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A brilliant, deeply dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches -- perhaps because she bears her own invisible scars: Only five years old when she witnessed her parents' deaths in a bloody murder-suicide, Grace took refuge in her fierce intellect and found comfort in the loving couple who adopted her. But even as an adult with an accomplished professional life, Grace still has a dark, secret side....
3) Fear Nothing
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" In #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Detective D. D. Warren must face a new fear as a serial killer terrorizes Boston. My name is Dr. Adeline Glen. Due to a genetic condition, I can't feel pain. I never have. I never will. The last thing Boston Detective D. D. Warren remembers is walking the crime scene after dark. Then, a creaking floorboard, a low voice crooning in her ear. She is later told she managed...
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[2014]
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"Sociopaths can be found in every facet of life: personal relationships, work, school, and family. Most people have been in a relationship or interacted with more than one sociopath in their lifetime, often not recognizing their danger until it was too late. The Sociopath At the Breakfast Table breaks new ground in the field of abusive relationships. It presents an emerging theory about sociopathic interaction: SEAT, or the "Sociopath-Empath-Apath...
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[2006], c2005
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Reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people--one in twenty-five--has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is the complete absence of a conscience. They can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt, shame or remorse. Teaches you how to identify a sociopath and how to protect yourself from the one who cross your path-- and who may already be wreaking havoc in your life.-- publisher's description.
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2012.
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Do you know someone who is highly manipulative and full of himself? Or someone who charms the masses yet lacks the ability to connect deeply with those around her?
Grandiosity. Pathological lying. Lack of remorse. Shallowness. Exploitation, perhaps for financial gain. Those are the qualities of "almost psychopaths." They are not the deranged criminals often called psychopaths in the movies. They are spouses, coworkers, bosses, neighbors, and newsmakers...
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2024.
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"Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing” felt. She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant...
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2019
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It's very difficult to identify a psychopath by appearance, as they are often habituated to altering personas in order to appear non-threatening. Hence behavioral and subjective factors are usually used to identify them.
Almost all authors who have written on this topic have their own methods of identifying a psychopathic or sociopathic individual. Robert D. Hare has the most widely accepted list of clinical identifiers, called the Hare Psychopathy...
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[2014]
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"In the bestselling tradition of The Psychopath Test and The Sociopath Next Door, a compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths in our lives, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy. Kent A. Kiehl, who created the Mind Mobil MRI System to study psychopaths in prison populations, has collected the world's largest repository of forensic neuroscience, with scans of more than five hundred psychopaths and...
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[2013]
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"A diagnosed non-criminal sociopath explains how her charisma and penchant for convincing lies enables her to influence and seduce others, offering insight into her system of ethics while offering advice on how to manage a relationship with a sociopath."--From Novelist.
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[2013]
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A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain scans for research he made the disturbing discovery that his own reflected a pattern he recognized from those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.
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