Actually, in medicine, <i>pathos</i> is actually interpreted more as &quot;disease&quot;, as in pathology which means the study or science of disease. And <i>psyche</i> as a medical term doesn&#x27;t refer to the soul, but to the self or conscious personality of a person, or to quote William James: &quot;Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and their conditions&quot;. [1]<p>I therefore have to respectfully disagree with you that it&#x27;s a bigoted term, because a more nuanced view might consider that the term Psychopathy can <i>also</i> be translated as &quot;disease of the mind&quot;.<p>The issues around psychopathy that were addressed in the DSM-V, from what I can see, were that the DSM-IV took a categorical approach to diagnosing the illness, whereas the DSM-V takes a dimensional approach, which addressed a number of problems with diagnosing the condition.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psychology.uchicago.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;cacioppo&#x2F;jtcreprints&#x2F;centenary.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;psychology.uchicago.edu&#x2F;people&#x2F;faculty&#x2F;cacioppo&#x2F;jtcre...</a>