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The Psychopath - Favourite Excerpts
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"Never blame yourself for what others choose to do."
B.E. McKinley
"He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time, but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride. You will be left much sadder but not a lot wiser, and for a long time you will wonder what happened and what you did wrong. And if another of his kind comes knocking at your door, will you open it?"
Without Conscience - The Disturbing World of The Psychopaths Among Us by
Robert Hare, PhD
Hare, in his 1993 book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us, says: "Psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plow their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, and empty wallets. Completely lacking in conscience and feelings for others, they selfishly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret."
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I'm alone in my living room and I'm yelling at my TV. "Forget rehabilitation -- that guy is a psychopath." Ever since I visited Dr. Robert Hare in Vancouver I can see them, the psychopaths. It's pretty easy, once you know how to look
After thirty-five years of work, Bob Hare has brought us to the stage where we know what psychopathy is, how much damage psychopaths do, and even how to identify them. But we don't know how to treat them or protect the population from them.
The condition itself has been recognized for centuries, wearing evocative labels such as "madness without delirium" and "moral insanity" until the late 1800s, when "psychopath" was coined by a German clinician. But the term (and its 1930s synonym, sociopath) had always been a sort of catch-all, widely and loosely applied to criminals who seemed violent and unstable.
“In fact, several studies have shown that existing treatment makes criminal psychopaths worse. In one, psychopaths who underwent social-skills and anger-management training before release had an 82 percent reconviction rate. Psychopaths who didn't take the program had a 59 percent reconviction rate.”
What about the majority, the subclinical psychopaths milling all around us? At the moment, the only thing Hare and his colleagues can offer is self-protection through self-education. Know your own weaknesses, they advise, because the psychopath will find and use them. Learn to recognize the psychopath, they tell us, before adding that even experts are regularly taken in.
Dr. Robert Hare Interview PSYCHOPATHS AMONG Us. “Take a Look Around” By Robert Hercz
http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
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The best way to protect yourself from a sociopath is to avoid him, to refuse any kind of contact or communication.
Thirteen Rules for Dealing with Sociopaths in Everyday Life Martha Stout - Interview
Author: The Sociopath Next Door
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=1097
For some the question, "Does evil exist?" is philosophical. But for those who've been victimized, there is no question at all.
The Difference Between "Sick" and "Evil" By Andrew Vachss
http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/parade_071402.html
A young psychopath who had inflicted multiple stab wounds on an elderly woman, and was charged with attempted murder, appeared subdued and appropriately sad about the offence during the early stages of a first interview. His eyes were moist as he accurately described how the woman must have felt during and after the attack. But later in the same interview, after good rapport had been established, this boy blurted out, "I don't know what all the fuss is about. The old bag only had a dozen scratches." To my knowledge, in all his subsequent years in the psychiatric hospital, he stuck to all the right lines of remorse which he quickly learned were more appropriate and useful. The bright psychopath, the experienced psychopath, doesn't stumble like that very often.
The Partial Psychopath by Elliott Barker, M.D. and B. Shipton, Ph.D.
http://www.naturalchild.com/elliott_barker/partial_psychopath.html
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