Handbook of Psychopathy
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: June 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 651
ISBN-13: 9781593855918
Subjects: Mental Illness; Personality; Psychopathology - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychology
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.