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OMG!!! just finished I dont want to kill you

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dhalagirl:

--- Quote from: Peter Ahlstrom on July 26, 2011, 04:54:50 PM ---I assumed it meant he was cured for good.

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That his sociopathy was cured for good?  Hmm...I didn't think that sociopathy was something that could be cured.

Peter Ahlstrom:
They cured one in House, when it was a symptom of a different underlying condition.

I thought the implication in Dan's book was that John's sociopathic tendencies were a result of trauma from his father abandoning him, rather than an incurable genetic condition.

dhalagirl:
I've always thought of it as being like autism in that the brain is unable to communicate with the empathetic part of the brain.  I might be mistaken though.  I haven't studied it.

Fellfrosch:
True sociopathy is a combination of physiology and emotional trauma.

dhalagirl:
Ahh.  So a true sociopath can be treated (for the emotional trauma) but they'll always have those tendencies.  Got it.

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