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Explaining the sociopath

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Why Me?

December 1, 2011 //  by Travis Vining//  34 Comments

Editor's note: The following article refers to spiritual concepts. Please read Lovefraud's statement on Spiritual Recovery. My father is a sociopath.  He is also a convicted serial killer who resides on Florida's Death Row.  I idolized my dad as a kid and wanted to be just like him, but I could not.  Life, I thought, had betrayed me and given me something so cruel that I could never trust again.  I didn't believe that I could ever make sense of this experience. How could I possibly come to terms with having been raised by such a monster?  How could I possibly find peace in my life after being victimized as a child and young adult?  How could I come to terms with a question that I though …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Media sociopaths, Recovery from a sociopath, Sociopaths and family, Spiritual and energetic recovery

HIV-positive man convicted of sex with 11 women

November 25, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  31 Comments

Ohio law requires people who test positive for HIV to inform potential sex partners. A professional wrestler called "Gangsta of Love" was convicted of putting 11 women at risk. Read 'Gangsta of Love' faces decades in prison on News.Cincinnati.com. …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

“Beware the tyranny of the weak”

November 25, 2011 //  by Joyce Alexander//  136 Comments

By Joyce Alexander, RNP (Retired) I'm a sucker for “one line philosophies,” and sometimes I hear a new one that makes me perk up my ears and start to ponder on the phrase. Thus the quotes around today's title. The person who told me this, and said that she had heard it from her mother, I later came to believe is a psychopath. At the very least, she was incredibly demanding toward me, but all in the name of being “helpless” and therefore entitled to my help or entitled to doing it her way, entitled to inconvenience everyone else for her immediate gratification. Of course she never shouted at me to get her way, but was very soft spoken and politely demanded that her will be given in to …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

Psychopaths and neuro-law

November 16, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  120 Comments

The brains of psychopaths are different. What does that mean for laws, crime, sentencing and treatment? Read Psychopaths: Born evil or with a diseased brain? on BBC.co.uk. Link supplied by a Lovefraud reader. …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

Sociopaths Can Only Talk The Walk

November 15, 2011 //  by Mel Carnegie//  91 Comments

This week I have been reading Jon Ronson's book The Psychopath Test. It's been on my list of ”˜must reads' since it came out earlier this year, and just a couple of days ago I downloaded it on to my Kindle. I finished it within 24hours. Jon Ronson is a British journalist who, among many other things, wrote the film Men Who Stare At Goats, which was made in to a movie starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. Jon interviewed my friend Mary Turner Thomson (author of “The Bigamist” detailing her marriage to the sociopath Will Jordan) and became fascinated with the subject of psychopaths. He subsequently attended Dr Robert Hare's training programme to understand the PCL-R checklist that many …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Recovery from a sociopath

Lessons from the Penn State scandal

November 14, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  155 Comments

Like most of the United States, all of us at Lovefraud were horrified by the sordid story of child sexual abuse that emerged from Penn State University last week. Unlike most of the United States, we probably weren't surprised. That's because all of us at Lovefraud have learned a very difficult lesson that millions of other people have not learned. This is the lesson: Evil exists. For most of us, however, there was a time before the lesson. At that time we didn't know evil existed—let alone what it looked like or what to do about it. So at that time, we were vulnerable to the sociopaths. The sociopaths came into our lives, showering us with affection and maybe gifts, asking about o …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

The manipulative man interview

November 13, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  39 Comments

Lovefraud's friend Ann at WomenExplode.com recently posted an interview with a 49-year-old man who had never been married. The man engaged in serious impression management. But, since Ann had known him for 10 years, she knew when his words were BS—and pointed them out in her story. It's hysterical. Read Interview with a never-married 49-year-old man on WomenExplode.com. …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath

LETTERS TO LOVEFRAUD: Pornography Effect 101

November 9, 2011 //  by Lovefraud Reader//  68 Comments

By Marilisa Walker Following a heart wrenching break up of our nearly 11-year marriage, and after he ran our Chamber of Commerce award-winning businesses into the ground, stole all my money and drove off in our only car on a sizzling hot summer afternoon in August while I was taking a nap, I experienced "an overwhelming and overpowering feeling of not being able to make sense of it"—which is what I logged in my journal four months later. Throwing myself on the kitchen floor and sobbing uncontrollably, while these antics provided some emotional relief but horrified my dog—yet was I still left with an irreconcilable quandary. If I could only make sense of what happened between my hus …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Letters to Lovefraud and Spath Tales

A powerful sociopath taken down, and why we need to understand him

November 7, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  6 Comments

It's been awhile since I wrote about Vince Fumo, former Pennsylvania State Senator, representing Philadelphia, and now a resident of the federal prison camp in Ashland, Kentucky. In 2009, he was convicted of 137 counts of fraud, conspiracy, tax offenses and obstruction of justice. His crimes cost taxpayers and nonprofit organizations $4 million. Yet he received a sentence of only 55 months, which many, including me, considered to be a mere slap on the wrist. Federal prosecutors were so outraged at the leniency of Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter's sentence that they actually appealed it. The feds won. The appellate court found that Buckwalter had erred, and on Wednesday, Fumo will be in court …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Media sociopaths

Identifying speech patterns of psychopaths

November 5, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  47 Comments

Researchers used a computer analysis to compare the language of psychopathic and nonpsychopathic murderers. They discovered distinct differences. Read Psychopaths' words expose predatory mind on Futurity.org. Link supplied by a Lovefraud reader. …

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Category: Explaining the sociopath, Scientific research

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