The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
- ISBN-10
- 0374291357
- ISBN-13
- 9780374291358
- Series
- The Wisdom of Psychopaths
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-16
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Kevin Dutton
Description
An analysis of what can be learned from psychopaths incorporates advances in brain scanning and neuroscience to illustrate the scale of mental health that impacts everyone, the role of functional psychopathic behaviors in success, and the misunderstandings that impact treatments.
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- 2013-09-03
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- 2012-10-16
- 256 pages
- Paperback
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- 2012-10-16
- 288 pages
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