1. British study has the goods on corporate execs
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   A study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law tested 39 senior managers and chief executives from leading businesses and compared the results with the same tests on patients at Broadmoor hospital, where people who have been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of psychopathy, the bosses' scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients; in fact, on these criteria, they beat even the subset of patients who had been diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders.
2. The Corporation
   The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
   
3. The Corporation
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2004
   The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.
4. 'Evil' is in reality a lack of empathy
   It is one of humankind's strongest emotions; its absence lies at the root of human cruelty. How can we study it?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   A psychopathologist reframes the debate around 'the root of evil' by attributing it to a lack of empathy.
5. The Mass Psychology of Fascism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
6. Nothing personal, just business
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2007
   "A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
   How is that an either-or choice?
7. Radical Digressions 4
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2008
   
8. A Safe Place
   Laying the Groundwork of Psychotherapy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Hawkin examines the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry and asks what allows psychological healing to take place.
9. The Whack 'Em and Stack 'Em Mentality of American Cops
   Killers on the Road
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   Killings by police are not a negligible proportion of the United States' firearms death toll. The public apprehension that cops are often borderline psychotic, hair-trigger-ready to open fire on the slightest pretext, virtually immune from serious sanction, is growing apace, fueled by such incidents as the dog slaughter on an interstate.

Experts on Psychopathy/Psychopaths in the Sources Directory

1. Barrie Zwicker