James Fallows: Why You Cannot Say You 'Like' Firing People - & why you can't un-ring that bell

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38. I defer to you and wish to commend your meticulous attention to detail. I do want to say that

I have read so much on the subject of sociopathy\psychopathy\ASPD that it has all turned to jello (or should I say 'psycho-babble'? in my head.

A little backstory: several years ago my stepdaughter was diagnosed with early-onset bipolar with possible co-morbid ODD (Opposition Defiant Disorder). In trying to bring myself up to speed, I read this huge tome called "The Bipolar Child" (A great book, btw.) My wife at the same time was taking college classes in child psych and abnormal psych and it may be that in 'TBpC' or my wife's textbooks I saw the word defined. Also, had extensive consultations with a clinical psychologist specializing in children who ran an extensive battery of tests on my stepdaughter. The result is that I may have mistakenly ascribed to DSM-IV what was in one of these other sources. To further add to the confusion in my head and memory, this clinical psychologist had a copy of the DSM-IV sitting on the desk in her office (although she mercifully did not read from it to us while we were in sessions

Thanks again for the bibliographic corrections. Not a snark at all, imho.