Like us, Claudia Moscovici had her run-in with a psychopath, one that almost destroyed her marriage. Since then, like many of us, she has thoroughly researched this destructive personality disorder. She started a blog called “Psychopathy Awareness,” and wrote two books: a novel called The Seducer, and an upcoming nonfiction book called Dangerous Liaisons.
In her review of my book, Love Fraud—How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan, Claudia writes, “I didn’t think I could learn much more about the subject, but Donna’s book proved me wrong.”
Read the entire review on Psychopathy Awareness.
Love Fraud is available in the Lovefraud Store.
lesson learned
I perused the site last night for a bit.
Pretty good!
I don’t think there are ENOUGH sites about this. It isn’t about an exclusiveness in getting the word out. The MORE the merrier!
Claudia, I related a lot to your story. It wasn’t exactly the same by any means but there were words that definitely jumped out at me having been in a similar situation with an affair. You’re VERY brave to put yourself out there publicly to speak out about this. I take great courage from your efforts!
LL
ClaudiaMoscovici
Thanks so much to all of you for your support. I’ve been a passive member of lovefraud.com since December 2007, when I left the psychopath, horrified by what I was discovering he did and was. I particularly enjoyed Ox Drover’s comment, several years ago, about psychopaths being like snakes: no matter how much you pet them they still won’t grow fur and become a puppy:). I’m so grateful on so many levels, both personal and professional, for lovefraud.
Ox Drover
Claudia, great site! Thanks for all your work as well!
anitasee
Welcome Claudia, retroactively!. And to paraphrase Oxy, sorry for the experience that caused you to be here, but happy you found us.
Very keen to spend more time on your site, read the books etc. Your review of Donnas’ book has also encouraged me to finally get a copy.
Learning, healing and educating through these sites is one of the very positive outcomes from our collective experience, and sharing with remarkable survivors is also a continually enriching thing.
I would doubt that there is anyone who has not had a brush with a PSN. Perhaps not devastated by one, but still harmed in some way. This work of educating around sociopathy has no limits, as there are so very many sociopaths in the highest positions of power, everywhere.
Not just in our personal lives, but in the wheels and gears of life itself. I have come to believe that learning to reject the sociopathic seduction that is everywhere is part of the path to true consciousness .
Towanda girl!
PS. Very interested in your other writings as well. Thanks Donna for the article and the link.
ClaudiaMoscovici
Anitasee, thanks for your comment. Being a writer myself, I look for top quality writing that really engages you: and Donna’s book certainly does! Love Fraud is as factual and helpful as it gets but it reads like a good novel that you just can’t put down. As for the websites, there can’t be enough informative websites on psychopathy. There are tens of millions of psychopaths in the world (or more!) and they damage hundreds of millions of lives. It takes all of us working together for the information about personality disorders to become common knowledge.
skylar
Claudia,
thanks for your work spreading the word about the Evil-ones. We can’t have enough voices on this subject.
Anita,
It makes me so happy to read posts like yours because you have awareness of sociopathy outside of personal relationshits.
The sociopathic behavior is MOST common in politics and in marketing. It has become so common and acceptable to try to manipulate the hearts and minds of people that we actually have a name for it: MARKETING!
There is nothing in marketing strategies that sociopaths don’t already do. What does that say about our society? Not much hope, but we have to stay the course and pray that God has a plan to save us. Meanwhile, AWARENESS of ALL facets of sociopathy, narcissism and controlling personalities, is key.
The spath does serve a purpose: a perfect example of how not to be.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
sky – why does marketing exist? because we live in a market economy called CAPITALISM – don’t know, but perhaps you need to go to the root of your hypothesis, and not stop at ‘marketing.’
skylar
whoops, sky put foot in mouth.
One Joy, not putting down marketing so much, or even capitalism. Truth is, I’ve found myself knee deep in a marketing campaign to sell a product, so I’m reading up on all the tips and tricks for getting people to buy what you’re selling. I already knew most of it, but being in the middle of it – well it triggers me because everything I’m reading reminds me of stuff the spath did!
As far as capitalism or socialism or any other -ism, I think they would all work GREAT if spaths weren’t in there mucking up the works. Any one of those -isms could pump an economy to the point that people could be fed and clothed and kept warm and dry. I think that there would even be enough capital for research and improvements to life. But the spath mess it up no MATTER what you try to do.
So then we spend money on wars: the war on drugs, war on poverty, war on cancer, war on terror, war on blah blah blah.
One war on spaths would conquer all because they are the ROOT cause of misery. And yes, they do cause cancer! They destroy our immune systems with stress!
Marketing is fun actually. It’s just that the insidious depths that marketers have reached into our minds, our beliefs and our identities is sinister. I know that everything I think is not necessarily my own choice, I’m influenced every day. Scary thought.
skylar
BTW, One Joy,
how are you feeling? I read how busy you’ve been, me too.
Today the pipes burst and I had no water. wahhh! I don’t do well without running water. I had to go out the door with no shower and eat in restaurants and even brush my teeth there. BF finally got the pipe thawed and fixed this evening. But the hot water isn’t up yet. I was extremely crabby today. I’ve been noticing that I’m turning into my BF and he is turning into ME! He was calming and nurturing while I became a cussing crabby baby. I’ve become slovenly, and he has become much more hygenic. I’ve gained 20 lbs and he lost 20 lbs. (I really HATE THAT) Seems like I’ve picked up all his bad habits like sleeping late, and he began getting up early when he met me.
What the heck is happening?
ClaudiaMoscovici
Skylar, I agree with your analogy to marketing: psychopaths are like those Nigerian scams (in fact, those guys are probably psychopaths and certainly are con men and frauds). Psychopaths provide false information marketed as the real deal (true love, real partnership, mutual respect, lucrative business ventures). But they don’t deliver the goods, just the opposite. They deplete you on all levels. However, I also believe in good marketing for quality services or products. Without some marketing strategies, whatever you do, even if it’s for a much-needed and humanitarian cause such as this one, gets lost since nobody ever finds out about it. You become just one drop in an ocean of information.