The Coming Of The Psychopath

The Coming of the Psychopath"There walk among us men and women who are in but not of our world," wrote psychiatrist Robert Lindner. "Often the sign by which they betray themselves is crime, crime of an explosive, impulsive, reckless type. Sometimes the sign is ruthlessness in dealing with others socially, even commercially."The menacing individuals to whom Dr. Lindner referred (in Must You Conform?, 1955) are well known. They have a familiar name. In psychiatric as well as po...