Claudia Moscovici
03.09.2018
Psychopaths in history and life
Review of The Inner World of the Psychopath by Steve Becker Psychopathy is the psychological root of evil. Understanding what makes psychopaths tick can offer us invaluable emotional protection [...]
27.08.2018
Why do psychopaths lie?
Psychopaths lie pathologically about pretty much everything: their past, their present and their future. Whatever lies you discover about the psychopath in your life are likely to be just the tip [...]
20.08.2018
Red Flags: How to Identify a Loser
The most important self-defense against psychopathic seducers consists of recognizing the initial warning signals so that you can escape the relationship early on, hopefully before you’re [...]
06.08.2018
Psychopaths and Pathological Lying
Untruthfulness and Insincerity We’ve gotten to Cleckley’s most significant symptoms of psychopathy: untruthfulness and insincerity. This is so central to the psychopath’s character and way of [...]
30.07.2018
Psychopaths are ticking time bombs
Unreliability Obviously, if psychopaths were unreliable from the start, they wouldn’t ensnare so many victims. Few women, for instance, would continue to date a man who stood them up on the first [...]
23.07.2018
Why psychopathy is NOT a mental illness or a neurotic disorder
Absence of Delusions and Other Signs of Irrational Thinking Despite being capable of actions that we’d associate with insanity—such as killing their family members in cold-blood, then going out [...]
16.07.2018
The Psychopath’s Superficial Charm and Intelligence
Cleckley observes, “More often than not, the typical psychopath will seem particularly agreeable and make a distinctly positive impression when he is first encountered. Alert and friendly in his [...]
09.07.2018
What is a Psychopath?
Close Readings of Hervey Cleckley’s The Mask of Sanity Unlike Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, psychopaths don’t usually come across as socially awkward, reclusive and bizarre. On the contrary, they [...]
02.07.2018
Charismatic Psychopaths: Mark Hacking and Neil Entwistle
The most dangerous social predators are, unfortunately, also the most common and the best camouflaged. Charismatic psychopaths rely upon their natural trademarks—glibness, magnetism and charm—to [...]
25.06.2018
How do you escape from the psychopathic bond?
The psychopathic bond resembles any other kind of powerful addiction. Nobody and nothing can save an addict unless she’s willing to save herself. Others can only offer her emotional support, [...]
