The Psychopathic Mind

Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment

By (author) Reid J. Meloy

Publication date:

01 October 1992

Length of book:

496 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780876683118

Forensic psychologist Reid Meloy identifies psychopathology as a deviant development disturbance characterized by inordinate instinctual aggression and the absence of a capacity bond. It is the definitive book on the subject.

A Jason Aronson Book

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Origins
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Dynamic and Biologic Origins
Chapter 5 Developmental Origins
Part 6 Structure and Dynamics
Chapter 7 Affective Life and Death
Chapter 8 Unconscious Defense and Conscious Choice
Part 9 Violence, Psychosis, and Related States
Chapter 10 Modes of Aggression
Chapter 11 Psychosis and Psychopathy
Part 12 Treatment
Chapter 13 Psychotherapeutic Issues
Part 14 Appendix 1: Jonathan Guard — Deception and Denial in Psychopathy
Part 15 Appendix 2: Louis Cypher — Paranoid Schizophrenia and Psychopathy
Part 16 Appendix 3: The Rorschach Psychodiagnosis of Psychopathy
Chapter 17 References, Index

This book represents the confluence of many streams of thought and addresses the interest of the whole mental health field in a way in which few others have.