Psychopathy vs Sociopathy (2018 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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[Rerun] What’s the difference between psychopathy and sociopathy?

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0:00.0	Hey, deserving listeners, it's just me today. I thought I would respond to some patron
0:11.9	emails. Let me introduce the podcast. This is the psychology in Seattle podcast. I am
0:18.8	your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I am a licensed therapist and I am also a professor at Antioch
0:26.3	University, Seattle, in the couple and family therapy program. This email is from Patron
0:33.0	Torren. It reads, Dear Dr. Honda, I really enjoyed the episode you did on Mind Hunter.
0:40.5	Are criminals made or are they born? What is the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath?
0:47.6	According to psychological theory, which one is more influenced by nature and which one
0:52.1	is more influenced by nurture? I am just curious because this term psychopath seems to
0:56.9	be thrown around in pop culture a lot without a deeper understanding by the public, similar
1:03.3	to how the public confuses schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder. I think the
1:08.2	term psychopath and sociopath are often mistakenly used interchangeably, so I am just trying
1:13.8	to get some clarification on what are the actual differences between psychopaths and sociopaths.
1:20.2	That email is from Patron Torren. Good questions. We have talked about this in other episodes,
1:26.6	so I am not going to do a super deep dive on this, but I will try to answer them as concisely
1:33.9	as possible. The first question is, are criminals made or are they born? This is a classic
1:41.8	debate that has been going on for centuries, and it is really the classic debate of psychology
1:46.5	in general. Are our personalities, are we born with them, or are they a product of socialization?
1:55.0	There have been debates, and there have been fights among psychology people and among people
2:03.4	in the late public. In the past, it was much more of a hot topic today. I am guessing it
2:10.0	still is kind of a hot topic. When people have racist ideas, it is like, well, Mexicans
2:17.0	are criminals because they are born that way or something. It has been debated for a long
2:27.1	time, and the short answer to your question, are criminals made or are they born? The short
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