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The elephant in the room, for viewers if not the characters, is that at 47, Andrew Scott is too old for the fledgling sociopath that Tom Ripley is supposed to be in the first of Highsmith’s novels in the series.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
As a sociopath, these feelings come less easily to me than inherent emotions like joy and sadness.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
Patric Gagne’s Sociopath tells how the writer (who herself has been diagnosed as a sociopath) learned to stop treating her inability to identify her feelings by committing petty crimes, and to start trying talk therapy and building strong relationships instead.
—Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
This contributed to a unique type of anxiety, a stress associated with the inner conflict some believe compels sociopaths to behave in a way that is damaging.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
That is what the sociopath experience is almost all the time.
—David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Nolan is mesmerizing as Augustus, a master impresario and sociopath of both charm and menace.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
Not all of this works: The show can’t seem to decide whether Rupert is an unforgivable sociopath, or just the misunderstood victim of a domineering mother(*).
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
Experts claim that psychopaths and sociopaths share similar characteristics.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024
As a sociopath, these feelings come less easily to me than inherent emotions like joy and sadness.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
Patric Gagne’s Sociopath tells how the writer (who herself has been diagnosed as a sociopath) learned to stop treating her inability to identify her feelings by committing petty crimes, and to start trying talk therapy and building strong relationships instead.
—Vulture, 2 Jan. 2024
This contributed to a unique type of anxiety, a stress associated with the inner conflict some believe compels sociopaths to behave in a way that is damaging.
—Patric Gagne, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
That is what the sociopath experience is almost all the time.
—David Marchese Photo Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Nolan is mesmerizing as Augustus, a master impresario and sociopath of both charm and menace.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
Not all of this works: The show can’t seem to decide whether Rupert is an unforgivable sociopath, or just the misunderstood victim of a domineering mother(*).
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2024
Experts claim that psychopaths and sociopaths share similar characteristics.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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“Sociopath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociopath. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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sociopath
noun
so·cio·path
ˈsō-sē-ə-ˌpath 
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
: a sociopathic individual
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