![]() ![]() Psychotic symptoms are not typically observed in individuals with psychopathy. ![]() Psychosis presents itself in disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that leads to symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thoughts. Importantly, psychosis and psychopathy are not the same. ![]() Pinel described a type of “moral insanity” that occurred in the absence of confusion in mind and intellect, differentiating these cases from patients with psychotic behaviors. The term was used to describe individuals who had no intellectual problems but a profound deficit in behavior typified by marked cruelty, antisocial acts, alcohol and drug use, irresponsibility, and immorality. It was Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) (Figure 1), the founding father of modern psychiatry, who first described a group of patients afflicted with mania sans délire (insanity without delirium)(Pinel, 1801). Figure 1: Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) was first to describe patients with psychopathic traits. ![]()
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