Horizon: What Makes a Psychopath?
BBC TWO, 9.00PM
It is estimated that one in 100 people are psychopaths, but what exactly constitutes this behavioural pattern? Psychologist Uta Frith can’t quite tell us, so resorts to using Moors murderer Ian Brady as an example of a disturbed mind. There’s some interesting interviews with prison inmates, however, and a suggestion that a lifetime of incarceration may not be the best rehabilitation. RW