The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in Life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers

In this adventure into the world of psychopaths, Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a 'scale of madness' along which we all sit. He shows that there is a fine line separating a brilliant surgeon and a serial killer, illustrating the spectrum of psychopathy with some insightful and startling case studies. Dr Kevin Dutton teaches social psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he is Research Fellow at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion at St Edmund's College. The Wisdom of Psychopaths is an intellectual rollercoaster ride that combines original scientific research with bold on-the-ground reporting from secret monasteries, Special Forces training camps and rarefied psychopath wings of maximum-security hospitals.