Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Essi Viding
English | January 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 0198802269 | 136 pages | True EPUB | 2.95 MB
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.