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The term was introduced in an attempt to operationalize the psychopathy used in the 19th century. According to the National Collaborating Center for Mental Health, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the British Psychological Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2010), Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, created the classification of disorders of personality in 1905. In 1923, Kurt Schneider classified psychopathy as a personality disorder. In these times, individuals with psychopathic personalities were those who had abnormalities and suffered from them (National Collaborating Center for Mental Health et al., 2010). It was not until 1939 that David Henderson, a Scottish psychiatrist, defined the foundation of the term antisocial personality disorder. National Collaborating Center for Mental Health et al (2010) states that they defined it as "individuals with 'psychopathic states' as those who conform to a certain intellectual standard but who exhibit lifelong conduct disorders of an antisocial or social nature" ( page 15). The DSM-I classified this disorder as sociopathy, but it was later defined as antisocial personality disorder in the 1968 and 1968 DSM-II. 1968.