The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the psychopath

From: American Journal of Psychotherapy | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

J. REID MELOY, ED.: The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2001, 368 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-88163-310-0.

This book needed to be published. In attempting to understand psychopathy, one cannot help but study psychoanalytic insights on the topic. Yet, modern research and texts tend to go in other directions. Moreover, even light reading within psychoanalytic concepts on the topic quickly brings the realization that some of the best concepts have been unduly brushed aside by newer ideas and the flow of time.

In The Mark of Cain, Meloy, a ...

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