Handbook of Psychopathy
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Guilford Press
Published: October 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 651
ISBN-13: 9781593852122
Subjects: Psychiatry; Mental Illness; Clinical Psychology (Specific Aspects); Psychology; Psychopathology - General; Personality; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Forensic Psychology; Antisocial personality disorde; Antisocial personality disorders; Handbooks, manuals, etc
First sentence: The term "psychopathic personality," so awkward erymologically in its current usage, was an appropriate choice when first introduced in the late 1800s, for then it embraced a broad group of behavior pathologies suggestive of psychopathology but unclassifiable in any of the categories of mental disorder than current.