Without Conscience: The Disturbing
World of the Psychopaths Among Us
by Robert D. Hare PhD
Heads Up
Psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly
plow their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts,
shattered expectations, and empty wallets. Completely lacking in
conscience and in feelings for others, they selfishly take what they want
and do as they please... In Without Conscience Robert Hare argues
convincingly that psychopath and antisocial personality disorder (a
psychiatric term defined by a cluster of criminal behaviors) are not the
same thing. Not all psychopaths are criminals, he says, and not all
criminals are psychopaths. He proposes a psychopathy checklist that
includes emotional/interpersonal traits such as glibness, grandiosity, lack
of guilt, and shallow emotions, as well as social deviance traits such as
impulsiveness, lack of responsibility, and antisocial behavior. His writing is
lucid and illustrated with numerous anecdotes. The final chapter, A
Survival Guide, is especially recommended: as Hare writes, Psychopaths
are found in every segment of society, and there is a good chance that
eventually you will have a painful or humiliating encounter with one.
Features:
I had a friend when I was a teenager who's behavior I alway found to be
quite fascinating. He seemed to have no inhibitions and managed to sleep
with a new girl every other week. He was a habitual liar and would tell you
anything. He committed a wide variety of crimes and was in and out of
juvenile detention, jail and prison from the age of 14. He was also a blast
to hang around with - extremely charismatic, funny and exciting and I'm
very lucky I didn't end up in prison with him. After reading this book, things
started to become a little clearer. I'm no psychiatric professional, but it
seems to me that he lacked a sense of conscience. He knew right from
wrong and just didn't care. Where this person is today I don't know, but I
would bet money he is in prison.
If you have ever had someone's behavior perplex you and you just couldn't
figure out how some one could act the way they do without regard for
anyone else, this book may clear things up a bit. We live among people
(3% or 1 in 33 people you see every day) who are incapable of feeling
guilt. These folks are extremely dangerous and really create major
problems for the rest of us. They range from Jeffery Dalmer to an average
functional office worker who will stop at nothing to ingratiate himself to his
superiors while making things impossible for everyone else. I think this
book should be required reading for everyone in the criminal justice system
as it points out that there is no answer for dealing with these people other
than separating them form society. No therapy or rehabilitation will work -
they just figure out how to manipulate the system for their own advantage.
Society really is filled with machine like predators who would have no
second thought about hurting you or your family because they can't. This
well written book is truly enlightening and horrifying at the same time. All
you can do is look for the warning signs and be fully prepared to protect
yourself.
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