The Psychopath Inside

“Compelling essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy.” — M. E. Thomas author of Confessions of a Sociopath. For his first fifty-eight years James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor he’d been raised in a loving family married his high school sweetheart and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a shocking truth that would not only disrupt his personal and professional life but would lead him to question the very nature of his own identity.While researching serial killers he uncovered a pattern in their brain scans that helped explain their cold and violent behavior. Astonishingly his own scan matched that pattern. And a few months later he learned that he was descended from a long line of murderers. Fallon set out to reconcile the truth about his own brain with everything he knew as a scientist about the mind behavior and personality.