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The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath

The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath

Meloy, J. Reid

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CognitionGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1138005517
ISBN13: 9781138005518
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 12 2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Mark of Cain makes available for the first time the accumulated psychoanalytic understanding of the psychopathic mind. Editor Reid Meloy, a leading authority on the psychology of the psychopath, has brought together in a single collection the most historically important psychoanalytic papers on the psychopath and delineted their continuing relevance to contemporary understanding.

According to Meloy, two theoretical traditions flow into the psychoanalytic understanding of psychopathy. The first tributary focuses on the early development of the psychopath in order to illuminate how a profound alteration in self-regard leads both to a denigration of the other and to an impulsive search for gratification in the present. The second tributary seeks to locate the psychopathic miscarriage of human potentiality within analytic theories of personality structure and clinically grounded differential diagnosis. Meloy presents the major contributions associated with both of these traditions. Included within this body of literature are the original formulations of concepts that have long since become part of the psychoanalytic nomenclature: the affectionless juvenile offender, the diagnostic significance of affect hunger, the behavioral consequences of superego lacunae, the recourse to promiscuous identification in the impostor, and the paradoxically lethal lure of malignant narcissism. Of special interest are Meloy's historical notes to each chapter and two section introductions, the latter major essays in their own right.

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