CBC - How a psychiatry professor accidentally discovered he was a psychopath

No one told James Fallon he was a psychopath. 

Or maybe they had. When he was young, he'd heard again and again from people in positions of authority – a priest, a professor, a friend's father – that there was something off about him. Something dark that they couldn't quite name. But Fallon brushed it off each time.

Many years later, as a professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of California, Irvine, Fallon discovered his psychopathic mind for himself. 

James Fallon, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, School of
Medicine, describes himself as a ‘pro-social’ psychopath. (Daniel Anderson)

A witty and light look at one man's path to self-discovery and self-control, one that also delves into the nature versus nurture debate, looking at whether we are a product of our environments.

  • Are we subject to imbalance due to our biological makeup? 
  • Where do the lines between the natural sciences and the human sciences blur? 
  • Can we understand topics such as this from only a natural science or human science perspective?  
  • In what ways can WOKs be a source of power in overcoming limitations posed by the natural sciences? In what ways can they be used to better comprehend knowledge in the natural sciences? 
  • To what degree can sense perception or intuition shape or alter our faith in our own knowledge? Is it possible to work "against" shared knowledge via only WOKs? 

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