Posted on 09/30/2005 11:05:52 PM PDT by DeweyCA
For children to grow up under the thumb of a psychopath or narcissist is unbelievably difficult. Some inherit the problem, others subconsciencely seek out the same type of person.
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I hope that the kids had a taste of real life - that not everyone dominates others using cruelty, fear and anger.
The author's daughter has put it on the internet for academic and educational use for free!
The Mask of Sanity
I tried to provide that for them as a contrast, but apparently it is too late. There's still the 11 yr old, though.
Eeeek, it's 485 pages long! I bookmarked it, until I can buy more paper : )
Thank you very much for the link.
There are two women profiled as well. I just read the one about Anna again as a friend is in a relationship with someone like this.
And you never know what will happen later in life to the other ones. Knowing you did your best is sometimes the only solace.
I've heard about this book, and it's pretty shocking according to the poster. I most definitely want to read this.
Have they always been out there, but constrained by a society's rules that no longer exist? Or is our culture breeding them at a high rate of speed?
I've quit beating myself up about certain things.
The checklist that Bon Mots provided is excellent. I printed it out, and showed it to my bf. It describes his ex, my second oldest daughter's bf(didn't a checklist for him-he can't even pretend very well), and a couple of our past employers. All you can do is avoid contact.
The best books on the subject have been written by Dr. Robert Hare, the originator of the PCL-R checklist for identifying psychopaths. He is the world's leading expert on psychopaths.
Dr. Hare even consults with police departments. On one such consultation, the police were having trouble getting one psychopath to reveal all of his crimes. After consulting with Hare, he told them to get him to brag, so they went back to him and one of the cops said, "Ah, you ain't nuthin' compared to other serial killers like Gacey, etc..."
Whereupon, the pscyhopath then began bragging about his litany of previously unknown atrocities.
ROFL! Loved his storytelling.
The writers did an amazing job making him someone girls wanted to have sex with (the portugese waitress, the cleaning lady, the secretary). Of course, they were all his downfall in one way or another. :-)
Even wrote in a character that wanted to marry him, of all things! (Until he killed her with envelope glue).
I've heard of Cleckly and Hare. I didn't realize the book was written in 1941, though.
Yes, they love to brag. It's all about meeeee! I've also heard that if you denigrate them, they'll blow up all over the place and spill the beans. I think that might go more for narcissists. Sam Vaknin has a very good website, and one of the articles is, "How To Beat A Narcissist In Court".
Body and soul comprise an organic unity. When the the soul is deformed by the will with lies, it stands to reason that the body would be affected. The scientists have cause and effect reversed. It's impossible for simple matter to make a choice for evil, which is what a lie is.
John 8:44 (KJV)
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Women can 'read' men much better and faster than the other way around.>>>>>>>>>
If this be true, why are so many women taken in by men who take every advantage possible?
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