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“Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy.” — M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath

For his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he’d been raised in a loving family, married his high school sweetheart, and had three kids and lots of friends. Then he learned a shocking truth that would not only disrupt his personal and professional life, but would lead him to question the very nature of his own identity.

While researching serial killers, he uncovered a pattern in their brain scans that helped explain their cold and violent behavior. Astonishingly, his own scan matched that pattern. And a few months later he learned that he was descended from a long line of murderers. Fallon set out to reconcile the truth about his own brain with everything he knew as a scientist about the mind, behavior, and personality.

ISBN-13: 9781617230158

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Date: 10-28-2014

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Age Range: 18 Years

James Fallon is an award-winning neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, where he has taught for thirty-five years. He lives in Irvine, CA.

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“As comprehensive as it is compelling, essential reading for understanding the genetic and neuroscience underpinnings of psychopathy.” —M. E. THOMAS, author of Confessions of a Sociopath

“Just the word ‘psychopath’ is enough to grab anyone’s attention and it has inspired numerous TV shows and films for many decades. In truth, I believe the word itself does little to wrap its arms around the infinite behavioral traits psychopaths pos­sess, for good and bad. Fallon lets us inside his mind as he takes us on a deftly woven journey, breaking down every convention of psychopathic behavior.” —SIMON MIRREN, former executive producer of Criminal Minds
“Absorbing, insightful and quirky” –Kirkus

“His surprising final diagnosis could broaden the way we see normality.” –Nature

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 What Is a Psychopath? 9

Chapter 2 Evil Brewing 21

Chapter 3 The Brain of a Killer 42

Chapter 4 Bloodlines 65

Chapter 5 A Third Leg to Stand On 90

Chapter 6 Going Public 107

Chapter 7 Love and Other Abstractions 130

Chapter 8 A Party in My Brain 169

Chapter 9 Can You Change a Psychopath? 187

Chapter 10 Why Do Psychopaths Exist? 213

Acknowledgments 229

Bibliography 231

Index 237