{"id":556,"date":"2012-08-13T22:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2012-08-13T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:56:38","slug":"the-sociopath-next-door-by-martha-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"The Sociopath Next Door – by Martha Stout"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a must read book. \u00a0When I was doing jury duty a few weeks ago I met a wonderful woman…this woman suggested I read this book, and then one week later lent the audio book to me. \u00a0After reading this book I completely believe Morgan’s stalker was definitely a sociopath, and can not be changed. \u00a0He will never have feelings like normal people have, and I believe he will go on to do this again, and again. \u00a0There is no cure for sociopathy. \u00a0This type of stalker fits right in to society, we don’t really see him do we?<\/p>\n

Martha Stout writes: We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in\u00a0The Sociopath Next Door<\/em>, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people\u2014one in twenty-five\u2014has 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 twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading\u00a0The Sociopath Next Door<\/em>\u00a0is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know\u2014someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for\u2014is 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.<\/p>\n

It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and\u00a0The Sociopath Next Door<\/em>\u00a0will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a must read book. \u00a0When I was doing jury duty a few weeks ago I met a wonderful woman…this woman suggested I read this book, and then one week later lent the audio book to me. \u00a0After reading … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stalking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wvjS-8Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5019,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=5019","url_meta":{"origin":556,"position":0},"title":"First stalker photo in the series from wildlife camera in August 2011","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"November 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The hallmark of a sociopath is the lack of empathy. \u00a0They have no fear. \u00a0They think they're smarter than others, even smarter than the police. \u00a0They never think they will get caught. 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