Meet Sam Vaknin, author of the book Malignant Self Love. Sam knows he’s a supreme narcissist...but is he, as he suspects, also a psychopath? To find out, he becomes the world’s first civilian volunteer to be thoroughly tested for psychopathy, undergoing what’s known as The Psychopathy Checklist as well as other psychological tests from the world’s experts in the field.

With experts believing their numbers to be as high as one in a hundred, is Sam a psychopath? The most important characteristics of a psychopath revolve not around violence, but around lack of empathy, selfishness, and manipulation. Psychopathic tendencies can be manifested along a spectrum, like autism. I, Psychopath provides insights into the disorder that just may help you identify individuals in your midst with the same traits.