Dutton, Kevin.

The wisdom of psychopaths : what saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success / Kevin Dutton. - 1st ed. - New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - xix, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-248) and 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.

9780374291358 (hbk.) 0374291357 (hbk.)

2012021530


Success.
Psychopaths.
Neurosciences--Research.

BF637.S8 / D88 2012

155.2/32