Reddit reviews The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
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Broadway Books
https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-Conscience/dp/0770435866
Also this is my first time posting on this subreddit so sorry if this is wrong format. I'm honestly over Kati already.
I've read like 4 or 5 books on sociopaths. Of all of them, that one is the most bullshit. It's written by a journalist who just wanted to make headlines with his book. It's sensationalist as hell.
Have you read it? Its tabloid trash. Here is a far better book on the subject (while still being engaging):
https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-Conscience/dp/0770435866
Edit: And from the wiki link:
>The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP) published a statement – signed by some of the scientists featured in Ronson's book, including Robert D. Hare and Essi Viding – stating that certain interviews in it were exaggerated or fictionalised and that they "think that Ronson's book trivializes a serious personality disorder and its measurement, which is not helpful to those who have the disorder or to their unfortunate victims". Others complaints focused on Ronson's point of view which complainants thought was very one-sided throughout the book
I have some experience with these people IRL. Their defining characteristic - which is ironic considering the glamourisation of them in Hollywood as criminal masterminds - is they live a "zombified" life which is a disability similar to an emotional coma. They're also not particularly charismatic, as often described. Their emotional development stalled in childhood, along with any higher functioning mammalian brain (i.e. the simplicity of child-like reptilian pain/pleasure response, rather than nuanced processing).
The best example is the reply one gave when i asked him: "what is empathy?"
His answer? "Listening".
He had no idea what it was, but he could describe what it looked like, and had spent a lifetime learning to mimic it so he wouldn't stand out. They're just not.... there. People without creativity, ambition, or any ability to sense signals in/from others. Andrei Chikatilo was simply the most empty and boring human being imaginable - not a Lector, Bateman, or West.
Best book you will find on the subject:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Conscience/dp/0770435866