Another article from the same person: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/25/magazine/patr...
And discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500240
And yet another from a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24806019
And discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500240
And yet another from a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24806019
Seeing her pop up again has made me lean towards the latter. I googled around again and discovered a reddit thread in "askpsychology": https://www.reddit.com/r/askpsychology/comments/jqewhk/does_...
It raises a few interesting concerns, for example:
* You'd expect someone with a degree in psychology to be unlikely to use the term "sociopath" so freely and without qualification or clarification.
* Her credentials seem questionable. There's no record of her actually having a PhD and no record of a dissertation in proquest. It's possible she did a "PsyD" program at California Graduate Institute.
* She appears to use clinical terminology incorrectly and make claims on her (now disappeared) blog that aren't backed up by research.
* Her real name appears to be Patricia Cagle, however she wrote articles under the name "Patric Gagne" for a column called Modern Love in NYT which apparently does not permit pseudonyms.