Other Titles in the Psychology of Series -- Title Page -- Introduction -- PREDATOR ON THE PROWL -- Psychopathy: Dexter's Disconnect -- Pass the Shrink Wrap, Please: The Organized Homicidal Offender -- Dex, Sex, and Sadism -- RETHINKING DEXTER -- The Misdiagnosis -- The Trouble with the Psychopathic Label -- Childhood Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -- The Anti-Self: Identifying with the Aggressor -- The Critical Inner Voice -- Projection of a Parent's Negative Traits -- Intergenerational Trauma -- Effective Therapies -- NAUGHTY BY NATURE, DEXTER BY DESIGN -- Nature and Nurture -- Creating a Monster -- All in the Family -- Beyond Nature -- The Importance of Harry -- The Butterfly Effect -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEXTER'S KILLS -- Modus Operandi -- The Signature -- Victimology -- The Nail in the Coffin -- DECEPTION: IT'S WHAT DEXTER DOES BEST (WELL, SECOND BEST) -- Lying in the Lives of Ordinary Humans -- The Dexter Morgan Show: The Writer/Director Tries to Make It Unremarkable -- What Makes Dexter Such an Extraordinarily Successful Liar? -- NO EMOTIONS? NO PROBLEM -- NO CONSCIENCE? NO PROBLEM -- DEXTER'S NO DUMMY -- Rita, Deb, and All His Colleagues and Friends: Dexter's Unwitting Enablers -- Dexter's Cousins in Crime -- THE SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER -- The Compensation Model: Does Dexter Compensate? -- The Segmentation Model: Leaving Work at Work -- The Spillover Model: Blood Isn't the Messiest Thing, After All . . . -- Season Four -- ON BECOMING A REAL BOY -- Born in Blood or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? -- Dramatically Deceptive Dexter -- The Mask Is Slipping -- THE ANGELS ON HIS SHOULDER -- Camilla: The Invisible Mother -- Debra: The Better Half -- Rita: The Infiltrator -- THE DARK PASSENGER IN ALL OF US -- Freud, Jung, and the Psychology of Evil -- Jungian Psychology -- Freud's Id, Ego, and Superego -- THE DARK DEFENDERS.

Denial -- Sublimation -- Intellectualization -- Identification -- The Dark Defender: Dexter's Mind -- How Will It End? -- IT'S ALL ABOUT HARRY -- Personality and Behavioral Traits of Adult Children of Narcissistic Families -- Elements of a Narcissistic Family System -- Healing -- THE KILLER WITHIN -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Borderline Personality Disorder -- Narcissistic Personality Disorder -- RITA'S ROCKY RELATIONSHIPS -- Abusive Relationships -- Rita's Post-Traumatic Stress -- The Ghost of Abuse Past -- Dexter's Psychological Abuse -- DENIAL AND RITA -- Is Rita Really Unaware of the Dark Passenger? Her Motives -- But Do We Like Her? Rita's Connection With Viewers -- Rita, Women, and Aggression -- Final Analysis: Crime and Punishment -- WHY PSYCHOPATHS LIKE DEXTER AREN'T REALLY ALL THAT BAD -- FASTER, DEXTER! KILL! KILL! -- Rooting for Dexter in the Moment -- Reflecting on a Serial Killer -- BEING DEXTER MORGAN -- Copyright Page.