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A psychopath sadist will get great pleasure from hiding the truth...

will enjoy slowly torturing you while they feel they have power and control...that they are super slick. It makes them feel like they are important. It's really the only way they can feel good it seems.

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sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Whispersindreams
Isn't one or the other enough? I mean a person who was a sadist would get pleasure from tormenting a victim.Equally a psychopath would presumably do so in some way but both seems overkill.
Best wishes
:)

Whispersindreams

@sogdianrock No, it's definitely both.

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Whispersindreams
ok I do not know anything about either thankfully - although I have come across sociopathy at work and socially.
Best wishes
:)

SW-User

@sogdianrock The two go together. Sociopaths (formerly known as psychopaths) tend to be sadists

sogdianrock · 61-69, M

hi Literaturegirl
Thanks for the heads up.
Best wishes
:)

Whispersindreams

@SW-User @sogdianrock

Actually it's not outdated nor the same thing

google webmd mental sociopath-psychopath-difference

SW-User

@Whispersindreams I'm a psychology lecturer /professor. Psychopaths are now called sociopaths. Don't rely on Google.

Whispersindreams

@SW-User psychology today is no good either?

Whispersindreams

@SW-User
Scott A. Bonn Ph.D.
Scott A. Bonn Ph.D.
Wicked Deeds
How to Tell a Sociopath from a Psychopath
Understanding important distinctions between criminal sociopaths and psychopaths
Posted Jan 22, 2014

SW-User

@Whispersindreams Depends. Different writers. Refer to a professional journal instead maybe.
Labels and diagnoses change, are updated

Whispersindreams

@SW-User Well social science isn't really a science and is bound to have a bunch of experts disagreeing about the very basics.

SW-User

@Whispersindreams A PhD. As said, different writers. Refer to a professional journal, rather than a magazine. It's an opinion rather than grounded in evidrnce. Maybe even look at the Bible of the Psychiatry profession, the DSM

SW-User

@Whispersindreams May be see journals grounded in evidence, and the DSM
But we're agreed about the sadism whatever term is being used

Whispersindreams

@SW-User If you do a search there are a lotta people with that opinion. Makes you wonder how they got their degrees huh? There is no opinion in real science.

SW-User

Social scientists still use the scientific method to undertake research. But let's face it, even "hard" sciences like physics is full of disention, disagrerment. However, what you say as part of your question seems 100% accurate to me