The wisdom of psychopaths : what saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374291358 (alk. paper) : 0374291357 (alk. paper) |