Within this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the idea and fact of evil from a new perspective. Within an in-depth conversation of the character traits and behaviors that constitute evil across a broad spectrum, Dr. Rock requires a clarifying scientific approach to a subject that for years and years has been inadequately described by spiritual doctrines.

Stone has created a twenty-two-level hierarchy of evil behavior, which loosely reflects the framework of Dante’s about The Anatomy of Bad Inferno. Basing his analysis on the complete biographies of more than 600 violent bad guys, he traces two salient character traits that have huge variations from those who commit offences of enthusiasm to perpetrators of sadistic torture and murder.

One trait is definitely narcissism, as exhibited in individuals who are so self-centered they have little if any ability to value their victims. The additional is aggression, the use of power over someone else to inflict humiliation, struggling, and death.

What do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the thoughts of those whose actions is evil? And exactly what will that mean for ordinary people? Rock discusses how an increased understanding of the sources of evil will influence the justice program. He predicts each day when certain persons can securely be announced salvageable and restored to culture so when early indicators of assault in children could be corrected before potentially dangerous patterns become entrenched.