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The Sociopath Next Door - The Ruthless versus the Rest of Us (Paperback)
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The Sociopath Next Door - The Ruthless versus the Rest of Us (Paperback)
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Loot Price R210
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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.
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