The Wisdom of Psychopaths

Psychopath. No sooner is the word out than images of murderers rapists suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds. But unlike their box-office counterparts not all psychopaths are violent or even criminal. This title reveals a shocking truth beneath the hype and the popular characterisation psychopaths have something to teach us.|Psychopath. No sooner is the word out than images of murderers rapists suicide bombers and gangsters flash across our minds. But unlike their box-office counterparts not all psychopaths are violent or even criminal. This title reveals a shocking t...|Dr Kevin Dutton is a researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford and a member of the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) research group. He regularly publishes in leading international scientific journals and speaks at conferences around the world. He is the author of the acclaimed Flipnosis: The Art of Split-Second Persuasion.|An original and thought-provoking study|Goes beyond cliché to view the world through a psychopath's eyes … this book knows how to get under the skin|The Wisdom of Psychopaths is a surprising absorbing and perceptive book set out in briskly readable prose and with gripping anecdotes. I found it altogether fascinating.|Kevin Dutton is a Special Forces style psychologist. Daring. Original. All-action. No nonsense.|Dutton tackles an elusive important and much neglected aspect of the mind; our personality. He presents some highly original insights and does so in a provocative and humorous style