This paper gives a conventional description of behavior that is traditionally described with the static term 'psychopathic'. The main point made by the author is that these people should be treated by courts and mental institutions as if they were psychotic, though their disturbances do not, by present classification, fall in the category of psychosis. It is easy to agree with this

suggestion; however, there are serious doubts that anything is gained by substituting the term 'semantic psychosis' or 'semantic dementia' for psychopathic personality. Psychoanalysts know that the difficulties of these patients certainly are not rooted in the superfificial 'semantic' level but stem from far deeper layers of the personality.