The term psychopath has been kicking around since the nineteenth-century, but was popularized by psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley in his 1941 classic The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some ...

We have an unhealthy obsession with psychopaths. We tune into true crime shows, podcasts, and movies, and say that we want to understand them, to get into their heads and figure out their ...

But Fallon is not a mass murderer and in his new book, "The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain," he tries to understand why. "I wouldn't want to ...

Psychopaths: Born evil or with a diseased brain? Published. 15 November 2011. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. Image caption, Scans of serial killer Brian Dugan's brain ...

For the psychopath, Cleckley wrote, “beauty and ugliness … goodness, evil, love, horror, and humor have no actual meaning.” Hervey Cleckley created one of the great mythic figures of the ...

Psychopathy, on the other hand, ... "The fact that these terms have become synonymous with evil, it makes sense," adds Patric Gagne, PhD, a clinical psychologist, author, ...

The medicalization of evil—that is, the physician-led diagnosis and management of diseases like “moral insanity” and “criminal psychosis”—stretches back to the early 19th century ...

A 'psychopath' who plied his partner with cocaine before throttling her to death on the night she planned to leave him has been locked up for life. 'Thoroughly evil and manipulative' Kieron ...

Batman. Legendary crimefighting hero and scourge of the underworld? Or deranged lover of violence in a leather cape? Evil Genius with Russell Kane is back for a new series, and kicking off with ...