Beyond Bad and Mad: Making Psychopaths Responsible

摘要

Gillett and Huang (2013) rightly stress that societal aspects of psychopathology imply society has responsibilities toward psychopaths. In this commentary, I argue that society should not only take up its responsibility toward psychopaths, but also help psychopaths to become responsible themselves. Forensic psychiatry should regard psychopaths as personswho are able to develop moral insight and should foster and support their moral development. Thus, it should go beyond seeing psychopaths as perpetrators (bad) and victims (mad), and enable them to become truemembers of society.