Definitions of disheartened on the Web:   * demoralized: made less hopeful or enthusiastic; desperate demoralized people looking for work; felt discouraged by the â¦magnitude of the problem ... wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn  * Deprived of hope, despairing en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disheartened.
He believes that psychopathy is more of a category than a dimension. This means that someone either is or is not a psychopath. Notably, other researchers disagree and believe that psychopathic traits fall on a continuum. How common is psychopathy? Hare estimates that about 50 - 75% of the prison population meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder but only 15-25% exceed the cut-off point for psychopathy. Hare also estimates that psychopaths make up about 1% of the general population.
Neither psychopathy nor sociopathy is included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM) as a disorder; although they are acknowledged to be generally included in the criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD).