Sociopath: A Memoir Vol. 1

by Patric Gagne

Paperback

Published October 30, 2024

About the author

Patric Gagne is a writer, former therapist, and advocate for people suffering from sociopathic, psychopathic, and anti-social personality disorders. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Sociopath: A Memoir, which shares her struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on this often-maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

Patric earned her BA at UCLA and then enrolled at the Westwood, CA, campus of the California Graduate Institute (CGI), a graduate school specializing in psychology, marital and family therapy, and psychoanalysis. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from CGI and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Her dissertation — “Followers of Fagin: Secondary Sociopathy and Its Relationship to Anxiety” — explored the relationship between sociopathy and anxiety and became the foundation for her memoir.

Today, she is working to expand the definition of psychopathy to include its status as a spectrum disorder and is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

Patric lives with her husband, David, and their two children.

Reviews

[Ann Peachman Stewart · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve never read a book like this before, and found it fascinating. Particular knew from Kindergarten that she was different. She didn’t think and feel like other people, and her efforts to control her impulses mostly didn’t work. After she was diagnosed as a sociopath, she looked for help. She needed to find ways to cope in a world that didn’t understand her and which she didn’t understand. Finding precious little written material, she eventually wrote this book.

[Buff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating read. Humorous and educational!👍