Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Mark Freestone. He's a senior lecturer

at Queen Mary University of London, an author and an expert in psychopathology. There's a modern

fascination with psychopaths. True crime is the most popular single podcast genre out there,

and Netflix documentaries about real-life serial killers capture everyone's attention. But why are we

so obsessed with dangerous individuals? And what is it that makes a psychopath who they are?

Expect to learn what are the differences between a psychopath and a sociopath,

why having psychopaths in society was an advantage for a long time, why there are so few female

psychopaths? What happens when a university lecturer discovers his own psychopathy in his 40s,

the scariest criminals markers ever worked with, and much more? Obviously there are a lot of

episodes on modern wisdom about improving your mindset or understanding yourself in the world around

you, but I do also enjoy the ones that are just a cool story or just interesting. You don't

have the pressure of having to remember it so that you can then wake up and journal it in the

morning. It's just something fascinating, right, about some of the most interesting and strange

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