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Defense Against the Psychopath: A Brief Introduction to Human Predators
This is a brief study guide to teach people how to recognize and defend against our society's most dangerous predators, psychopaths. Of all the criminal types that inhabit our society, the psychopath is by far the most destructive, the most successful, and the least understood. For these reasons, any self-defense program must begin with a study of the most dangerous predator on the planet.
32 pages, Paperback
First published October 25, 2011
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October 16, 2020
Cursory at best. Personally, I feel this is just a watered-down version of George K. Simon's fantastic In Sheep's Clothing. More than that, it feels like this man has been marinating in some sort of manic, feverish 'truth' that he has found, rather than coming off as an impartial, intellectually honest social scientist. Especially when he says something like "a psychopath is a cancer cell". Whether that is right or wrong, that's just not something any scholar worth their salt would say, as it eviscerates any shred of credibility.
It's not even that its 'terrible' per se, just that its not in-depth enough, at least for my taste, and it takes its conclusions as self-evident and I find that saying—even though this is from an interview regarding the book—"Our culture is predominantly psychopathic", or saying "modern art is ugly"—is not self-evident at all. (Even though I predominantly agree with the majority of his latter point, he makes a poor effort in proving it.)
Point being: ditch this book, and listen to what an actual psychopath has to say an actual psychopath has to say, or find a more reputable book. Especially one that decides not to bank on a psychological term that hasn't been used by a respectable, current scholar since probably the 1960's.
It's not even that its 'terrible' per se, just that its not in-depth enough, at least for my taste, and it takes its conclusions as self-evident and I find that saying—even though this is from an interview regarding the book—"Our culture is predominantly psychopathic", or saying "modern art is ugly"—is not self-evident at all. (Even though I predominantly agree with the majority of his latter point, he makes a poor effort in proving it.)
Point being: ditch this book, and listen to what an actual psychopath has to say an actual psychopath has to say, or find a more reputable book. Especially one that decides not to bank on a psychological term that hasn't been used by a respectable, current scholar since probably the 1960's.
May 19, 2017
Es una lectura rápida con información útil. Habla de los tipos de psicópatas, sus motivaciones y carencias. Además de que ofrece algunos consejos de cómo lidiar con ellos.
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