Dr. David Kosson recently spoke with Brent Franson on the Most Days podcast. The two spoke for about an hour about the nature of psychopathy. Dr. Kosson covered a variety of different topics, including:
- the four validated components of clinical psychopathy assessed in the Psychopathy Checklist measures,
- links between psychopathy and violence,
- different subtypes of psychopathy,
- psychopath versus sociopath,
- tips for identifying people with psychopathic traits,
- are psychopathic traits useful?
- the causes of psychopathy
- the treatment of psychopathy
- and emotion in people with psychopathy