Jan Go\u0142\u0119biowski<\/strong>*<\/sup>: I think the key issue here was the influence of the local media and American mass culture. The term \u201cpsychopath committing a crime\u201d itself is very \u201cclickable,\u201d and eye-catching. Americans are at the forefront of this media marketing. They quickly use all these drastic and shocking stories, making the term \u201cpsychopath\u201d commonly understood as a synonym for a brutal serial killer, often associated with American TV series. The media, entertainment, and film industries maximize the monetization of such stories, and through all these pop-culture productions we can get the impression that all psychopathic murderers or criminals are Americans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The media, cultural image of a psychopath \u2013 how much truth is there in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As far as professional terminology is concerned, the term \u201cpsychopathy\u201d is no longer used today, and does not appear in official classifications of mental disorders and diseases. We are talking, for example, about dissociative personality disorder<\/strong>. This terminology is also used in teams created by psychiatrists when they deal with the diagnosis of a given case. Psychopathy, in the medical and clinical sense, is considered one of the dissocial personality disorders. Americans use the term \u201cantisocial personality disorder.\u201d A \u201cpsychopath\u201d is nowadays a more literary, media term, under which there is often a very colloquial or stereotypical understanding that may have little to do with reality and what the characteristics of a person with an actual disorder are<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We recommend:<\/strong> Evil in Culture: Why Do We Need Tales About the Dark Side of Man and the World?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Psychopaths](\"https:\/\/holistic.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/psychopaths-and-crime-2-1024x576.jpg\")
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