02-25-2011, 02:43 PM
(02-25-2011, 10:02 AM)pspence Wrote: have you read "The sociopath next door" by Martha Stout.
highly acclaimed and very informative and scary!!!!
I did read that. Didn't like the subtle political agenda, but the info on sociopaths was good.
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Dying to read the book and will get it today...I'm curious...what could be the subtle political agenda on a book about sociopaths? I would think fear of sociopaths in our society would be bi-partisan...what is it anti-or pro death penalty or something like that?
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I don't recall any mention of the death penalty. Throughout the book she has this theme going that individuality v. collectivism is responsible for allowing sociopaths to thrive. That is complete and total horseshit. She's trying to promote her political agenda, which is socialist, on the back of the of the topic about sociopathy. I found it sickening. I could write a book and refute everything she said and show where bureaucratic institutionalism nurtures and protects the sociopathic personality, which would be just as disingenuous. Her main heroin and victim in her book is a Jewish psychiatrist, which was also funny. If people knew the history of psychiatry they would see the ethnic agenda in her story and the absurdity of what it is she's trying to do in her book.
Suffice it to say, individual responsibility and the principals in our Constitution are not the cause of sociopathy.
I'm sure there are far better books to found on the subject.