The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, by Martha Stout, Ph.D., will be the topic of discussion at a New York City Barnes & Noble Book Store on April 22, 2010, at 7 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Non-Fiction Reading Club at the Barnes & Noble at 86th and Lexington Avenue. All are welcome.
Event announcement provided by a Lovefraud reader.
Quantum Solace
I like the fact that the book is being discussed by the “Non-Fiction Reading Club” – Ha! Goes to show you that you just can’t make this stuff up.
I have to get a hold of that book and read it. I know it’s a good one.
Buttons
Quantum Solace, it is a fantastic read. I was able to absorb the information, academically, but I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that spaths do not have a conscience or empathy and can mimic normal human emotion so well that they’re able to move through society without detection.
bulletproof
I loved this book. It clarified everything and I read it in a couple of sittings because I couldn’t put it down. There is a terrifying story about a spath therapist and what she did to “block” progress in the client who was beginning to get better (and possibly be a threat)
The thought of a spath ‘in charge’ of the sick or elderly makes me want to curl up and die.
Hideous, chilling….the stuff of nightmares. I’m so glad I was healthy enough to get away. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Ox Drover
I just ordered a copy of this book to send to a friend. He is a minister and a very loving man, but really has little idea about psychopaths, and I think this particular book would be best for him to start learning about them.
I’d be interested to be at that “book club” discussion. Wonder what all they would say if they hadn’t had contact with a pscychopath.
Buttons
What a wonderful thing for you to do, OxDrover. Most genuine people on The Path have a strong belief in the goodness of mankind, and that everyone can be redeemed. I feel strongly that everyone has the “option” of redemption, but it’s not a mandate. For a person who truly Walks The Path, the very idea that someone out there has no empathy, remorse, or conscience is incomprehensible – it just can’t be. What better target can there be? Your gift will be enlightening and valuable.
Ox Drover
This man is a wonderful man and through our discussions through the years he has come to realize already that not everyone who pretends to walk the path does so. I just thought that this particular book would speak to him though.
One of the nice things about the internet is the availability of cheap used but almost like new books. I’m a book a holic myself and I purchase books for others that I think they would enjoy. It is an inexpensive way for me to Be “generous” and to share with my friends who are at a distance.
jane smith
hi there – i have been lurking here on this forum a long time. i live near this bookstore and have read this book. i am really curious about going to this discussion.
the sociopath i knew reached a new low yesterday. he sent a private facebook email to a mutual friend of ours (she was his friend on facebook – i do not use facebook) and the email said that they regretted to inform her that he had passed away 2 months before and she and any friends were welcome to send condolences to an email address given. (that email address given was his own – i recognized it, she had never seen it) the email was signed by his parents. what parents know their 39 yr old childs facebook and email passwords?!
then his entire facebook acct was deleted.
my friend freaked out and contacted me. of course i was worried he really was dead, but once she showed me the email, and shared some other things he had told her in their occiasional correspondence (lies), i realized he must of been so bored that he would pretend he was dead to see what kind of sympathy ’emails’ he would get. good lord.
i have basically reached the point where i no longer get angry. i honestly believe at this point he cannot help it. even these nasty horrible events he cannot help.
thankfully i have been NC almost 2 years!!
thanks to everyone who participates in this forum, it has really helped me.
neveragain
Wow! That IS really a low!
sabrina
Jane, I sure hope you get the chance to go to the book discussion. It would be great to have some “real” life representation from Lf!
Neveragain- I’m with ya on the comment “That is really a low!”
My 21 y.o. spath son did something very similar. Unbeknownst to me, he borrowed my phone 6 mos or so ago, and text his x girlfriend pretending to be me, his mom saying that he had died in an accident. He went on to say to her that “Johnny REALLY loved you, and probally would still be with us if he had not been so devastated when you broke up with him!!
She knew immediately it was a huge lie as she knew there is no way I would have said anything like that ! EVIL DORKS they are!!
Ox Drover
From their keyboards to God’s ears.