Supporting evidence

Cards (4)

  • Lots of studies supporting the psychodynamic view of criminal behaviour and psychopathy
  • Bender
    Observed emotional deprivation during infancy as a cause of psychopathic behaviour disorder in children at Bellevue Hospital
  • Spitz
    found that inconsistent mothers with unpredictable love in the early years may lead to psychopathic personality
  • Silverman
    80% of psychopathic personalities had an unhealthy parent-child relationship,showing a connection between unstable mother relationships and psychopathic behaviour