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#647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Can Psychopathy Really Cure Cyclopaths?

Yel: Psychopathy is an addiction of certain behavior patterns that are very pernicious and anti social. Some can be treated with cognitive behavior therapy, empathic sorts of retraining, they can. But cyclopas to this day, nobody as really shown that that can happen. Yel: In a way, you can look at psychopathy like an addiction to something that you never really get rid of. You can get rid of for maybe a month, a couple of months, a few months. But then you revert back to your old ways.

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