The Sociopath Next Door
by:
Martha Stout (author)
A practicing psychotherapist takes a hard look at the sociopaths--individuals with an antisocial personality disorder who possess no conscience or sense of guilt or shame--that we encounter in everyday life.
A practicing psychotherapist takes a hard look at the sociopaths--individuals with an antisocial personality disorder who possess no conscience or sense of guilt or shame--that we encounter in everyday life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780739456743 (0739456741)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 241
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Science,
Health,
Self Help,
Education,
Sociology,
Crime,
True Crime,
Psychology,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Social Science
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...
9 years ago
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