Shortcuts
Top of page (Alt+0)
Page content (Alt+9)
Page menu (Alt+8)
Your browser does not support javascript, some WebOpac functionallity will not be available.
.
Default
.
PageMenu
-
Main Menu
-
Languages
English
.
Members
My Account
.
Join the Library
.
eLibrary
.
Gale Databases
.
Logout
.
Search The Catalogue
Basic Search
.
Advanced Search
.
Magazine Search
.
New Items Search
.
New Items List
.
Useful Links
Library Home Page
.
Print a Document
.
Book a Public Computer
.
Add Credit to Library Card
.
eLibrary
.
© LIBERO v6.4.1sp240206
Page content
You are here
:
>
Basic Search
Catalogue Display
Catalogue Display
The anatomy of evil / Michael H. Stone, MD.
.
Author on Wikipedia
.
.
LibraryThing
.
Browse Shelf
Catalogue Record 1118071
.
Item Information
Catalogue Record 1118071
.
Catalogue Information
Catalogue Record 1118071
.
.
Item Information
Shelf Location
Collection
Volume Ref.
Branch
Status
Due Date
364.3 STON
Adult Non Fiction
Campsie
.
.
Available
.
364.3 STON
Adult Non Fiction
Chester Hill
.
.
Available
.
Reserve any copy Click Here
Catalogue Record 1118071
.
Catalogue Record 1118071 ItemInfo
.
Catalogue Record 1118071 ItemInfo
Top of page
.
Catalogue Information
Field name
Details
ISBN
9781633883352 (paperback)
Name
Stone, Michael H., 1933-
author.
Title
The anatomy of evil / Michael H. Stone, MD.
Published
Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2017.
©2009
Description
486 pages, 6 unnumered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-413) and index.
Summary
In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviours that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately explained by religious doctrines. Stone has created a 22-level hierarchy of evil behaviour, which loosely reflects the structure of Dante's Inferno. Basing his analysis on the detailed biographies of more than 600 violent criminals, he traces two salient personality traits that run the gamut from those who commit crimes of passion to perpetrators of sadistic torture and murder. One trait is narcissism, as exhibited in people who are so self-centred that they have little or no ability to care about their victims. The other is aggression, the use of power over another person to inflict humiliation, suffering, and death. What do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the minds of those whose actions could be described as evil? And what will that mean for the rest of us? Stone discusses how an increased understanding of the causes of evil will affect the justice system. He predicts a day when certain persons can safely be declared salvageable and restored to society and when early signs of violence in children may be corrected before potentially dangerous patterns become entrenched.
Subjects
Criminal psychology
Good and evil
Links to Related Works
Subject References:
Criminal psychology
.
Good and evil
.
See Also:
Criminal behavior
.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of
.
Psychology, Pathological
.
Ethics
.
Polarity
.
Theodicy
.
Broader Subject References:
Psychology
.
Authors:
Stone, Michael H., 1933-
.
.
Related Searches
Catalogue Record 1118071
.
Add Title to Basket
Catalogue Record 1118071
.
Catalogue Information 1118071
.
Catalogue Information 1118071
Top of page
.
Quick Search
Search for