The Psychopath: Emotion and the BrainISBN: 978-0-631-23335-0
Hardcover
216 pages
September 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of figures and tables vi
Acknowledgements viii
1 What is Psychopathy? 1
2 The Background Facts 18
3 What is the Ultimate Cause of Psychopathy? 28
4 The Psychopathic Individual: The Functional Impairment 47
5 Cognitive Accounts of Psychopathy 67
6 Neural Accounts of Psychopathy 81
7 A Neurocognitive Account of Reactive Aggression 96
8 A Neurocognitive Account of Psychopathy 110
9 Conundrums and Conclusions 141
References 156
Subject index 187
Author index 196