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Martha Stout - Sociopath Next Door, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Sociopath Next Door

The Ruthless versus the Rest of Us

Av Martha Stout

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WHO IS THE DEVIL YOU KNOW? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He's a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people- 1 in 25 - has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in 25 everyday people, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbour, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They're more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others' suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know - someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for - is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game.It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-07-08
  • Mått: 150 x 210 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 300 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: John Murray Press
  • ISBN: 9781529331271
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Martha Stout, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in private practice, served on the faculty in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years. She is also the author of The Myth of Sanity. She lives on Cape Ann in Massachusetts, US.

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A fascinating, important book about what makes good people good and bad people bad, and how good people can protect themselves from those others.

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 5/5 Lotta

    Den här boken ger en tydlig bild av sociopater och hur de fungerar. Det är något jag har letat efter och hittat först nu. Jag har råkat ut för mer än en sociopat mitt liv och inte förstått mig på dem. Det märks att förrfattaren kan sitt ämne.

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  2. 4/5 Richard

    Jag gillade boken, men hade gärna sett lite mer konkreta tips gällade "sociopater" vad gäller identifiering och hantering. Det läggs lite för stort fokus på anekdotiska berättelser, som även om de bygger förståelse initialt, så tröttnar man snabbt på att så många ord spenderas för att få fram ganska enkla poänger. Dock vill jag säga att boken inte är vag, så man får garanterat viss behållning av den.

  3. 3/5 Therése L

    Som titeln går att läsa, beskrivs sociopaten ur ett perspektiv att en kan finnas omkring en i samhället i olika positioner och skepnader, men har karaktäristiska drag. Man kan dock önska mer av fördjupning i ämnet, som varför, hur hanterar vi det mm? Men det kan finnas en förklaring till detta som att det är komplexa personligheter och mer forskning kring ämnet behövs.

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