Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction

by Essi Viding

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198802269
• ISBN13: 9780198802266
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.7"