Pathology

The Basic Myths About Criminals
Inside the Criminal Mind
by Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.
IN NEARLY A HALF-CENTURY, little has changed in terms of deeply ingrained beliefs about the causes of crime. In the classic, still often performed, 1957 musical West Side Story, Stephen Sondheim parodied what then was the current thinking about juvenile

The Seventh Sense
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us
by Martha Stout, Ph.D.
This morning, Joe, a thirty-year-old attorney, is running five minutes late for an extremely important meeting that, with or without him, will start promptly at eight o'clock. He needs to keep up a good impression with the more senior members of his firm

Twenty Questions To Get You Started
Am I Okay?
by Michael B First, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D.
When you go to a doctor for a routine physical checkup, part of the examination will include what is called a 'review of systems.' The doctor asks you a comprehensive series of questions covering everything about your health from head to toe in order

Twenty Questions To Get You Started, Part 2
Am I Okay?
by Michael B First, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D.
Question #5: Are you haunted by an extremely traumatic event from your past? When people are exposed to a terribly stressful event, they often cannot get the haunting images of it out of their daytime thoughts or nighttime dreams and may become unhinged

Dunblane
The Anatomy of Motive
by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
I just happen to be in Scotland when I hear about the massacre. It's the morning of Wednesday, March 13, 1996, and I'm in a television studio in Glasgow as part of a promotional tour for my book Mindhunter, at the invitation of our British publisher.