Psychopathy
A Very Short Introduction

Before reading this book, I didn’t know what psychopathy was. The book provides a solid definition based on clinical psychology: psychopaths lack empathy, sympathy, and guilt to such an extent that it affects their behavior and becomes an issue for others. In the studies cited normal people might no......more

Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction reminds me of another volume in the series, Autism: A Very Short Introductions, in that our knowledge of the subject is imperfect and incomplete and the Introduction is largely a statement of what we happen to know at the moment of the book’s publication. I app......more

Ever since I first learned about what Psychopathy really means, and the prevalence of Psychopaths in the general population, I have been fascinated by this topic. My fascination is primarily practical, as I have had the misfortune to know and deal with many highly malicious Psychopaths over the cour......more

A reasonable introduction by an expert in the field, but few surprises about the state of current research.......more

It’s difficult to review these books critically when you know next to nothing about the area. Overall, it seems like a sufficient brief of what we know, and still want to know, about psychopathy. In my opinion, one of the most interesting facets of psychopathy covered in the book is the tendency to......more