The wisdom of psychopaths : what saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success
Renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton describes predominate personality traits of psychopaths and discusses ways in which psychopathy manifests itself in everyday life.
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- ISBN: 0385677189
- ISBN: 9780385677189
- Physical Description xix, 261 pages : illustrations
- Publisher [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-248), Internet addresses and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 32.00 |
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths : What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths : What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success
Psychopath. The word conjurs up images of serial killers, rapists, suicide bombers, gangsters. But think again: you could probably benefit from being a little more psychopathic yourself. Psychologist Kevin Dutton has made a speciality of psychopathy, and is on first-name terms with many notorious killers. But unlike those incarcerated psychopaths, and all those depicted in movies and crime fiction, most are not violent, he explains. In fact, says Prof Dutton, they have a lot of good things going for them. Psychopaths are fearless, confident, charismatic and focused--qualities tailor-made for success in today's society. The Wisdom of Psychopaths is an intellectual rollercoaster ride that combines lightning-hot science with unprecedented access to secret monasteries, Special Forces training camps, and high-security hospitals. In it, you will meet serial killers, war heroes, financiers, movie stars and attorneys--and discover that beneath the hype and popular characterization, psychopaths have something to teach us. Like the knobs on a mixing deck, psychopathy is graded. And finding the right combination of psychopathic traits, sampled and mixed at carefully calibrated volumes, can put us ahead of the game.