Psychopath Whisperer Sparknotes

The man who plead guilty of the rape and murder of a 10 year old girl, Brian Dugan stood in front of the jurors, awaiting for his sentence. However, before standing in front of the court once again, Dr. Kent A. Kiehl, author of The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science Of Those Without Conscience, interviews Dugan at the request of a defense attorney. Within the interview, Dr. Kiehl asked Dugan the reason for his crime. Shockingly, Dugan responds with "I don't understand why. I wish I knew why I did a lot of things, but I don't" (Kiehl 244). To provide evidence to the defense attorney, Dr. Kiehl reveals how he was able to find the reason for the crime in his memoir, The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science Of Those Without Conscience, by going over Dugan's adolescent life, the results of his Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and finally revealing that he showed signs of psychopathy. Dugan's adolescent life is one that cannot be ignored and gives Dr. Kiehl an idea as to why he may have committed the

Kiehl had come to a conclusion; Brian Dugan was a true psychopath. During his interview when he first met Dugan, he asked specifically unique questions, based from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and noted how the interviewee would answer them. Dugan had scored a thirty-eight out of forty points, putting him in the ninety-ninth fifth percentile of human society. Another point of emphasis of a psychopathic trait can be found in the fMRI scan of the paralimbic system. Non-psychopaths typically have a non-atrophied paralimbic system while psychopaths are shown to have atrophy in their paralimbic system. Dugan's paralimbic system was noted to be the most atrophied that Dr. Kiehl and his team have ever seen, even when compared to other scans of other psychopaths. With his crime against the ten year old girl and the other factors presented, it was revealed that Brian Dugan was confirmed as an adult