Handbook of Psychopathy

From: Canadian Psychology | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Handbook of Psychopathy, by Christopher J. Patrick (Ed.). The Guilford Press, 2007, 651 pages (ISBN: 978-1-59385-591-8, CA$36.00 Paperback)

Reviewed by HUGUES HERVÉ

DOI : 10.1037/0708-5591.49.1.70

Although accounts of psychopaths are found across time and cultures, it was not until the mid-to-late 20th century that psychopathy became an accepted clinical syndrome. It was Cleckley, in his influential book, The Mask of Sanity (1941/1988), who first introduced a well-defined set of symptoms anchored in rich case examples. It served as the basis for the development of the Hare Psychopathy ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

The Psychopath: Theory, Research and Practice
; ...historical overview of the construct of psychopathy and then works its way through a variety...balanced and informative overview of the psychopathy literature written by Dr. Hare. This...made since the emergence of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) as the gold...
Psychopathy and Alexithymia in female offenders
; ...and behavioural similarities between psychopathy and alexithymia, there have been few...their propensity for violence. Extent of psychopathy and alexithymia were assessed with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), and the Toronto...
The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the psychopath
; ...published. In attempting to understand psychopathy, one cannot help but study psychoanalytic...collection of psychoanalytic knowledge on psychopathy in one volume. Moreover, Meloy links...often forgotten in current treatises on psychopathy. As an example, I thought myself controversial...
Identification and management of psychopaths in court-mandated treatment programs.
; ...agents have an inaccurate definition of psychopathy and are unaware of what constitutes...This article examines the construct of psychopathy, its diagnosis criteria and management...discussed and cited below) who identify psychopathy as an important construct in criminology...
The Psychopath Electrified: Brain Potentials Implicate Paralimbic Abnormalities
; Psychopathy is a complex personality disorder with heterogeneous clinical presentation. Symptoms of psychopathy included interpersonal and affective traits, such as...is known about the assessment and classification of psychopathy, however relatively little is understood about the relevant...
Psychopathy and Canadian criminal proceedings: the potential for human rights abuses.
; ...psychiatric and psychological assessments of psychopathy. When mental health professionals are...expert testimony on the diagnosis of psychopathy has on judicial decision-making is important...testimony regarding the diagnosis of psychopathy has been associated with an increase...
The Psychopath: Theory, Research, and Practice.(Book review)
; ...The book consists of seven sections on psychopathy written by different authors, all of...generalizability of the construct, to subtypes of psychopathy, and end with practice concerns. As...According to Wong and Burt (p. 461), Psychopathy is a serious personality disorder marked...
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
; ...30 years of the author's research on psychopathy. The book is written in a sincere and...psychopaths. His development of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) may represent the single...become our ultimate understanding of psychopathy. Most of Hare's more recent research...
Response Modulation Deficits: Implications for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychopathy
; ...underlies the behavioral manifestations of psychopathy. Specifically, the automatic direction...behavior is the essential or core feature of psychopathy, as well as with the position that psychopathy reflects a specific deficit in the processing...
Child and adolescent psychopathy: stability and change.
; ...the concept of child and adolescent psychopathy and discusses the reasons why the concept...Past research has suggested that child psychopathy might be inapplicable to youth because...closely resemble the adult construct of psychopathy. Studies addressing the reliability...