The language of the psychopath: Characteristics of prisoners' performance in a sentence completion test

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 214-226

  Endres, Johann ^a,b  

^a Bavarian Prison Service   (Germany)

^b JVA Ebrach ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DYSPHORIA; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRISONER; PSYCHOPATHY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PRISONERS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4744374364     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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