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One of the theater’s more prominent sociopaths gets a makeover in “Hedda,” director Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of “Hedda Gabler,” with an approach that opens up the play—and an interpretive can of worms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Psychologists, too, make this mistake, believing that sociopaths are not strategic but, rather, mentally ill, because they were traumatized in childhood.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024

It's not just false to say the childless are "sociopaths," as Vance has repeatedly asserted.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024

She mimicked the emotions she lacked to fit into a world where novels and films tended to depict sociopaths as violent and soulless transgressors treading the fringes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2024

But, except for Harry, all of us, including my father, had been called sociopaths at some time in our lives.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson