What is the difference between being a sociopath and having narcisistic personality disorder?

In short a sociopath typically develops from someone who has Antisocial Personality Disorder.

A narcissist has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

A sociopath doesn't care at all what people think about them.

A sociopath is incapable of empathy.

A narcissist has extremely low self esteem and cares far too much about what people think of them so they seek out positive attention and praise in order to feed their facade.

If you need more information let me know.

Have you never heard of Google and Wikipedia? Why are you asking this here?

I'll give you this: both despise the people and consider themselves to be above it. But, a narcissistic personality needs society to validate his or hers qualities. A sociopath doesn't want the society.

A sociopath is unlikely to be a doctor because he doesn't care about helping people. A WHOLE LOT of doctors do have narcissistic traits, some even to a point of actually having the narcissistic personality disorder.

But really, read the damn articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personal...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopathy

narcissista are usually pretty boring to talk to b/c they will only talk about themselves or what ever they want to talk about. if you try to change the topic they will pretend they didnt hear you..

sociopaths test people's weaknesses. they will try to push you to your limit, makee you uncomfortable. whoever isn't scared of them gets their respect, somewhat.