CRM 2301 Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Psychopathy Checklist, Mental Disorder, Psychopathy
28 Nov 2017
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Between soma and society: neuroscience and the ontology of psychopathy: pickersgill. In aligning somatic and societal narratives for the development of psychopathology contemporary neuroscience may resist older sociological criticisms of biological reductionism, yet in so doing, generate new claims with novel ethical and political valence. Introduction: a techno-somatic" ethic is today widespread, though not hegemonic with contemporary. Such an approach entails an epistemological emphasis on technoscientific methodologies and knowledges and an ontological preoccupation with the body as the locus of psychopathy. Apa and dsm: the official terminological standard for aspd is located in the american psychatric. Prefronal cortex: area of brain associated with the executive function which includes the ability to discriminate b/w conflicting thoughts, suppress urges and work towards a goal. It is this dysfunction, possibly cofounded by impairment by another brain region (the orbitofrontal cortex) that results in particular personality traits ascribed to psychopathy.
