The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Synopsis

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist kevin dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has more in common with a ted bundy who kills for pleasure than we may wish to admit, and that a mugger in a dimly lit parking lot may well, in fact, have the same nerveless poise as a titan of industry.