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That's because the terms "Psychopathy" and "Sociopathy" are criminal legal terms or shorthand and not clinical terms.

The clinical terms [1] are Dissocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Anti-Social Personality Disorder are most related, though many aspects of "psychopaths" can't be measured - for example how do accurately and repeatably measure "lack of empathy?"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_B_personality_disorder...



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