Talk:Psychopathy

Placement of information on psychopathy according to the AMPD

Very recently, while reading this article, I stumbled upon the Sociopathy section under History. I was surprised to see it focuses heavily on the relation of psychopathy to the diagnostic conceptualization of antisocial PD as described in the Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders, which, incidentally I published an article on (<= the one linked to) two weeks ago. Naturally, I decided to wikilink to it, and I also made a few minor changes. This got me thinking, though, "why is this information included under Sociopathy?". I find it very unclear in which way this has anything to do with sociopathy, or even really the history of psychopathy, as the AMPD is a very recent model, introduced in the DSM-5. This is an important article and I don't want to do anything too radical, but wouldn't it make much more sense for the AMPD-related stuff to be included under Diagnosis, as the AMPD is notable in this regard due to it actually at least almost having psychopathy as a specifier to ASPD? BlockArranger (talk) 18:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

BlockArranger, I fully agree with you that it should be removed from history - sociopathy and into diagnosis. Lova Falk (talk) 14:17, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Done! I have moved the content and also made a few changes. BlockArranger (talk) 17:49, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Choice of imagery

It is notable that the image under "Criminality" features exclusively men of colour. Perhaps a more diverse image of a prison population could be chosen? Jestaniforth (talk) 14:51, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

I had never thought of that; perhaps spotting it requires an American eye, considering this likely also being more of an issue there. Anyway, obviously, an image must be captured before we can utilize it; furthermore, it needs to be freely available. If you are able to take a photo and release it at Wikimedia Commons or you find one there, feel free to suggest a specific image we should change it to. BlockArranger (talk) 22:49, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Article layout

While there are questions surrounding the medicalization of psychopathy, would there be any opposition to rearranging this article in accordance with WP:MEDSECTIONS, as I think that layout is rather good? I have not looked into this article's history thoroughly enough, but this would depend on whether the current state is the result of a weak push towards standardization or it having crumbled over time, or of a deliberate decision to do things differently in this article. BlockArranger (talk) 22:55, 19 October 2025 (UTC)