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What has transpired in this perspective represents the new tools and improved products described in Part I , Forensic Investigative Science. In Part II , The Brainmarks Paradigm for Adaptive Neuropsychopathy, Chapters 4 – 7 define and describe my paradigmatic shift into a lifelong adaptive version of psychopathy—a beneficial and restorative version —referred to as neuropsychopathy. Peer-reviewers are not surprised at my conclusions based upon what we all see every day from sapient brains. Part II describes my cutting-edge paradigm of spectrum psychopathy, sure to kindle lively debate. The Brainmarks Paradigm is simply the next step in the understanding of this brain condition. Certainly, Robert Hare or Martin Kantor will not, in the least, be surprised by my conclusions. From synergistic research alone, it is easy to document the contributions of brilliant colleagues, such as Hare and Kantor; they and numerous others are responsible for the evolution of spectrum psychopathy. Likewise, from student autobiographical essays that fi nally hit me “like a ton of bricks” in early 2010, the essays suggested elements of this paradigmatic shift as well. Four of these lightly edited autobiographies are included at the end of each of the four parts of this book. You soon will meet and discover facts about the lives of Rachel, Sabrina, Lauren, and Cassidy—all survivors of highly disruptive childhoods and adolescences who are now pursuing college degrees. The time has come for the Brainmarks Paradigm . If this paradigm is perceived to be no more than a good idea that follows logically from what we already know about psychopathy, that is fi ne too. To quote Hungarian Nobel Prize–winning chemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, “Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought” ( Good, Mayne, & Maynard Smith, 1963, p. 15 ). My conclusions already have been reflected on countless times; they simply have not been systematically presented and defended until now.