Joanne Intra­tor’s life has been shaped by being the daugh­ter of two Ger­man Jew­ish refugees. After study­ing Ger­man his­to­ry at Con­necti­cut Col­lege, she received an MD from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and became a psy­chi­a­trist with the exper­tise in abnor­mal behav­ior. She spear­head­ed the first brain imag­ing research on well-char­ac­ter­ized psy­chopaths, which was pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Bio­log­i­cal Psy­chi­a­try. Her jour­ney has been the sub­ject of news arti­cles, tele­vi­sion inter­views and muse­um exhibits. Joanne prac­tices psy­chi­a­try in New York City and writes a blog on psy­chopa­thy for Psy­chol­o­gy Today.