Psychopathy
- ISBN-10
- 0198802269
- ISBN-13
- 9780198802266
- Series
- Psychopathy
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Essi Viding
Description
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 characterised in particular by lack of empathy and guilt, manipulation of other people and, in the case of criminal psychopathy, premeditated violent behaviour. 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. This Very Short Introduction gives an overview of how we can identify individuals with or at risk of developing psychopathy, and how they differ from other people who display antisocial behavior. Essi Viding also 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior
By Theodore Millon, Erik Simonsen, Morten Birket-SmithThis volume would be of interest to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, clinicians working in correctional facilities, health care settings, private practice and community-based programs as well as researchers and students.
-
Handbook of Psychopathy, Second Edition
By Christopher J. PatrickThere are special circumstances that arise in relation to psychopathy/risk management when the population of interest is youthful offenders. Forth (2005) has described the role of the PCL:YV in risk management as follows: “This ...
-
Psychopathy: Theory and Research
By Robert D. HarePsychopathy: Theory and Research
-
The Psychopathy of Everyday Life: How Antisocial Personality Disorder Affects All of Us
By Martin Kantor MDThe Psychopathy of Everyday Life helps you decide. Kantor spotlights and disproves widely-held beliefs about mild psychopathy, then shows us methods to deal with such people, and such traits in ourselves.
-
Violence and Psychopathy
By Adrian Raine, Jose SanmartinA key thrust of this book, and a stance shared by all of its contributors, is the notion that violence and psychopathy simply cannot be understood solely, or even fundamentally, in terms of social and environmental forces and influences.
-
Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society
By Robert D. Hare, D.J. Cooke, Adelle E. ForthMy second conclusion is that, by any standard (save perhaps perfection), psychopathy is of great practical importance in the assessment of risk for violence. Even on its own, the PCL-R predicts future violence reliably better than ...
-
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
By Robert D. HareSherrie Williamson (1991). Cohesion and Coherence in the Speech of Psychopaths. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. ... Clifford Linedecker (1991). Night Stalker. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 202–203. Robert Mason Lee.
-
Psychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implications
By Adrian Raine, Andrea L. GlennThe text clearly assesses the conclusions that can and cannot be drawn from existing biological research, and highlights the pressing considerations this research demands.
-
Handbook of Psychopathy, First Edition
By Christopher J. PatrickHowever, in general, an edge can be given to contemporary risk assessment instruments whose design purpose was predictive accuracy. Psychopathy and Violence Risk Management There has been a decided conceptual movement in the risk ...
-
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists and Psychiatrists Discuss Psychopathy and Human Evil
By Elizabeth F. Howell, Sheldon ItzkowitzAddressing a wide range of topics including slavery, genocide, the Holocaust, the individual as psychopath, the mind of the terrorist, sexual abuse, the role of attachment and the neurobiology of psychopathy, this book will appeal to ...