Sherlock : Emphatic or Phsycopath

Sherlock : A study in pink

     Sherlock is truly an amazing person. He can easily described a person and their background by just looking at their appearance.He can solve mystery easily and something that a normal person can't do. However, his personality is something people love to hate or even people really hate it. Is Sherlock an emphatic person?Or is he just another psychopath?

       In the episode A study in pink, the Sergeant Sally Donovan doesn't like Sherlock, even telling Dr. Watson to stay away from him and calling him a psychopath. Many people around Sherlock are unsure what to make of his behavior. They also brand him as sociopaths, psychopathic, or just machine-like, because he does not react normally to other people’s feelings.However, Sherlock described himself as "a high function sociopath". He actually is not a sociopath also. When he first met Dr. Watson, the doctor were surprised on how Sherlock can know about his background. He is also surprised when Sherlock knows that he is the one who shot the criminal. 

      So how can he do all this?This is because Sherlock is an empathic person. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand what others are thinking- to "read" from their words and behavior what they really mean as apposed what they explicitly say, and truly understand how they think and feel about a situation.Other than that, the way he solves the crime is by being empathy, being in the victims head and also the criminal head. Because of this empathy, sometimes Sherlock protects the suspects because he believes that they are innocent. So, it is true that Sherlock is not a psychopath nor a sociopath, he is actually an emphatic person.