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Author Dutton, Kevin.

Title The wisdom of psychopaths : what saints, spies, and serial killers can teach us about success / Kevin Dutton.

Imprint New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  155.232 D954w 2012    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xix, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Contents Preface -- Scorpio rising -- Will the real psychopath please step forward? -- Carpe noctem -- The wisdom of psychopaths -- Make me a psychopath -- The seven deadly wins -- Supersanity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject Success.
Psychopaths.
Neurosciences -- Research.
ISBN 9780374291358 (alk. paper)
0374291357 (alk. paper)

 
    
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