I do not mean this as a slight against psychology or psychiatry, for, as fields of study and clinical work, they do much for the plight of those who suffer from mental illness. And, from what I understand, ‘psychopathy’ has never been an easy diagnosis to make, nor necessarily a helpful one, nor one that cannot include so many traits or symptoms, depending on the patient, that it would seem too broad or slippery a category to be applied liberally, or with much confidence, for it often collapses many conditions or disorders into a single category that by now is susceptible, at least among the general populace, when they hear mention of it, to the deleterious effects that our culture’s mythologizing of it (in movies and novels and so forth) has produced. Which isn’t to say that the category itself has no validity as a diagnostic tool, among professionals, for I’m sure that it does, but only that it has been romanticized so thoroughly, through fictionalized treatments of the subject to which it pertains, that perhaps it has been degraded.