The wisdom of psychopaths : what saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
155.232/DUTTON,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374291358 (alk. paper) :, 0374291357 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Preface -- Scorpio rising -- Will the real psychopath please step forward? -- Carpe noctem -- The wisdom of psychopaths -- Make me a psychopath -- The seven deadly wins -- Supersanity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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