Journal of Forensic Psychology

Glen Bates

Publications

• Review Article
  Reconceptualising Psychopathy
  Author(s): Stephen Mihailides, Roslyn Galligan and Glen Bates Stephen Mihailides, Roslyn Galligan and Glen Bates
  
  This work re-engineers theory about psychopathy, by redevelopment of core assumptions about psychopathy. In that redevelopment, the origins of current theory are traced, to analyse critically the post Cleckley period of construct development. The discordances in competing lines of existing theory become a precursor to theoretical innovation. The notion of paradoxical superfunctioning-a topical feature of Cleckley's work is recognised as having utility for redefining theory. This precedes fundamental reformulation of theory of psychopathy, where the focus is upon the implications of normal levels of psychopathy for adaptive human functioning. Psychopathy is formulated as a statetrait construct. The principle of dynamism is deployed to guide understanding of how state levels of psychopathy may vary by context. Tenets of a State-Psychopathy Hypothesis are organised within assumptions.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2475-319X.1000120

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