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by Martha Stout (Author) "This morning, Joe, a thirty-year-old attorney, is running five minutes late for an extremely important meeting that, with or without him, will start promptly at..." (more)
Key Phrases: intervening sense, extreme conscience, people without conscience, Doreen Littlefield, Jackie Rubenstein, United States (more...)
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From Publishers Weekly
[Dr.] Stout says that as many as 4% of the population are conscienceless sociopaths who have no empathy or affectionate feelings for humans or animals. As Stout (The Myth of Sanity) explains, a sociopath is defined as someone who displays at least three of seven distinguishing characteristics, such as deceitfulness, impulsivity and a lack of remorse. Such people often have a superficial charm, which they exercise ruthlessly in order to get what they want. Stout argues that the development of sociopathy is due half to genetics and half to nongenetic influences that have not been clearly identified. The author offers three examples of such people, including Skip, the handsome, brilliant, superrich boy who enjoyed stabbing bullfrogs near his family's summer home, and Doreen, who lied about her credentials to get work at a psychiatric institute, manipulated her colleagues and, most cruelly, a patient. Dramatic as these tales are, they are composites, and while Stout is a good writer and her exploration of sociopaths can be arresting, this book occasionally appeals to readers' paranoia, as the book's title and its guidelines for dealing with sociopaths indicate.
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An outstanding audio production that plays out like a public television documentary, this timely piece by a psychotherapist uses colorful case histories to illustrate the major categories of people who have serious defects in their consciences. Some predatory, some covetous, others simply manipulative, they have no regard for the feelings or well-being of others and no internal brakes when it comes to acting out their largely self-serving antisocial agendas. Shelly Frasier is a wry and serious interpreter of this material, which is so fascinating in her hands and so seamlessly organized that it's nearly impossible to get away from it once you start listening. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Broadway (February 8, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 076791581X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0767915816
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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