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Psychopathy

Psychopathy is actually considered a personality disorder. Personality disorder is no measure of danger to society (consider antisocial personality disorder), more the underlying psychopathology. This is complicated by the ambiguity as to whether some disorders such as schizotypy are primarily personality issues or part of the psychosis spectrum. - Cyclosarin (talk) 04:17, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Cut the following:

Interestingly, a major change in the definition of Personality Disorder came when Psychiatrists went into Native American, Native African, and eastern communities and found that hearing voices, predicting the future, believing yourself to be capable of physical transformation, and even paranoia were often the result of social expectations and were not, therefore, formally "disorders".

Aside from being unsourced & weirdly capitalised, I'm not quite sure what this is getting at. These beliefs would indeed not be regarded as disorders in societies in which they are common, but we have already defined personality disorders in terms of societal norms further up in the article. I doubt that such a major change in the definition of personality disorders took place in the context this passage is suggesting. Wēāŝēīōīď^{Methinks it is a Weasel}

Borderline

Are borderlines in control of what they do, as Paul Elam claims; or are their perceptions and the resulting actions the result of subconscious defense mechanisms? Landmartian (talk) 15:14, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Point

What is the point of this article? Why is this in any way relevant to our mission? |₹Λ¥$€₦₦ ^{My life I trade in for your pain} 22:20, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Given that this is, de facto, a SJW-oriented wiki, anything that pertains to feminism, misogyny, etc. tends to be considered relevant. A diagnosis of BPD can be a basis by which people attempt to discredit, say, rape or domestic violence accusations (see Randi Kreger's Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder). Landmartian (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm still not comfortable with somebody discussing what is rape who's previously tried to describe legitimate rape. 0.--Miekal 16:02, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

If people want to expand the definition of rape to include consensual drunken sex, consensual sex that someone agreed to indifferently rather than enthusiastically, consensual sex in which one party was slightly underage, etc., that's fine, but then we'll need a new term to describe sex that was actually forced on someone against their will. "Legitimate rape" as used by the Republicans just means "legitimate case of rape" as opposed to a false accusation. Landmartian (talk) 17:11, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Harper v. Wallingford

With regard to this revert, Harper v. Wallingford is a good citation about the prevalence of ASPD among prisoners. Landmartian (talk) 19:55, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

It's a reference to an affidavit about a single prison. The actual affidavit would be a bit better but it would still be a professional opinion about a single prison rather than the result of a formal study.--SpecialFFrog (talk) 20:04, 2 June 2015 (UTC)