start an RfC at Talk:Antisocial personality disorder and notify people at WikiProject Psychology. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius 13:02, 22 August 2012 (UTC)