I don’t think I’ve ever lectured about psychopathy without having someone ask if a sociopath is the same thing. The answer, it happens, is “kind of”.
The term “sociopathy” was popularised by George Partridge, an American psychologist, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. At a time when people were arguing over what the term “psychopath” should mean, Partridge’s point was to emphasise that