Dr. Mark Freestone, author of Making a Psychopath: My Journey into Seven Dangerous Minds, takes us into the mind of an infamous female psychopath—and the finicky, outdated, and often untrustworthy system that attempts to diagnose women like her.

A few curiosities you’ll uncover in this episode:

• The antiquated diagnosis process for psychopaths
• The differences between how psychopathy manifests in male and female patients
• Gritty details of the murder committed by Angela the Remorseless
• How a bias toward male patients is a symptom of a much larger issue

Did You Know?

James Bond is a psychopath. He scores around a 27 on the PCL-R, which in the UK is past the threshold for a psychopath.

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