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Robert Pickton as a child used to hide from his mother in pig carcasses.

Generally sociopaths throughout history have bad hygiene.

You might think, but wait, some killers are very tidy in appearance, and I will suggest to you to think about the dead bodies they knifed up and the blood they bathed in.

So to answer your question. No... I don't believe that exposing someone to unconditional love can change them from being a sociopath. It will only feed into their delusional narcissistic ego, turning them into a larger threat.

In theory tens of thousands of people in World War I were inflicted with a psychosis we call shell shock.

Many of them were cured with electro-shock therapy.

I will suggest to you that those troops did not fall victim to psychosis due to loud noises, but instead they fell victim to bacteria and virus that were festering in the trenches.

The electro-shock therapy did little more than kill the disease that had infected their minds.

This is a good documentary on how they were cured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7ehb8agWY

It also claims that world war I and shell shock were what gave rise to the psychologist as a professional entity.

Well, I don't think unconditional love is going to fix them.

I don't know what the parole rate is for serial killers, and so on. However, I am fairly sure they never reach parole status because somewhere inside them, they know they'd kill again if they got the chance.

EDIT: Very interesting answers so far. Thinking a little more about TC's response makes me wonder if going through similar trauma, similar to the trauma causal to a particular persons sociopathy, has any interesting effects on sociopaths. As opposed to unconditional love, which I do think sounds a little dramatic.

People are similar, but not the same. If it's possible it'd be based on the individual in question, not something general.

You don't wish to become better than you currently are?

I doubt it. I cannot imagine not being the way I am, I don't think that I could ever change. I don't ^want^ to ever change.

I don't think it works this way. I know stupid females who try to "love" the assholness out of their abusive partners, but they only get shit in return.

I think it depends on if you are born that way or suffer from trauma, violence and become that way. Think of even serial killers or gangsters or the mafia, etc. Generally speaking, unless they are born sociopaths , they love their families, kids or spouses.

How many times do you here about  Italian Mobsters listening to they mothers? Or serial killers having unsuspecting wives and kids. 

I suspect unconditional love can't hurt. Or support or kindness. They have programs to help prison sociopaths by giving them rewards for good behavior.

It may not cure, but I can't see how it would be bad.

I agree that empathy and understanding your effect on others can be taught.