Plenty of scientific researchers have studied psychopaths. But few have studied the victims of psychopaths, so there is little documentation of what we have all been through.
Perhaps that is beginning to change.
Lovefraud has been contacted by a researcher from Carleton University in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada. She is conducting a study entitled Victimization, coping, and social support of adult survivors of psychopaths. The graduate student is working under the supervision of Dr. Adelle Forth, who is a colleague of Dr. Robert Hare.
The purpose of the study is “to gain an understanding of the victimization experiences of adult (18+) survivors of psychopaths, in an attempt to raise awareness amongst the general public, and mental health and criminal justice professionals.”
Everyone at Lovefraud is invited to participate.
The researcher has developed a web-based survey. The survey has both self-report scales and open-ended questions. You will be asked to rate the presence or absence of psychopathic traits of the most recent psychopathic individual you have been involved with on one scale. Questions revolve around demographics, your relationship and experiences with the psychopath, including being deceived and its impact on your mental and physical health, your ways of coping, and your support networks. The survey does not ask for any information that might identify you.
Completing the survey will take approximately one hour, and Lovefraud strongly encourages you to participate. If you are concerned about your safety, please be sure to take appropriate precautions.
Here—finally—is a chance to develop information that may make a difference in how victims of psychopaths are viewed and treated. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity.
Data is being collected from now until Dec. 31, 2008. Be sure to add your voice.
Indigoblue
See the Snake has alwasys gotten the bad rap it just aint fair ! OH thats Life isn’t Fair Oh Oh the Psy/Soc Isn’t Fair see I can make anything fit in here :)~ LOVE jere
blondie
is that a book or a website?
Stargazer
It’s true. Sorry to have insulted snakes by comparing them to sociopaths. lol
Indigoblue
Naw you did’nt insult them you love them! Star I had a Gaboon Viper she was 1foot when I got her and 5 feet when she died ! LOVE jere
Indigoblue
Web site Blondie
Stargazer
You kept hots?????? (That’s venomous snakes for the lay people). Gaboon vipers are some of the deadliest, aren’t they? A guy recently got bit in the face by one. I don’t know if he survived. You certainly like to live on the edge!
Indigoblue
I had 2 water mocasons 1cainbreak 6copperheads a gaboon and a corn and a garter the garter had 64 babies!
Psy/Soc are not Poisioness because you can eat them !
They are venemous and when you get bit your going to need LOVEFRAUD emergency treatment :)~
Jen2008
Stargazer said: “Sorry to have insulted snakes by comparing them to sociopaths”
I would have agreed with that statement until I came face to face with a snake in my attic. I was about 7 or 8 feet from him and he raised his upper body up from behind a board and just stayed in that position staring at me (or whatever snakes do). I froze for a minute, then slowly backed the several feet back to the attic stairs and got the heck outta there. Gotta get somebody out here to get rid of him. Guess this explains the weird noises I’ve been hearing lately at night coming from the attic. All this snake talk is giving me the creeps–lol. I don’t know which is worse now, sociopaths or snakes. I’m leaning towards snakes. 🙂
Indigoblue
Jen the Snake is your friend they eat the rats or mice that make the noise in your atic LOVE jere
Stargazer
Jen,
Of all the luck!!!! I keep hearing stories of people finding snakes in their toilet, in their washing machine, in their back yard, on their front porch………me, I actually go out into the wilderness LOOKING for the little darlings. Ya think I’d find even one? Never happens. I’m curious how a giant snake got into your attic though. He was probably somebody’s pet and probably waiting for you to cuddle with him.