what exactly is a psycopath
The standard definition of psychopath is: 1  A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.haracteristics. No definition of psychopath will typically list all the characteristics of the psychopath. In his book The Mask Of Sanity (1941) Harvey Cleckley lists 16 characteristics. However, Robert Hare's psychopathy checklist is commonly used today for diagnosis.