[bronxville]

The Sociopath Next Door (or I'm convinced a Pychopath in the WH)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076791581X/qid=1133179720/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-4340866-4794240?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[hinckley buzzard]

Hervey Cleckley, 1982: The Mask of Sanity.

Just thought you'd all like to know where this material was plagiarized from.

[ncalburt]

Boy they are describing the two wackos in the WH to a tee.Scary

[Just another Joe]

I have, many times, described myself as a functioning psychopath.

Do I have a conscience? I really don't know.

Have I ever felt guilt? No.

On the other hand I have felt shame, but not about what I believe others to feel that emotion.

And then again, to me, family is everything.
If you have ever read any of the Louie LaMour Sackett western series, that is ALL of my family's take on family.
When family calls you answer that call if humanly possible.

Am I a true psychopath? Probably not but functioning psyochopath is a pretty close description.

[Solar Wind]

Thank you for posting. "The Sociopath Next Door" is an essential book for navigating through life. It is a difficult book to read if you have not grappled with the fact that not all people in everyday life are like you.

I was once told that one of the hardest things in life is for good people to realize that evil exists because it is so unlike them. This book is written with actual accounts from this doctor's practice. It lists the clinical signs and symptoms so that you can identify if you are dealing with or are in a relationship with a sociopath.

One in twenty five is a chilling figure to come to grips with. Knowledge is power so I recommend that everyone read this book. It is an eye opener and very liberating to read it.

Regards, Mr. Sol

[ncalburt]

The more I read about the Psychopath and mask of sanity . It really fits the entire Dem party

Barry and Ms Food Police
Reid
Durbin
Schummer
Ted Kennedy
Pelosi
Weiner
Debbie Blabber-Mouth
Maxine Waters
Boxer
Hawkins
Kerry
Bill and Hillary
Soros
Buffet
Sen Nelson ( FL)
Edwards
Gore
Patty Murray
Barney Frank
GE's Igar
The News Anchors/Reporters at MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CNN,CBS,

The list of leftist media people and Dem congress people is infinite. All are ruthless ,bold faced Liars, soul less , power hungry and money hungry creatures.

Creepy

[Lady Lucky]

I sometimes think there are people without souls, because they are without feeling for others. First Corinthians has something to offer on the matter:

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.”

[SoJoCo]

Another good book along the same vein is “The Psychopath Test” by Joe Ronson.

[Travis McGee]

Then, like a secret vampire cult, they can "tap" one another into the secret society. Obama, Holder, Napolitano, her Fast and Furious crew of career proteges...that the MSM diligently refuses to cover...

One psychopath can be a menace to his family, his neigbors, his circle.

A strata of secret Stalinists is waiting to figure out the train schedules, and how to get us to that point.

Treasure that 2nd Amd, folks.

[marktwain]

I watch for little things that cue me that the person does not consider other peoples rights or concerns. If I notice some evidence of that, even in what seems to be a small case, the alarms bells start going off.

I recall someone in one of my first CCW classes. He had to kill two people in self defense about 30 years ago. He picked up three hitchhikers. One of them turned the radio station dial to stations that she wanted, without asking. Later, they put him in his trunk, and he listened to them ploting to take him out in the desert to torture and kill him.

Now, when I see someone do something like that (turning the radio dial in another person's car while the ride is a favor, without asking), my alerts go sky high.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I have an interesting take on psychopathia. Oddly enough, that the range of variation among psychopaths is so great, that as a group, they are the natural human state.

Caring and empathy, however, are the aberration. Caring only exists in a very narrow psychological range. About any effort to change your state of awareness, in any direction, and caring goes right out the window. Yet people put vast amounts of attention into this small function, to the point where they assume that caring is the natural state of mind.

Most people actually like psychopaths, as people, and especially as leaders, because they do not qualify what they do with emotion. “You always know where you stand” with a psychopath, even if he is lying to you. They are often thought of as competent, intelligent, and objective, because their ideas are not clouded with caring.

[Mariner]

"The individuals who constitute this 4 percent drain our relationships, our bank accounts, our accomplishments, our self-esteem, our very peace on earth. "

They are also your war heroes and surgeons. Cops. Firefighters.

While the writer refers to Sociopaths, the book, Mask of Sanity, refers to them as what they are: Psychopaths.

The vast majority of Psychopaths are not bad people. They have enormous impacts on human society both good and bad.