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18. They changed the name to "Anti Social Personality Disorder."

Does NOT have the same ring as Sociopath or Psychopath. The leaders in the psych field change the names of disorders when people start using it in derogatory ways. Idiot, Moron, Imbecile used to be actual diagnostic terms but they changed them all to “Developmentally Disabled” and then use their IQ level number for all of that.

Sometimes I wonder if they just don’t change some of the terms so all of us in the psych field have to toss out our old Diagnostic Manuals (which cost a ton of money) and to confuse those of us in the field. I was in the second year of grad school when they switched from the DSM 4 to the DSM 5. We were lucky they still used the DSM 4 for our license exams. But my DSM 4 is now outdated.