Welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast. The podcast to help you in your journey

towards becoming a wise, empathic, genuine and connected mental health professional.

I'm your host, Dr. David Puder, a psychiatrist who splits his time practicing psychopharmacology,

individual and group psychotherapy, medical director of a day treatment program,

medical education research, and teaching, residence, and medical students.

In this episode, Dr. Cummings and I discuss psychopathy, the fearless, empathylist people,

who see people as objects and have the inability to attach within relationships.

Dr. Michael Cummings recently contributed to a book called Violence in Psychiatry,

detailing the biological aspects of psychopathy, which was edited by Steven Stahl.

Dr. Cummings works at Patton State Hospital, one of the biggest forensic hospitals in the world.

He is the Yoda of the psychiatric world, with many other psychiatrists bringing him their most complex and difficult cases.

In this episode, we will cover the history of psychopathy, influences of early life traumas,

prosocial careers in psychopaths, biological components in psychopathy.

The emotions, psychopaths fail to see why psychopaths have not been bred out of existence,

advice if you were in a relationship with a psychopath, the drugs that make someone look like a psychopath,

why more men are violent psychopaths, and the treatment of this group of people to decrease violence.

We will also wrestle with how to shift more psychopaths at an early age into prosocial psychopaths.

So this is an extensive and enlightening conversation with a true world expert, I hope you enjoy it.

Alright, so I'm sitting here with Dr. Cummings, who is a psychiatrist, a forensic expert here at Patton State Hospital,

and today we're going to talk about psychopathy.

So yeah, Dr. Cummings, tell me a little bit about psychopathy and your interest in psychopathy.

Okay, well, I got interested in psychopathy as a component of forensic psychiatry.

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