The Brain of Dexter Morgan: the Science of Psychopathy in Showtime's Season 8 of Dexter.

ABSTRACT: This article identifies and discusses on the ways in which biological influences to psychopathy are thematically portrayed in the eighth season of Dexter to describe Dexter's psychopathy, particularly focusing on fatalism and the inevitability of succumbing to one's "biological self." This paper, utilizing traditional content analysis, focuses on seven qualitative themes surrounding "biological fatalism" and psychopathy in this final season of Dexter. As lay theories of psychopathy are thought to originate from the media's conceptualization of the disorder, such thematic portrayals serve to potential affect lay understandings of psychopathy and correspondingly, how the disorder is treated and perceived in the criminal justice process as a modern psychopathy-related "CSI Effec

SUBMITTER: Berryessa C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863484 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature