[joshuas-mommy]

What is psuedo-psychopathy?

[IowaFarmGal]

Hello joshuas-mommy! Welcome to Psych Central. I never heard that term before. Now I'm curious too. I hope someone knows.

[Perna]

Are you sure you don't mean "pseudo psychosis"?

That's when it looks like psychosis (a medical/chemical disorder: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002520/) but is a factitious or malingering disorder instead ("faked" either intentionally or otherwise); http://www.dmacc.edu/Instructors/tkw...atoformDSM.pdf

If you really mean pseudo psychopathy, that sounds like it would any psychiatric disorder that was a somaform, factitious, or malingering one.

[Hellion]

nevermind I guess I am not sure, I read the word wrong.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by joshuas-mommy

What is psuedo-psychopathy?

here in America this is now called Anti social personality disorder in the DSM.

[CleverlyDisguised]

I am probably a latent psychopath. Could that be what you mean. For example I have not ever committed a criminal offense, but I have just taken three on line tests and scored at the very top of the scale or very high for psychopathology.

Pseudo psycho, by definition, means a false psycho which really couldn't be, because pseudo means false, therefore a false psychopath would not be a psychopath at all.

Hope that helps.

[Emma 2]

I've heard it used in reference to people with frontal lobe injuries .
It seems that pseudopsychopathology refers to any psychopathology caused by damage to the frontal lobe, as opposed to psychopathology caused by other sources (chemical imbalances, etc)