by Martha Stout
This book came up in a class I took a few years ago. The teacher mentioned that she was reading it and briefly discussed what she thought about it. At that time I was working in a highly political environment and struggled to maintain my work-life balance while I wondered everyday: what is wrong wit...
I had read this years ago but just recently thought about it because it was referenced in the book I'm currently reading. I thought then, as I think now, that it could very well be true. Give me a good schizophrenic any day over a sociopath or a psychopath, please. They have much better dreams, too....
Listened to this audiobook. Unfortunately I had just finished the Psychopath Test, which was excellent so this book seemed a little redundant.The overall theme is human conscience - what is it, what does it mean to have it (for the individual and society), and what does it mean to lack it.My problem...
This is a good, though somewhat light (being intended for the pop-psych crowd) description of just what a sociopath is, what makes them tick, how to recognize them, and how to avoid them. It's not full of gruesome crimes or case studies, because Stout's key message is that sociopaths, for the most p...
There's a whole lot of fear mongering going on here. The Sociopath Next Door, I'd give it 2.5. I keep going back and forth between 2 and 3 stars. According to Martha Stout, just about everyone knows a few sociopaths.......DUH. I know two people for sure that I used to work with....they were chill...
+ Case studies illuminate the range of expressions of sociopathy- Overgeneralizations abound, factual errors, contradictory interpretations of behaviorI rarely pan books. Even when I was reviewing for Publisher's Weekly, I tried to emp
The author asks “Why have a conscience?” She argues that being truly human entails having one, and warns the majority of us about the four percent of people who are sociopaths. This is a chilling book. I have met people who fit her description. One need not be a serial killer to be a sociopath. One...
This is a book I found by listening to an interview by the author when I was researching information about manipulativeness, covert-aggressiveness, and lack of conscience after reading the book "In Sheep's Clothing" which I reviewed a few days ago. The good part about it is the lady really has year...
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