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Treating sexually active priests

May 12, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  46 Comments

A psychologist who treats priests was not  surprised by continuing revelations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. But there was something that surprised him: "It was a surprise for me to see how many psychopaths I met in the priesthood," Dr. Leslie Lothstein said. "Glib, callous, could say anything to you and be charming." Read A psychologist steeped in treatment of sexually active priests, on nytimes.com. Link suggested by a Lovefraud reader. …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

What sociopaths want: power, control and sex

May 10, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  481 Comments

The two most recent Letters to Lovefraud both had the same theme: Sociopathic men who relentlessly pursued women, proclaiming their love, making glowing promises of a committed relationship. The men pushed for sex, and although the women resisted, eventually, believing they were involved in real romances, the women succumbed to the men's physical desires. With that, both women were dumped. Read the letters here: I met him on Facebook, was used for sex and dumped the next day I felt bonded, even though this made me nauseated Both women were astounded at how they were unceremoniously booted. They had a hard time coming to grips with the idea that they'd been used and abused. How …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

Why do they kill?

May 8, 2010 //  by Liane Leedom, M.D.//  88 Comments

Anyone who is interested in the topic of domestic violence should read Why Do They Kill? by David Adams. The book describes Adams' detailed interviews of men who were convicted of killing their partners, and women who were victims of attempted murder. The breakthrough here is that Dr. Adams' findings are in complete agreement with those of Dr. Dutton. There is now little doubt that terroristic batterers have psychopathic personality traits. Because David Adams' findings are so important I want to summarize them here, then so as not to throw too much at you at once, next week I'll relate these findings to psychopathic personality traits and explain why I would call these individuals …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Scientific research, Sociopaths and family

The Bluebird of Happiness

May 7, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  68 Comments

By Ox Drover Today I had an epiphany: I am happy. Really happy. Joyously happy. Exuberantly happy. Why is today different that any other day? Two months ago I was unhappy. Why am I now happy? Nothing much has really changed from two months ago. I'm a few pounds lighter, but that isn't what makes me happy, though, I am working on losing some weight. My bank account is quite a bit lighter than it was two months ago, so that isn't what is making me happy. The psychopaths in my life don't like me one bit more than they did two months ago. I haven't found the love of my life riding on a white horse, or even a white donkey. What is making me happy? Well, today I saw the “Bluebird of H …

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Category: Recovery from a sociopath

The Lovefraud message, a step further

May 2, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  2 Comments

Many readers have told me that Lovefraud is the most comprehensive website about sociopaths on the Internet. According to Google Analytics, Lovefraud gets more than 50,000 visits a month, and of them, almost half are returning visitors. People return, I'm sure, because of the Lovefraud Blog. As of May 1, 2010, a total of 716 articles, and more than 72,400 comments were posted on the blog. We have a vibrant, helpful conversation going.  We talk about why sociopaths do what they do, how we fell into the trap, how we can recover, and the huge problem that these predators represent in the world. Anything related to sociopaths is fair game for discussion on the Lovefraud Blog. So why am I …

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Category: Book reviews

Loving ourselves–one piece at a time

April 30, 2010 //  by Lovefraud Reader//  395 Comments

By Ox Drover One of the things we hear frequently on LoveFraud and in self help books we might read is to “love yourself.” This sounds like great advice, but the thing is no one ever tells me exactly how to do this. Some suggestions for increasing my “self love” and “self esteem” given in various books and articles are to use “positive affirmations” such as “I am wonderful,” or some other positive self talk that I should repeat over and over inside my head until I eventually start to believe it. Even though I might say these phrases over and over, no matter how positive and “self affirming” they may sounds, somehow I never seem to truly believe them. After saying them over and over i …

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Category: Recovery from a sociopath

Sociopaths As Discarders

April 29, 2010 //  by Steve Becker, LCSW//  347 Comments

In my last LoveFraud article I discussed strategies for vetting your new partner for “personality skeletons” lurking in the “apparent” history. I'd like to focus, here, more specifically (and in more depth) on individuals with a pattern of discarding the people in their lives. Sociopaths and other seriously disturbed narcissistic personality types will have this history—that is, a history (past and recent) that's almost certainly littered with friends, family, and anyone who was once useful, whom they've cast off ostensibly for one or another reason. As best as possible we want to glean this history, if it's applicable and somehow accessible. In such cases, we want to ensure that bli …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

TARGETED TEENS AND 20s: I met him on Facebook, was used for sex and dumped the next day

April 28, 2010 //  by Lovefraud Reader//  245 Comments

Editor's note: Lovefraud received this e-mail from a reader whom we'll call “Lara.” About three months ago, I met a 34-year-old German banker from Munich online (he added me on Facebook), after being very hesitant to speak to him, I gave into his persistence and we started a whirlwind romance over the phone for two months. He asked me to meet him in Paris and I did a few weeks ago, only to be dumped the day after we had sex together. I have been asking myself for answers but it was only recently that my friend brought to my attention that Y (German banker) exhibited the key traits of a sociopath. Y added me randomly on Facebook and we had one mutual friend (A fellow Korean Uni student a …

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Category: Targeted Teens and 20s

Respite for adopted Russian children and their parents

April 27, 2010 //  by Donna Andersen//  6 Comments

Many Russian children adopted by Americans suffer from the legacy of fetal alcohol syndrome, institutionalization, poverty and socially corrosive survival skills. A ranch in Montana gives them—and their parents—a break. Read Russian adoptees get a respite on the range, on NYTimes.com. Link submitted by a Lovefraud reader. …

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Category: For parents of sociopaths, Sociopaths and family

Psychopathic parents and the disappearance of baby Gabriel Johnson

April 23, 2010 //  by Lovefraud Reader//  77 Comments

By Ox Drover In the last few years the national media have picked up several stories of psychopaths using their children as weapons to inflict severe emotional damage to the nurturing parent. In the “Clark Rockefeller” case, the man posing as a member of the Rockefeller family kidnapped his daughter from a supervised visitation and held her hostage for several days before he was found. Another case featured here in a Lovefraud article was about Dr. Amy Castillo's three children being murdered by her husband to inflict punishment on her after she had warned the judge that her ex-husband had made this very threat. In spite of this, the judge let the psychopath have unsupervised visi …

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Category: Laws and courts, Sociopaths and family

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