You can't: Making a psychiatric diagnosis is very difficult. Psychiatrists spend 4 years learning how to do it. The two diagnoses you listed are particularly difficult to make.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Careful history: Psychopaths are what are known in the dsm-iv-tr as individuals with antisocial personality disorder. This condition, unfortunately, is quite common, but very difficult to treat. "split personality" is a more controversial diagnosis and is known by dissociative identity disorder in the dsm. It is theorized to result from traumas that cause the patient to withdrawal from a very painful situation.
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