The Psychopathic Mind Origins, Dynamics, and

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.

Acknowledgments

xiii

Foreword

xvii

James S. Grotstein

PART I ORIGINS

Introduction

3

(12)

Historical Antecedents

The Psychoanalysts

Object Relations

Dynamic and Biologic Origins

15

(24)

Biological Substrates

Summarizing the Biological Matrix

Developmental Origins

39

(24)

Internalization

Grandiose Self-Structure

Attachment

PART II STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

Affective Life and Death

63

(52)

Reptilian States

Conscious Experience of Emotion

Conclusions

Unconscious Defense and Conscious Choice

115

(70)

Denial and Deception

Imitation and Simulation

Projective Identification and Object Control

Splitting and Dissociation

PART III VIOLENCE, PSYCHOSIS, AND RELATED STATES

Modes of Aggression

185

(58)

Aggression and Violence

Affective Aggression

Predatory Aggression

Psychopathy and Predatory Violence

Psychosis and Psychopathy

243

(64)

Characterological Traits and Personality Organization

Paranoid Annihilation and Manic Triumph

Malingering and Dissembling

Psychotic Modes of Aggression

Drug-Induced Psychosis and Psychopathy

Mental Retardation and Psychopathy

PART IV TREATMENT

Psychotherapeutic Issues

307

(34)

Fundamental Premises

Countertransference

Predictable Resistances

During Psychotherapy

Appendix I: Jonathan Guard--Deception and Denial in Psychopathy

341

(22)

Appendix II: Louis Cypher--Paranoid Schizophrenia and Psychopathy

363

(14)

Appendix III: The Rorschach Psychodiagnosis of Psychopathy

377

(48)

References

425

(36)

Index

461

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