The Psychopath Whisperer: the Science of Those Without Conscience
Kiehl, Kent, AIn the bestselling tradition of The Psychopath Test and The Sociopath Next Door, a compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths in our lives, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy. Why do psychopaths behave the way they do? Is it the result of their environment--how they were raised--or is there a genetic component to their lack of conscience? This is the question Kent A. Kiehl, a protégée of famed psychopath researcher Robert Hare, was determined to answer as he began his career. Kiehl, who created the world's first mobile MRI scanner to study psychopaths in prison populations, has collected the world's largest repository of forensic neuroscience. Over the last decade, he has scanned the brains of more than five hundred psychopaths, and three thousand other offenders. Over the course of The Psychopath Whisperer, we follow the scientific bread crumbs that Kiehl uncovered...