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Med’s Eileen Anderson talks about personality disorders

What’s the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath?
How Stuff WorksEileen Anderson, the Anne Templeton Zimmerman MD Professor in Bioethics at the School of Medicine, said antisocial personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and serious lack of empathy. “However, other personality disorders, such as narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder could also be invoked,” Anderson said, noting that diagnoses also tend to refer to someone with a profound lack of empathy, a dominant self importance and a lack of moral compass.