The other reason for the change was because the field of therapy, while it finds the diagnosis of disorders helpful, it realized that the labeling of a person is not. Since sociopathy and psychopathy both contain the root word 'pathy,' or 'disease,' and really it's not a disease but rather a disorder, the terms are not an accurate description for what's going on. My take on that is you're more or less correct, although the going consensus for those in the field is to only use antisocial personality disorder. I said as much to one of my teachers once and didn't get the straightest of answers. The phonetic similarity between psychotic and psychopath seems to cause confusion in many people, you're totally not the only one. The diagnosis of schizophrenia falls in this category, as well as a few others. The current term, unless it was changed again in the new DSM-V, is antisocial personality disorder.īeing psychotic, or perhaps more accurately, being a person with psychotic tendencies, means at times they find it hard to distinguish truth and reality from their delusions. As psychology has evolved, these terms fell into disuse as the symptoms became more refined (probably as technology in this area grew in sophistication, they became less based on the behavioral aspects in order to more broadly, and perhaps more accurately, diagnose people) and the old terms were discarded as they fell prey to media sensationalism. The former two are more or less forms of antisocial personality disorders whereas the latter is a mental disorder.įrom what I understand, psychopath and sociopath are vocabulary terms that essentially refer to the same disorder. It appears that the line between psychopathy and sociopathy is not clearly drawn, whereas psychosis is a branch of its own (e.g. I treated psychotic and psychopathic as synonymous terms, when they are not. After some quick googling, it appears that I am indeed wrong. Most people are neither in psychiatry's eyes.ĮDIT: Albeit a bit harsh, human2096 is actually right. A person who breaks the rules for the hell of it and gives no fucks is a sociopath. Someone who actively sees and hears things that are not there or believes that they actually are god is a psychopath. A sociopath would be a more accurate term for weird people, but even that is hardly true. People like to throw it around and call anybody who is weird a psychopath, but most people are not. When leaving the space you come across a small TV-clock with a black and white reminder, an after-image of what’s been shown in the dark.In laymen's terms, it is the inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. I thought: let’s make an installation to fill everybody, men and women, with joy again, and this by redefining a lot of heavy-duty words, giving people an agreable mental massage. The installation is dedicated to Baubo, obscene goddess of the past, looking through her nipples, talking with the vulva, dancing in such a dirty way that all melancholic and depressed women were filled with joy again. Title: “Il faut convaincre les investisseurs “, the first sentence of the actual discussion. with dress wide open like a butterfly (3).īehind the mirror, on a black and white stapled floor ( freemasonry), 3 monitors, the dissection of a man’s conversation on easy making money. touching breast and sex simultaneously (4), 5. completely nude except for a belt (29), 3. showing their breasts while looking in the spectator’s eyes (36), 2. I show 96 women images that are items out of my databank I connected them with words of texts on the capacity of internal self-organization, on thermodynamics, on order in systems in a state of non-equilibrium, on connectionistic networks and on representation of concepts and associations in general. The 30 meter iron strip is made of 12 separate iron plates. The installation consisted of a computer animated large screen projection in opposite to the bright side which was partly occupied by a 30 meter iron strip on which 96 magnetic plexiglass and polystyrene plates. Behind the middle, on the floor, 12 plexiglass mirrors of 1 by 2 meters, lying there as an ego, special self-reflection. My concept was: the Kunsthalle Lophem is a giant head divided in 2, the subconscious and the conscious. "The entrance door of the exhibition space is divided in dark and bright: up to you to make the choice.
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