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Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

Interview on Psychopathy with Expert Carl Bruce Gacono, Ph.D., ABAP

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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In this episode, I interviewed Carl B. Gacono, PhD, who is an expert in the areas of criminal psychopathology, behavior, and treatment. We dive into understanding and acknowledging the distinct differences between psychopathic and non-psychopathic patients and how their assessment with the PCL-R and Rorschach aid in their management and treatment. We also discuss how understanding transference and countertransference is essential when interacting with these difficult patients.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.

0:12.2

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0:16.6

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0:18.6

One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical

0:22.0

education right at the last minute.

0:24.2

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0:28.6

Go to psychiatrypodcast.com, sign up, sign in, take the test, and the certification

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is emailed to you in seconds.

0:35.6

In this episode with Karl Kakono, PhD and forensic expert, he is both a researcher and a clinician,

0:43.2

someone who has worked over 20 years in prisons and now in private practice.

0:48.1

We will be going through psychopathy and criminal offenders.

0:52.7

We'll be talking about anti-social personality disorder, psychopathy, the Rochark.

0:58.0

He is an expert with over 50 publications, including books like Female Offenders and the

1:04.9

Rochark Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities, the Clinical and forensic assessment

1:10.0

of psychopathy.

1:12.5

And to sort of introduce this episode, I was thinking about empathy, and if you remember

1:17.4

from my therapeutic alliance episode on empathy, I talk about how there's different levels

1:21.4

of empathy.

1:22.4

There's empathy for the moment to moment emotion that's flashed on the face, the sentence,

1:27.6

context, the short context, the paragraph, and then the book, the overall arc of someone's

1:33.9

life.

1:34.9

And something that we talk about in this episode is that with someone who is psychopathic,

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