Horizon 255x12 - What Makes a Psychopath?

Presented by psychologist Professor Uta Frith, this is anin-depth exploration of the psychopathic mind including one ofthe most notorious of all, Moors murderer Ian Brady. Throughan ongoing correspondence between the Horizon team and Brady,the film features some of the very last letters he wrote. Thefilm also features a series of candid interviews with prisoninmates who not only describe their crimes but why they thinkthey committed them.Horizon explores not only how eachindividual's crimes were shaped by their own life experiences,but also gives an insight in to how these people think andbehave. Working with the world's experts in the field, thefilm sheds light on the biological, psychological andenvironmental influences that shape a psychopath. And it looksto the future, with groundbreaking research that suggests alife time of incarceration is not the only option to manageviolent and dangerous psychopaths.