Some characteristics of the psychopathic personality

In this chapter I shall discuss some characteristics of the psychopathic personality. I use the term here in the sense in which it is generally employed in psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature. I cannot, in a paper of this length, discuss the analytic literature on the subject, but would refer particularly to Alexander (1930), Bromberg (1948), Deutsch (1955), Fenichel (1945), Greenacre (1945), Reich (1925), Wittels (1938). It will be seen that my approach to the problem is essentially dependent upon an understanding of the work of Melanie Klein (1935, 1946, 1957).