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From Dr. Martha Stout's influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what to actually do about it.While the best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid them entirely, sometimes circumstance doesn't allow for that. What happens when the time comes to defend yourself against your own child, a boss, or ruthless ex-spouse? Inspired by the many chilling and often heartbreaking emails and letters she has received over the years, from her work with the victims of sociopathy, Dr. Martha Stout uncovers the psychology behind the sociopath's methods and provides concrete guidelines to help navigate these dangerous interactions. Organized around categories such as destructive narcissism, violent sociopaths, sociopathic coworkers, and the sociopath in your family, Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door contains detailed explanation and commentary on how best to react in these situations to keep the sociopath at bay. Uniting these categories is a discussion of changing psychological theories of personality and sociopathy and the enduring triumph of conscience over those who operate without empathy or concern for others. By understanding the person you're dealing with and changing the rules of the game, you'll be able to gain the upper hand and escape the sociopath's influence.Whether you're fighting a custody battle against a sociopathic ex or being gaslighted by a boss or coworker, you'll find hope and help within these pages. With this guide to disarming the conscienceless, Dr. Stout aims to give readers the tools to protect themselves while conducting a broader examination of human behavior and conceptions of normality.

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From Dr. Martha Stout's influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what to actually do about it.While the best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid them entirely, sometimes circumstance doesn't allow for that. What happens when the time comes to defend yourself against your own child, a boss, or ruthless ex-spouse? Inspired by the many chilling and often heartbreaking emails and letters she has received over the years, from her work with the victims of sociopathy, Dr. Martha Stout uncovers the psychology behind the sociopath's methods and provides concrete guidelines to help navigate these dangerous interactions.Organized around categories such as destructive narcissism, violent sociopaths, sociopathic coworkers, and the sociopath in your family, Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door contains detailed explanation and commentary on how best to react in these situations to keep the sociopath at bay. Uniting these categories is a discussion of changing psychological theories of personality and sociopathy and the enduring triumph of conscience over those who operate without empathy or concern for others. By understanding the person you're dealing with and changing the rules of the game, you'll be able to gain the upper hand and escape the sociopath's influence.Whether you're fighting a custody battle against a sociopathic ex or being gaslighted by a boss or coworker, you'll find hope and help within these pages. With this guide to disarming the conscienceless, Dr. Stout aims to give readers the tools to protect themselves while conducting a broader examination of human behavior and conceptions of normality.

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WHO IS THE DEVIL YOU KNOW? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He's a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people- 1 in 25 - has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in 25 everyday people, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbour, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They're more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others' suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know - someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for - is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game.It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.

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Dr. Martha Stouts bedeutendes Werk "Der Soziopath von nebenan" lehrte uns, einen Soziopathen zu erkennen. Jetzt erfahren wir, wie wir uns vor ihm schützen können. Der beste Umgang mit einem Soziopathen ist natürlich, ihm vollkommen aus dem Weg zu gehen, doch manchmal lassen die Umstände dies nicht zu. Was geschieht, wenn Sie sich gegen Ihr eigenes Kind, einen skrupellosen Ex-Mann, einen Chef oder eine andere maßgebende Person wehren müssen? Gestützt auf die vielen erschütternden und oft herzzerreißenden E-Mails und Briefe, die sie im Lauf der Zeit erhalten hat, deckt Dr. Martha Stout die Psychologie hinter den Methoden des Soziopathen auf und bietet konkrete, hilfreiche Grundregeln, um mit diesen gefährlichen Situationen fertig zu werden. Unter Zuhilfenahme von Kategorien wie destruktiver Narzissmus, gewalttätige Soziopathen, soziopathische Arbeitskollegen, Soziopathie in Unternehmen und Regierungen sowie dem Soziopathen in der Familie wartet dieses Buch mit detaillierten Erklärungen und Kommentaren dazu auf, wie man den Soziopathen am besten in Schach hält. Die Autorin findet dabei heraus, dass Menschen mit einem Gewissen letztlich über jene triumphieren, die ohne Empathie oder Fürsorge für andere handeln. Wenn Sie die Person, mit der Sie es zu tun haben, verstehen, und die Regeln des Spiels ändern, werden Sie die Oberhand gewinnen und dem Einfluss des Soziopathen entkommen können. Ob Sie einen Sorgerechtsstreit mit einem soziopathischen Ex führen oder von Ihrem Boss oder einem Arbeitskollegen in den Wahnsinn getrieben werden – Sie werden Hoffnung und Hilfe in diesem Buch finden. Mit diesem Ratgeber zur Entwaffnung der Gewissenlosen präsentiert Dr. Stout eine scharfsinnige neue Untersuchung des menschlichen Verhaltens und der Vorstellungen von Normalität und gibt den Lesern die Tools an die Hand, die sie brauchen, um sich zu schützen.

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