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A 4 page book review that draws extensively on a review of Robert Hare’s book Without Conscience by Stephen Wormth. The writer also offers a personal opinion of this text on psychopaths and the book’s value to the reading public. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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persuasively that psychopaths and people with antisocial personality disorder (APD) are not identical. Furthermore, not all psychopaths are criminals and not all criminals are psychopaths. His text is interwoven with
personal narratives of his experience, which makes it highly readable and accessible by the general reader. However, his insight into defiant behavior and specifically the characteristics of the glib, socially-skilled
but totally without conscience psychopath should also be interesting to any psychology students or professional. Hare discusses the cases that he has handled and his research, as well as
famous psychopaths with whom the public is aware, such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmar and the fictional Hannibal Lecter. One of the most fascinating aspects of this text for Hares
fellow professionals is his description of developing his assessment tool, the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL). Hares research shows extensive validation for the reliability of this tool for identifying the psychopathic personality.
Another fascinating aspect of the book is that Hare apparently feels that psychopaths are born, rather than the result of their environments. He arrives at this conclusion rather obliquely
by describing individuals whose childhoods were apparently normal, but who resisted all interventions designed to guide them into socially acceptable norms. Hare concentrates on neurological and genetic research findings hat
offer some explanation for the egocentric and aggressive behavior of psychopathic individuals. As Hare locates deviant behavior in these factors, rather than environment, he argues that the best
way to approach intervention is to have an extremely structured environment that uses well-established and defined behavior management strategies. However, he warns parents and relatives not to expect a psychopath
to change fundamentally, as one of the defining characteristic of this type of personality is that these individuals are quite content with themselves and see no problem in relating to
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