The Mark of Cain

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Summary: An approach to understanding the psychopathic mind
Review: The Mark Of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight And The Psychopath focuses on providing a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the psychopathic mind as presented in a series of twenty-one psychoanalytic papers by experienced researchers and practitioners. From David M. Levy's Primary Affect Hunger (1937) and Wilhelm Reich's The Phallic-Narcissistic Character (1933), to Ben Bursten's Some Narcissistic Personality Types (1973) and Otto F. Kemberg's The Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the Differential Diagnosis of Antisocial Behavior (1989), The Mark Of Cain offers a superbly presented historical survey of seminal, scholarly contributions that significantly contribute to our understanding of the complex inner world of the psychopath and the necessity of a clinical realism in dealing with the deception, manipulation, exploitation, and physical danger psychopathic patients present to the therapist.