Are Psychopaths Born, or Made?

It turns out it’s a combination of both

Wendy Cohan

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Photo by Natasha Connell on Unsplash

I wish I weren’t personally interested in this question. I wish I’d never heard the term psychopath. I wish I didn’t know the things I know. I wish that certain images from my past didn’t occasionally percolate through my busy brain to linger there, raising dark questions about one of my family members. But wishing doesn’t make it so.

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Wendy Cohan

Author of character-driven women's fiction, short stories, and essays. Her contemporary romance, The Renaissance Sisters, debuted May 23, 2023.