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Contents <p>About the Editors</p> <p>Contributors</p> <p>Preface to Volume I</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Introduction to Volume I</p> <p>Part IConceptual History</p> <p>Chapter 1History and Conceptual Development of Psychopathic Disorders<br /> Henning Saß, and Alan R. Felthous</p> <p>Part IIAssessment</p> <p>Chapter 2Psychiatric Assessment<br /> Paul Hoff and Sabine C. Herpertz</p> <p>Chapter 3Psychological Instruments in the Assessment of Psychopathy<br /> Robert D. Hare</p> <p>Chapter 4Functional and Structural Brain Imaging Research on Psychopathy<br /> Yaling Yang and Adrian Raine</p> <p>Chapter 5Psychophysiological Correlates of Psychopathic Disorders<br /> Matthew S. Stanford, Rebecca J. Houston, Ernest S. Barratt</p> <p>Chapter 6Cognitive Correlates<br /> Herta Flor</p> <p>Chapter 7Violence: Psychopathology, Risk Assessment and Lawsuits<br /> Kenneth Tardiff</p> <p>Chapter 8Risks of Diagnosing Psychopathic Disorders<br /> Norbert Leygraf and Klaus Elsner</p> <p>Part IIIEtiology and Pathogenesis</p> <p>Chapter 9The Genetics of Psychopathic Disorders<br /> David Goldmanand Francesca Ducci</p> <p>Chapter 10Neuroimaging Perspectives in Pathogenesis and Therapeutic<br /> Strategies<br /> Jürgen L. Müller</p> <p>Chapter 11Electrophysiology<br /> Sabine C. Herpertz</p> <p>Chapter 12The Role of ADHD in the Etiology and Outcome of Antisocial<br /> Behavior and Psychopathy<br /> Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Sabine C. Herpertz and Kerstin Konrad</p> <p>Chapter 13Brain Trauma<br /> Hannelore Ehrenreich, Henning Krampe and Anna-Leena Sirén</p> <p>Chapter 14Acquired Psychopathy and the Assessment of Traumatic Brain<br /> Injury<br /> Robert P. Granacher, Jr. and Manish A. Fozdar</p> <p>Chapter 15Comorbidities of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder:<br /> Prevalence and Implications<br /> Elena Carmen Nichita and Peter F. Buckley</p> <p>Chapter 16The Paraphilias and Psychopathy<br /> John M.W. Bradford, Philip Firestone and A.G. Ahmed</p> <p>Chapter 17"Family Upbringing": Family Factors as Predictors for the<br /> Development of Antisocial Behavior and Psychopathy Dimensions<br /> Maya K. Krischer, Kathrin Sevecke and Gerd Lehmkuhl</p> <p>Chapter 18Discipline by Parents and Child Psychopathology<br /> Emily M. Douglas and Murray A. Straus</p> <p>Chapter 19Social Origins of Psychopathy<br /> David P. Farrington</p> <p>Chapter 20A Psychoanalytic View of the Psychopath<br /> J. Reid Meloy and Andrew Shiva</p> <p>Chapter 21Women and Girls with Psychopathic Characteristics<br /> Tonia L. Nicholls, Candice L. Odgers, and David J. Cooke</p> <p>Chapter 22Educational Issues<br /> Franz Petermann and Ute Koglin</p> <p><br /> Part IVIntervention, Treatment and Management</p> <p>Chapter 23Intervention, Treatment and Management of ADHD<br /> Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Kerstin Konrad and Sabine C. Herpertz</p> <p>Chapter 24Pharmacotherapy of Clinical Aggression in Individuals with<br /> Psychopathic Disorders<br /> F. Gerard Moeller and Alan C. Swann</p> <p>Chapter 25Treatment and Management of Conduct Disorders in Children and<br /> Adolescents<br /> Manfred Döpfner, Kerstin Adrian and Charlotte Hanisch</p> <p>Chapter 26Psychotherapy of the Psychopathic Disorders<br /> Gill McGauley, Gwen Adshead and Sameer P. Sarkar</p> <p>Chapter 27Comprehensive Outpatient Treatment and Management<br /> Andreas Hill, Peer Briken and Wolfgang Berner<br /> <br /> Chapter 28Antisocial Disorders and Domestic Violence: Treatment<br /> Considerations<br /> L. Kevin Hamberger and Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling<br /> <br /> Chapter 29Workplace Violence Goes Beyond Psychopathology<br /> Michael H. Corcoran</p> <p>Chapter 30Addressing the Associated Conditions of Drug and Alcohol Abuse<br /> Falk Kiefer and Karl Mann</p> <p>Chapter 31Experiential and Community Treatment of Adult Antisocial<br /> Syndromes<br /> Stephen A. Thorne and William H. Reid</p> <p>Chapter 32Legal, Medical and Social Impediments to better Psychopaths:<br /> How Best to Deal with Persons with Psychopathic Disorders?<br /> Jürgen L. Müller</p> <p>Chapter 33Social Policy Considerations and Psychopathic Disorders<br /> Harald Dreßing, Hans Joachim Salize and Peter Gass</p> <p>Author Index</p> <p><br /> Subject Index</p>

<b>Alan R. Felthous</b>, M.D., is Professor and Director of Forensic Psychiatry in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Sciences degree at the University of Washington and his medical doctorate at the University of Louisville School of Medicine before interning at Roosevelt Hospital in New York city and completing a residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. After two years as a staff psychiatrist at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Oakland, Dr. Felthous joined the staff at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. For nearly 15 years, he was Chief o the Forensic Services, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was the Marie B. Gale centennial Professor of Psychiatry. Before coming to Saint Louis University, Dr. Felthous was Director of Forensic Psychiatry at Southern Illinoi8s University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Chester Mental Health Center, the maximum security forensic hospital for the state of Illinois. Dr. Felthous is President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Senior Editor of behavioral Science sand the Law and Past President of the American board of Forensic Psychiatry. His research, scholarly and teaching interests focus on clinical aggression, the psychopathology of criminal behavior, legal requirements of clinicians in managing potentially violent patients, and jail and prison suicide. <p><b>Henning Saß</b>, M.D., is currently Medical Director and Chairman of the board of Directors at the University Hospital of the University of Technology (RWTH) in Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. He studied medicine at the universities of Kiel, Vienna and Mainz. After passing the state examination in Kiel and receiving his medical doctorate in Mainz, he was a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. Having completed his training in clinical psychiatry and in psychotherapy, he concentrated on forensic psychiatry, general psychopathology, diagnostic research and personality disorders. His habilitation on Psychopathie, Soziopathie, and Dissozialitat (Psychopathy, Sociopathy and Dissocial Behaviors) was published as a Springer monograph in 1987. He was then appointed Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, after which he was the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the medical faculty in Aachen for 10 years, before he was appointed to his current position. His research interests remain focused on forensic psychiatry, especially in the field of personality disorders. During his academic career, he was President of the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Nervous Diseases (DGPPN) and of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP). He is editor or co-editor of several scientific journals and member of numerous boards of scientific organizations including the European Brain Council and the Research Council of the German Ministry for Science, Research and technology.</p>

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