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In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviours, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton discloses that there is a range of "madness" along which we all sit. Making use of the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the great neurosurgeon who does not have empathy has more in common with a Ted Bundy who eliminates for pleasure than we might wish to say, and that a mugger in a candlight parking lot may well, in reality, have the same nerveless poise as a titan of industry. Dutton argues that there are indeed "functional psychopaths" in our midst not the same as their murderous counterparts - who use their detached, unflinching, and charismatic personalities to achieve mainstream society, and that shockingly, in a few fields, the more "psychopathic" people are, the much more likely they are to succeed. Dutton deconstructs this often misunderstood diagnosis through daring on-the-ground reporting and original clinical research as he mingles with the criminally insane in a high-security ward, shares a drink with one of the world's most successful con artists, and undergoes transcranial magnetic activation to find firsthand exactly how it seems to look out of the eyes of a psychopath. As Dutton produces his theory that we all have psychopathic tendencies, he sets forward the debate that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: after all, psychopaths have a tendency to be fearless, confident, wonderful, ruthless, and targeted - attributes that are tailor-made for success in the 21st hundred years. Provocative at every convert, The Knowledge of Psychopaths is a riveting trip that reveals that it's our much-maligned dark side that often conceals the trump credit cards of success.
