[uncitizen]

I imagine here psychosis refers not to going bonkers enough to rampage but a clinical "loss of contact with reality."

In most cases it would be confined to "losing contact with reality", but in some cases it will result in a psychotic episode, such as when a woman drowns her own baby. I'm no doctor, but i've read a lot on this subject.

A clinical psychotic episode wouldn't turn a person into a psychopath.

Does a single pyschotic episode really make someone technically a psychopath?

[Dark Skies]

Does a single pyschotic episode really make someone technically a psychopath?

As I understand it, they are completely unrelated. For the most part the word "psychopath" has been replaced with the word "sociopath," both used to describe a person who is devoid of conscience.

Someone suffering a psychotic episode would most likely be a sufferer of depression or bipolar disorder or other disorder that was in a sufficiently disraught state so as to be delusion.

Psychotics don't usually commit murder...though they may harm their children if they are severly depressed or delusional or if they believe they are hearing voices.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

nO.

Psychotic and psychopath are not the same at all.