Continuing our series "Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of" we're sharing our conversation with education advocate, Robin, about challenges in getting appropriate accommodations within the academic setting, as well as the common challenge of psychopathy initially being misdiagnosed as autism. Part 1 of 4.

Book referenced: Far From the Tree, by Andrew Solomon

"Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of" continues, as we discuss media representations of psychopathy. Intriguingly, the most accurate representation we've seen is soulless Sam in Supernatural.

As part of our series, "Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of", we discuss some of the unanswered questions out there about psychopathy and altruism, as well as the lesson that can be taken from the time that Lillyth's child told her he felt like Dexter and that he didn't have a soul.

Book referenced: The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between by Abigail Marsh

Continuing the series Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of", we discuss the tendency of others to dismiss and even silence parents and caregivers of violent children.

Continuing the series Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of", we discuss the need for additional research with a focus on diagnostics.

We continue our discussion about the vital need for reformulating the diagnostic paradigm and creating a system to provide interventions for kids who are developing psychopathy and family supports to keep everyone safe. This is a continuation of Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of".

Book reference in this episode: Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker

Continuing in our series "Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of", we discuss the vital need for reformulating the diagnostic paradigm and creating a system to provide interventions for kids who are developing psychopathy and family supports to keep everyone safe.

Books referenced in the discussion:

Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas

The Psychopath Whisperer by Dr. Kent Kiehl

In our ongoing series "Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of", we discuss insufficiencies in the current residential treatment system.

“No one is a Psychopath”: https://psychopathyis.org/news/no-one-is-a-psychopath/

“An Open Letter to Hollywood”: https://psychopathyis.org/news/an-open-letter-to-hollywood-and-the-entertainment-industry/

Raising a child with psychopathy is to wonder if ever siren you hear is because of, or for, your kid.

Parenting children with psychopathy changes you and the way you perceive and navigate the world. It forces you to find coping skills that most people never need; but it's the only way to survive. So, if you are one of these families, please know that you are not alone.

In Episode 3 of this series, we discuss the mistaken belief that psychopathy is caused by trauma. Naturally, trauma doesn't help anyone, but it doesn't cause the neurodevelopmental disorder.

Lillyth Quillan, the first parent to publicly use her name and face to say she is the parent of a child with Conduct Disorder/Psychopathy and the founder of as online support groups for such parents, joins us for a series about Psychopathy, entitled Decoding Psychopathy & Conduct Disorder: An Exploration of the Most Important Neurodevelopmental Disorder You've Never Heard Of.