What does it take
to be a criminal psychopath? Or even a person who works with these members of
society?
There is something different about
your brain and the brain of your neighborhood psychopath. It can be seen using
an MRI.
The subtitle to
this book is: ‘The Science of Those without Conscience. Dr. Kiehl details in
this book his studies in what makes a psychopath. He majored in the study of
people in maximum security prisons and postulated that if he could map the
brain using an MRI you could see there was a difference in areas of the brain
that may be the indication of problems.
This is in the psychology
genre. It will satisfy those people who enjoy reading stories of advances in
care of the mentally ill.
Kiehl details
his fascination with the brain of psychopaths. He mentions his studies to get
his degrees while working in the maximum security prisons with psychopaths, trying
to understand their thought processes. He
even went so far as to develop a mobile MRI machine to scan their brains.
Luckily less
than 1 percent of the general population fit this criteria.
I have been
interested in psychology for a while and found this book a bit disturbing. It
is not easy reading but still fascinating. It will meet the need of those who
follow this subject as part of their occupation.
I was sent
this book free from WaterBrooks Publishers
as a member of the blog reviewers. I was not
required to give a positive review and the opinions expressed are those of the
reviewer and not of the publisher.
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