Psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychiatrists discuss psychopathy and human evil / edited by Sheldon Itzkowitz and Elizabeth F. Howell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Itzkowitz, Sheldon, editor.

Howell, Elizabeth F., 1946- editor.

Series:

Psychoanalysis in a new key book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil--Psychological aspects.

Good and evil.

Psychopaths.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Evil - along with its incarnation in human form, the psychopath - remains underexamined in the psychological and psychoanalytic literature. Given current societal issues ranging from increasingly violent cultural divides to climate change, it is imperative that the topics of psychopathy and human evil be thoughtfully explored. The book brings together social scientists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts to discuss the psychology of psychopaths, and the personal, societal and cultural destruction they leave as their legacy. Chapters address such questions as: Who are psychopaths? How do they think and operate? What causes someone to commit psychopathic acts? And are psychopaths born or created? Psychopaths leave us shocked and bewildered by behavior that violates the notions of common human trust and bonding, but not all psychopaths commit crimes. Because of their unique proclivities to deceive, seduce, and dissemble, they can hide in plain sight; especially when intelligent and highly educated. This latter group comprise the "successful or corporate" psychopaths, frequently found in boardrooms of corporations and amongleaders of national movements or heads of state. Addressing a wide range of topics including slavery, genocide, the Holocaust, the individual as psychopath, the mind of the terrorist, sexual abuse, the role of attachment and the neurobiology of psychopathy, this book will appeal to researchers of human evil and psychopathy from a range of different disciplines and represents essential reading for psychotherapists and clinical psychologists.

Contents:

<P>Acknowledgements</P><B><P></B>Editors and Contributors</P><B><P></P></B><P>Brief Descriptions of Chapters by Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D. & Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.</P><B><P></P></B><P>Introduction by Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter One: Psychopathy and Human Evil: An Overview by Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Two: Outsiders to Love: The Psychopathic Character and Dilemma by Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Three: Sexual Desire, Violent Death, and the True Believer by J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Four: The Place of Psychopathy Along the Spectrum of Negative Personality Types. by Michael H. Stone, MD</P><P></P><P>Chapter Five: The Perpetrators: The Receivers and Transmitters of Evil by Valerie Sinason, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Six: The Other Within: White Shame, Native-American Genocide by Sue Grand, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Seven: American Hierarchy: White, "Good"; Black, "Evil" by Cleonie White, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Eight: Sympathy for the Devil: Evil, Social Process, and Intelligibility by Robert Prince, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Nine: Die Hitler In UNS (The Hitler in US): Evil and The Psychoanalytic Situation by Emily A. Kuriloff, Psy.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Ten: Dissociation and Counterdissociation: Nuanced and Binary Perceptions of Good and Evil by Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Eleven: Dancing With The Devil: A Personal Essay On My Encounters with Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, PhD.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Twelve: The Developmental Roots of Psychopathy: An Attachment Perspective by Adriano Schimmenti, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Thirteen: The Murder of Laius by Neville Symington, Ph.D.</P><P></P><P>Chapter Fourteen: Psychopaths and the Neurobiology of Evil by Nathalie Gauthier, M.A., Tabitha Methot-Jones, Angela Book, Ph.D., & J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.</P>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-55749-3

0-429-55302-1

0-429-26242-6

9780429262425

OCLC:

1127847264