Psychopathy does not and never has existed as an actual diagnosis. The diagnosis used to be 'sociopath', but this also does not exist anymore.
The modern diagnosis is 'anti-social personality disorder', it is a highly political diagnosis that is generally only given to men by court-associated psychatric services. The main psychological aspect of antisocial personality disorder is a lack of emotion in a very specific way- they are aware of the theoretical existance of emotions and can recognise and respond to emotional ques without 'feeling' any emotion. Normal people are controlled by their emotions, this is what regulates your behaviour- you don't do thinks that make you feel bad because it feels bad, people don't commit crimes because people actually FEEL guilt and it causes them a lot of pain. People with ASPD may be aware of what 'guility is' or that they should be 'guility' but they never feel guilty.
I think that in truth ASPD and Borderline personality disorder (BPD) are the same thing on a spectrum (like autism & schizophrenia)- they are all emotion dysaffective disorders that are characteristed by not experiencing emotion properly. Normal people experience emotion in the first person, people with Borderline experience emotion in the third person subjectively (meaning that our emotional affect is highly variable resulting in 'splitting') and people with ASPD who experience emotion in the third person objectively (they may are perfectly capable of feeling bad, they just won't feel bad unless they believe that they SHOULD feel bad).
I've typed out and deleted about 3 paragraphs on this...I'm not entirely sure how I should talk about this stuff. I have BPD and I react very differently to drugs than normal people, I have also had a couple of very close relationships with people who have been diagnosed as ASPD; including tripping with them both on many, many occasions. To be honest, psychedelics are water off a ducks back with us- I would argue that they ARE theraputic , but they don't change anything about us, they don't 'treat' the condition because the condition is not a 'sickness', it's just...how we experience the world. 'Treating' someone with ASPD/BPD is the equivilant of conditioning someone to percieve black as white- maybe you could do it but you're actually destroying the essence of their humanity by imposing your beliefs on another.
LSD doesn't seem to effect us very strongly- the 3 of us all are noted as being LSD hardheads, we also all get very limited visuals; the mindfuck is there with a vengance though. I think that we are also capable of abusing LSD in a way that most people aren't though- I have noticed that we could take it much more just like a 'recreational drug' than most other people could. Maybe we got nothing out of it but told ourselves we did. Maybe that's what normal people do. Maybe it did 'treat' us, in that we are all high-functioning, not on medication and not involuntary treatment- but then again I'm sure a lot of people would view us as a cancer hiding within society, drugs have helped us disguise the cancer. What I consider consider treatment is most definately what you consider treatment. Normal people harbour a lot of fear of people with ASPD and want them to be normal- most people with ASPD consider this a product of normal peoples jealousy/secret desire to be ASPD, so you can't win.
Dissociatives seem to be much more theraputic than traditional psychedelics- they seem to effect us much more strongly, though we all seem to enjoy and 'handle' the dissociative experience more than normal people. I think that Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy is probably the best possibility for 'treatment' for people with ASPD, but once again I think that most people within the psychiatric profession would viciously oppose my reasoning as intellectualised drug-seeking behaviour. There is no cure for ASPD because there is no desire to be cured, you can;t fix something that isn't broken- something isn't broken just because you don't like it.
To be honest I think that this thread should be locked, most people don't have the knowledge or insight to be able to contribute anything sensible. It's just going to be a couple of people arguing over what exactly a 'psychopath' is and a bunch of comments about how potentially dangerous it could be to give someone with ASPD psychedelics without any real life proof or experience.
I don't know if anyone will understand any of this, or if I contrbibuted anything.
