DANGEROUS LIAISONS

Resisting Family/External Pressure to Stay with the Psychopath If you have a psychopathic husband, you’re likely to face not only internal pressure to stay in the relationship, but also external [...]

Relationship Boomerang: Why it’s Hard to Get Rid of a Psychopath Even if you manage to break up with a psychopath, you may still not be completely free of him. Relationships with a psychopath are [...]

  Fighting the Psychopath’s Smear Campaign I have shown earlier how the psychopath, as a human predator, attempts to isolate you from your sources of validation and support so that you become [...]

 The Two Phases of Mourning: The Rational and the Emotional Since I began working on this book, I’ve followed with great interest the testimonials of women who have been intimately involved with [...]

By now it should be quite obvious that a psychopathic partner will agree to go to therapy with you only if he believes that there’s something in it for him, not because he actually cares about [...]

Since the early 1940’s, when Hervey Cleckley conducted his study of psychopathy, psychologists have tried to understand the physiological basis for this dangerous personality disorder. During the [...]

On her website lovefraud.com, Donna Andersen has several entries on how to leave a psychopath, step by step. She states that it’s important to build up your social network of family and friends [...]

Benjamin Constant’s Adolphe Fascination with Evil: Addiction to a Psychopath One of the main reasons why some women knowingly choose to stay with dangerous men that I haven’t yet discussed in [...]

Stockholm Syndrome So far I’ve used the word “victim” to describe the women who suffer at the hands of psychopaths. Yet I don’t really like this word for several reasons. It tends to imply a [...]

We usually recognize physical abuse because it often leaves external marks: bruises, broken bones, wounds, gashes or disfiguration. Because such abuse tends to be objectively identifiable, we’re [...]