antisocial personality disorders

Diagnosed sociopath M.E. Thomas draws on her own experiences and scientific literature to describe characteristics of sociopaths, discusses suspicions and myths about them, and argues they are not inherently evil and can be useful to society.

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-one in twenty-five-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 twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.How do we recognize the remorseless?.

"John and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use. Meanwhile, Brooke's fractured psyche teeters on the edge of oblivion, overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of dead personalities sharing her mind. She flips in and out of lucidity, manifesting new names and thoughts and memories every day, until, at last, the one personality pops up that John never expected and has no idea how to deal with"--Provided by publisher.

"Kent A. Kiehl, who created the Mind Mobil MRI System to study psychopaths in prison populations, has collected the world's largest repository of forensic neuroscience, with scans of more than five hundred psychopaths and three thousand criminal offenders at eight facilities in several states. Kiehl's research has shown that the brains of psychopaths are structurally different from normal brains, offering new clues to how to predict and treat the disease"--Provided by publisher.

A career memoir of neuroscientist James Fallon, describing how while studying his family's brain scans for research he discovered that his own scan reflected a pattern similar to those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.

Carrie Pilby, an antisocial nineteen-year-old college graduate whose only consistent link to the world outside her New York apartment is her therapist, begins a step-by-step attempt to appreciate the company of others and wrestles with questions about relationships and morality.

Examines antisocial personality disorder, the mysterious mental condition that underlies a lifelong penchant for bad behavior.

Describes "almost psychopaths," people who display many of the qualities of psychopaths, but with less intensity and consistency, pointing out how to recognize these individuals, how to make sense of interactions with them, how to deal with them in the present, and how to make informed decisions about future dealings with them.