Sociopath: Understand Antisocial Personality Disorder

by Gerald Thorne

Living with Antisocial Personality Disorder?Antisocial personality disorder is a condition that is affecting more than 5 million people in the United States. This particular condition is characterized with having no ability to feel remorse or empathy thus a person suffering from this condition is often manipulative, shows aggression and are at risk to drug and alcohol abuse as well as committing crimes.

This condition is little understood by many people. With its pathophysiology coupled with complex psychiatry, the antisocial personality disorder is one of the most difficult to treat out of the many personality disorders as it is not only comorbid with other personality disorders but people suffering from this condition never learn anything during therapy sessions because they don’t have any sense of remorse. If you are dealing with a sociopath at home or work, then this book is definitely for you.

With this book, you will be able to learn the

Understand what antisocial personality disorder is and its likely causes. This book has an entire chapter that is dedicated to understanding the signs and symptoms of antisocial personality disorder. By reading this chapter, it will be easier to detect sociopaths at home or work.Get informed about the grave statistics of antisocial personality disorder in the United States. Moreover, an entire chapter in this book is dedicated to treatment options and problems encountered in treating sociopaths.This book also has an entire chapter dedicated to giving tips to people who are dealing with sociopaths. The tips include how to determine whether someone is a sociopath, how to communicate effectively with a sociopath and how to save yourself from being harassed by one.Understanding the antisocial personality disorder is very important because there is a possibility that you will deal with many sociopaths every day.

This book will definitely help you deal with people suffering from this condition.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

26 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 25, 2014

Reviews

[Patty · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very concise book, 41 pages total, about sociopaths and antisocial personality disorders.

It says the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is that "people who suffer from psychopathy are often suspicious or paranoid that is translated to their aggressive behavior. Moreover, psychopaths are capable of having normal relationships as well as holding successful careers. They also place a lot of emphasis on planning especially if they plan to commit a crime. Sociopaths, on the other hand, are incapable of having deep relationships with other people and are often disorganized as well as erratic. Although different, there is a thin line that separates the two."

"Sociopaths are people who are devoid of feeling empathy towards other people." Some sociopaths, the more intelligent ones, "can also have charm, confidence and wit but these attributed are often superficial as they are not really committed to feeling any deep emotions with others and might display good behavior to others as an aim to achieve their own personal agenda."

"Sociopaths are also often unable to control their emotions and they easily resort to verbal abuse and aggression when faced with threats or with situations that are unappealing to them." "Moreover, sociopaths are really good in both deception and manipulation.

The cause of the disease can be biological and or environmental. Some of their traits include:
Inconsistency with what a person says or does.
Lies repetitively for personal profit.
Constantly makes excuses when caught in a lie.
Ability to sense vulnerabilities in other and using those vulnerabilities for personal gain or for manipulating others.
Inability to have empathy behind the rules and laws.
Repeatedly doing acts that can serve as bases for arrest.
Disregard for safety for others or for one-self.
Shows cruelty to animals.
Readiness to blame others for their mistakes.
Inability to feel any guilt or to learn from their experiences.
Low tolerance to frustration and low threshold for the discharge of their aggression.

"Therapist having negative feelings towards clients: Due to the lack of concept of remorse, it is difficult for therapists to deal with clients suffering from antisocial personality disorder. The thing is that it is difficult to develop a sense of conscience among these people. " In other words, you can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped, doesn't believe he needs help and is devoid of feelings about others.

"You will find out that they are not only manipulative but they are incapable of having remorse. Dealing with a sociopath can be emotionally draining and there is no sense in arguing with one." How do you deal with a sociopath? You don't.

I guess if a psychopath didn't dislike me and wanted to kill me, that I would be better off with him than I would be with a sociopath.

Years ago I read, "The Sociopath Next Door," (an excellent book) which gave lots of examples about specific sociopaths, whereas this book gets right to the point of telling you about sociopaths in specific and general terms. If you are looking for what a sociopath is without having to read a bunch of examples this is an excellent book.

[Megan Wenner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this to be an interesting read and like all the examples as well as character traits of someone dealing with an Antisocial Personality Disorder. It's a very short book overall, but still gives a lot of insight into the disorder for someone that doesn't know what it is.

[Cindy C. Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Info

This is great information for those in need! Sadly, one often doesn't know they need it until it's too late.