Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D., ABPP, Adjunct clinical associate professor of psychology and clinical consultant at New York University (NYU); guest faculty, the William Alanson White Institute; and faculty of the National Institute for the Psychotherpaies (NIP) and the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis. A Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), he co-edited The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma.Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D., is an adjunct clinical associate professor of psychology at NYU; faculty and clinical consultant at Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis; and fellow of ISSTD. She is the author of The Dissociative Mind and Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach and co-editor of The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma.

• AcknowledgementsEditors and ContributorsBrief Descriptions of Chapters by Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D. & Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.Introduction by Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.Chapter One: Psychopathy and Human Evil: An Overview by Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.Chapter Two: Outsiders to Love: The Psychopathic Character and Dilemma by Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.Chapter Three: Sexual Desire, Violent Death, and the True Believer by J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.Chapter Four: The Place of Psychopathy Along the Spectrum of Negative Personality Types. by Michael H. Stone, MDChapter Five: The Perpetrators: The Receivers and Transmitters of Evil by Valerie Sinason, Ph.D.Chapter Six: The Other Within: White Shame, Native-American Genocide by Sue Grand, Ph.D.Chapter Seven: American Hierarchy: White, "Good"; Black, "Evil" by Cleonie White, Ph.D.Chapter Eight: Sympathy for the Devil: Evil, Social Process, and Intelligibility by Robert Prince, Ph.D.Chapter Nine: Die Hitler In UNS (The Hitler in US): Evil and The Psychoanalytic Situation by Emily A. Kuriloff, Psy.D.Chapter Ten: Dissociation and Counterdissociation: Nuanced and Binary Perceptions of Good and Evil by Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.Chapter Eleven: Dancing With The Devil: A Personal Essay On My Encounters with Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church by Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, PhD.Chapter Twelve: The Developmental Roots of Psychopathy: An Attachment Perspective by Adriano Schimmenti, Ph.D.Chapter Thirteen: The Murder of Laius by Neville Symington, Ph.D.Chapter Fourteen: Psychopaths and the Neurobiology of Evil by Nathalie Gauthier, M.A., Tabitha Methot-Jones, Angela Book, Ph.D., & J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.

"Scholars have studied human destructiveness from a public health perspective. Others have recorded the devastating dynamics at the individual level. Dr. Itzkowitz and Dr. Howell bring these perspectives together with insight and eloquence. From an analysis of psychopathic persons as "outsiders to love," contributors speak to the historical, cultural, and even genocidal aspects of psychopathic behavior, all the while offering the reader an uncommon glimpse of the internal experience. In this day when psychopathic personality has the potential to pair with ever greater power, this discerning volume offers a critically needed understanding." --Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv, Yale School of Medicine Law and Psychiatry Division"This is a cutting-edge work, an eye-opener. Itzkowitz and Howell, themselves significant contributors to the psychoanalytic literature on psychopathy, encourage us not to limit our definition of psychopathic behavior to the kinds of heinous acts that are reported in the newspapers, but to include evil, noncriminal activities of any kind. Virtually every scholar and clinician who has had something original to say about psychopathy is represented here. This book will be necessary for veterans in its field, and because it so straightforwardly addresses a notoriously difficult subject, it will be crucial to the beginner. It will be widely studied by psychoanalysts, but its appeal will extend to clinicians of every theoretical stripe." --Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D., William Alanson White Institute