
Psychopathy
A Very Short Introduction
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Narrated by:
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Esther Wane
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By:
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Essi Viding
Psychopathy is a personality disorder that has long captured the public imagination. Newspaper column inches have been devoted to murderers with psychopathic features, and we also encounter psychopaths in films and books. Individuals with psychopathy are characterized in particular by lack of empathy and guilt, manipulation of other people and, in the case of criminal psychopathy, premeditated violent behavior. They are dangerous and can incur immeasurable emotional, psychological, physical, and financial costs to their victims and their families.
Despite the public fascination with psychopathy, there is often a very limited understanding of the condition, and several myths about psychopathy abound. For example, people commonly assume that all psychopaths are sadistic serial killers or that all violent and antisocial individuals are psychopaths. Yet, research shows that most psychopaths are not serial killers, and, equally, there are plenty of antisocial and violent offenders who are not psychopaths.
Viding explores the latest genetic, neuroscience, and psychology evidence in order to illuminate why psychopaths behave and develop the way they do, and considers whether it is possible to prevent or even treat psychopathy.
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Insightful
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She outlines some problems with current research. She is not over dramatic.
She also credits her PHD students.
Viding is encouraging and unpretentious.
This is the best introductory book on the topic. Don’t waste your time with anything else.
Best introduction on the topic possible.
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Very informative but extremely redundant
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Author writes, "No one is born a psychopath."
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I do also think the author could have been blunter in areas about how class and gender shape one's potential to become psychopathic, as it it predominately a masculine failing. It is clear the true psycho in "The Thin Blue Line", for example, became psychopathic because of his economic and gendered background.
As to the author's parting question: how to cure psychopathy, if "nobody is born a psychopath" as she says both here and elsewhere (in a terribly cheap penal-porn pop-doco), then i think we can. I think that Literature could be a good starting place. Dose potentially psychopathic children and teenagers with sensibility laden literature like Jane Eyre. They need to learn how to sympathise with others, and literature does this more than anything else. I would also suggest reducing TV and Film intake, as while individuals may be psychopathic, the entertainment industry seems to be psychopathic in nature.
Listen, Reflect, Listen Again.
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