Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D., ABPP, Adjunct clinical associate professor of psychology and clinical consultant at New York University (NYU); guest faculty, the William Alanson White Institute; and faculty of the National Institute for the Psychotherpaies (NIP) and the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis. A Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), he co-edited The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma.

Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D., is an adjunct clinical associate professor of psychology at NYU; faculty and clinical consultant at Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis; and fellow of ISSTD. She is the author of The Dissociative Mind and Understanding and Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Relational Approach and co-editor of The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma.

Acknowledgements

Editors and Contributors

Brief Descriptions of Chapters by Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D. & Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.

Introduction by Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D. & Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

Chapter One: Psychopathy and Human Evil: An Overview by Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D.

Chapter Two: Outsiders to Love: The Psychopathic Character and Dilemma by Elizabeth F. Howell, Ph.D.

Chapter Three: Sexual Desire, Violent Death, and the True Believer by J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.

Chapter Four: The Place of Psychopathy Along the Spectrum of Negative Personality Types. by Michael H. Stone, MD

Chapter Five: The Perpetrators: The Receivers and Transmitters of Evil by Valerie Sinason, Ph.D.

Chapter Six: The Other Within: White Shame, Native-American Genocide by Sue Grand, Ph.D.

Chapter Seven: American Hierarchy: White, "Good"; Black, "Evil" by Cleonie White, Ph.D.

Chapter Eight: Sympathy for the Devil: Evil, Social Process, and Intelligibility by Robert Prince, Ph.D.

Chapter Nine: Die Hitler In UNS (The Hitler in US): Evil and The Psychoanalytic Situation by Emily A. Kuriloff, Psy.D.

Chapter Ten: Dissociation and Counterdissociation: Nuanced and Binary Perceptions of Good and Evil by Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.

Chapter Eleven: Dancing With The Devil: A Personal Essay On My Encounters with Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, PhD.

Chapter Twelve: The Developmental Roots of Psychopathy: An Attachment Perspective by Adriano Schimmenti, Ph.D.

Chapter Thirteen: The Murder of Laius by Neville Symington, Ph.D.

Chapter Fourteen: Psychopaths and the Neurobiology of Evil by Nathalie Gauthier, M.A., Tabitha Methot-Jones, Angela Book, Ph.D., & J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.