1915

American Psychiatrists place psychopathy “at the center of their social agenda, regularly chronicling the depredations of exemplary psychopaths in support of their contention that what appeared to the lay person to be social issues were in fact properly psychiatric concerns. . . Once delineated as a condition, psychopathy quickly displaced feeblemindedness as the ground from which psychiatrists would choose to speak in the national discourse about defectiveness” (Lunbeck, 65-66).