Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream
Abstract
Key Words: 114 Humankinds darker side lies at the core of this immensely enthralling book. The title of this powerfully absorbing book is also its overarching theme: bad men (and women) actually do what good men (and women) merely dream about. Drawing on his several-decades-long professional experience as a treating and forensic psychiatrist, Simon meticulously, and sturdily, lays the groundwork for readers insights into their own psychological frailties. For some, Simons core themethat all persons are born with emotional demonsmay be quite unnerving and discomfiting, but for those who are stimulated to engage in introspective examination of their humanness, including its darker side, his bluntly revealing and sensitively written book offers wonderful opportunities for reparative insights into human behavior. The current state of knowledge of human behavior is not complete. Simon is firmly intent on illumining the darker side of such behavior. In this riveting book, his very considerable writing talents, in synergy with his longstanding professional interest in human behavior, function, in effect, as a key unlocking the enigmatic, complex door to human violence and deviance. Simon hurls the reader unabashedly into the frightening world of human depravity. It is a world in which not-acted-on violence, aggression,