Sue Llewellyn

I’ve got an earworm which sounds both disgustingly creepy and so precisely descriptive. A tune that burrows deep into the brain. Often springing from nowhere, it gets stuck on repeat. But weirdly this time, far from being a niggling irritant, it’s actually making me feel strangely powerful. Invincible almost. It started yesterday, as I listened to a panel marking International Women’s Day.

Introduction The construct of psychopathy is understood generically as a type of personality disorder characterized, among other important features, by the presence of behaviors that conflict with the social, moral, or legal norms of society, giving rise in many cases to clearly criminal behaviors (Hare, 2003a,b; Crego and Widiger, 2018; Lykken, 2018; Patrick, 2018; Widiger and Crego, 2018).

When I worked at the BBC, one of my jobs as a journalist in the newsroom was to come up with story ideas and to find guests to come on TV and talk about them. And I did this all day, every day for 15 years. So that’s a lot of ideas and a lot of people, some of whom needed serious persuading to come on and share their story. Never short of ideas, I’d always come up with something and loved nothing more than digging about trying to find the perfect guest to share their story.