Es un libro interesante para los amantes de este tema. A pesar de ser un libro de divulgación general, hay conceptos técnicos y información densa. I do kinda wish this book had gone into a bit more depth: psychopathy as a neurological state, psychopathy as a psychological mechanism, psychopathy as a concept and world view, its role in our culture, and so forth. Instead of choosing his model and going with it, or examining the various dimensions in turn, the author seems to get bogged down in defining the term, itself. (I, myself, kinda prefer the term "sociopath.")(Sounds less...murdery.)(But I digress.)

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths

Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds. One is that psychopathy can not be treated; this is a gut punch to read if your child has been diagnosed as such. Also, the author believes that since there is no cure at this time, that if you are diagnosed as one, that should have a major bearing on whether you get parole or not if you are a criminal psychopath. In Hare's early career, he worked in a prison and had his first personal experience with a psychopath named Ray. Hare worked as a psychologist at the prison and was eager to develop relationships with inmates so that he could effectively rehabilitate them. Ray was Hare's very first patient and for the eight months that Hare worked with him, Ray repeatedly manipulated and used Dr. Hare. Hare uses his own experiences, antidotes from others, as well as interviews from notorious serial killers to warn readers about what psychopaths are like and how they operate.Hare does not offer much hope for the treatment of psychopaths, since he points out the condition seems to start in childhood, if not at birth, and no form of behavioral therapy actually changes them: at best, you might convince a psychopath to "play by the rules" so long as they are convinced it's in their best interests.

47 Bible verses about Conscience - Online Bible 47 Bible verses about Conscience - Online Bible

Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'I might die on account of her.'" Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us." So Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death." Brierley, M. (1962). Psychoanalysis and moral values: by Heinz Hartmann. Int. J. Psychoanal. 43, 351–352. In Without Conscience, Robert Hare posits that there are some 2million psychopaths in the United States (and approximately 20% of the prison population is comprised of psychopaths). It’s something that doesn’t necessarily correlate with childhood abuse; some people are just bad, down in their bones. Of course, there are the exceptional serial killer cases like Ted Bundy, but most psychopaths are more banal in their wrongdoing: they just lie and cheat their way through life remorselessly.Gallese, V. (2008). Empathy, embodied simulation and the brain: commentary on Aragno and Zepf/Hartmann. J. Am. Psychoanal. Assoc. 56, 769–781. doi: 10.1177/0003065108322206 A brilliant, in-depth handling of a most complex subject. --Hugh Aynesworth, author of Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer Lccn 98051786 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000666 Openlibrary_edition Decety, J., Skelly, L. R., and Kiehl, K. A. (2013). Brain response to empathy-eliciting scenarios involving pain in incarcerated individuals with psychopathy. JAMA Psychiatry 70, 638–645. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.27

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Focusing on the relation between shame, guilt, and neurobiology, Schore (2003) writes: “(...) the shame system that emerges in this period represents an involving cortical inhibitory control mechanism of excessive, hyperstimulated states” (o.c., p. 158) and “Utilizing a neuropsychoanalytic perspective, it is suggested that the psychoanalytic ego ideal can be identified as an affect-regulation structure with the left orbital prefrontal cortex. This cortical inhibitory system is expanded in the right hemisphere and has extensive limbic connections, regulates emotions (...), attachment behavior (...), and aggression (...), and influences parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic function.” (o.c., p. 182). Then turning to guilt, Schore concludes: “The earlier development of nonverbal shame and the ego ideal before verbal guilt and conscience reflects the known biologically determined earlier differentiation and functional onset of the nonverbal visuospatial-holistic right hemisphere (...) and the later maturation of the linguistic-rational capacity of the verbal analytic right hemisphere” (o.c., p. 185). I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.” Schore, A. N. (2009). Relational trauma and the developing brain. An interface of psychoanalytic self psychology and neuroscience. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1159, 189–203. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04474.xSi prestamos demasiada atención a los ejemplos más brutales y llamativos, corremos el riesgo de no ver el cuadro completo: los psicópatas que no asesinan pero que están presentes en nuestras vidas. Raine, R., and Yang, Y. (2006). Neural foundations to moral reasoning and antisocial behavior. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 1, 203–213. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsl033 Morita, T., Itakura, S., Saito, D. N., Nakashita, S., Harada, T., Kochiyama, T., et al. (2008). The role of the right prefrontal cortex in self-evaluation of the face: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 20, 342–355. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20024