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The Sociopath Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,432 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 255,611 ratings — published 1985
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,629 ratings — published 1995
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,792 ratings — published 1993
Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.96 — 726 ratings — published 1920
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 91,523 ratings — published 1973
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,422 ratings — published 1998
Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.78 — 273 ratings — published 2002
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,557 ratings — published 2011
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,543 ratings — published 1990
My Lobotomy: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,333 ratings — published 2007
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.90 — 37,142 ratings — published 1964
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 244,057 ratings — published 2012
Hypnotherapy Fundamentals: Complete Guide (Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theories and Practices, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.91 — 33 ratings — published
Psychotherapy Fundamentals: Complete Guide (Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theories and Practices, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.93 — 46 ratings — published
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.19 — 116,158 ratings — published 2018
Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 956 ratings — published 1992
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.58 — 44,862 ratings — published 2007
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.23 — 18,748 ratings — published 2013
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,038 ratings — published 2001
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by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.24 — 401 ratings — published 2011
Inside the Criminal Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,450 ratings — published 1984
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,363 ratings — published 2013
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,975 ratings — published 1980
The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.01 — 558 ratings — published 2017
Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.97 — 589 ratings — published 1971
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.73 — 14,973 ratings — published 2012
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,483 ratings — published 2017
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,435 ratings — published 2013
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,534 ratings — published 2011
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,190 ratings — published 1995
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.70 — 971 ratings — published 2007
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,175 ratings — published 1952
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,718 ratings — published 2002
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,402,366 ratings — published 2015
Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.94 — 193 ratings — published 1993
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 294,072 ratings — published 1993
Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.02 — 738 ratings — published
Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,614 ratings — published
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.25 — 850,877 ratings — published 1966
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,662 ratings — published 2011
Disorders of Personality: DSM-IV™ and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.31 — 70 ratings — published 1981
When Rabbit Howls (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,026 ratings — published 1987
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,318 ratings — published 2011
The Day the Voices Stopped (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,761 ratings — published 2001
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.20 — 797,873 ratings — published 1962
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,327,385 ratings — published 1963
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,927 ratings — published 2008
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,394 ratings — published 1995
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,112 ratings — published 1994
“THE “AWARENESS” SHIELD FEAT.
According to the Bible, Joseph obtained enormous prestige in Egypt, when he was able to divine the dreams of the pharaoh,
As Joseph earned that feat with a great social prestige, in different traditions the "awareness" of the future, or an inaccessible present, always proved a merit that produces social honor. Weber (1922) considers the prophets, along with the priests and magicians, as examples of charismatic leaders, and this is because "predict " or " perceive" the future has been, in different traditions, a strong feat that has given pride and social prestige those who perform.
It postulates a "shield feat of awareness" that is intended to offset the impact on the pride of some future anti-feat. When the firepower that a possible future anti-feat has about pride and social prestige is too high and becomes unbearable, the person can go into that future equipped with a shield feat that will compensate. From that strategy, thinking badly of the future is a way of ensuring the "consolation prize" of having the merit of "prediction”.
According to Steele (1988 ), when a person experiences a negative assessment of himself in a particular field, they can initiate a process of self-affirmation activating positive beliefs in another area, thus achieving a positive overall assessment of itself. The pessimistic shield feat "awareness of future failure”, would be a merit that safeguards to offset the impact of that failure on self- concept , an achievement an overall assessment that is not so negative.”
― THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.
According to the Bible, Joseph obtained enormous prestige in Egypt, when he was able to divine the dreams of the pharaoh,
As Joseph earned that feat with a great social prestige, in different traditions the "awareness" of the future, or an inaccessible present, always proved a merit that produces social honor. Weber (1922) considers the prophets, along with the priests and magicians, as examples of charismatic leaders, and this is because "predict " or " perceive" the future has been, in different traditions, a strong feat that has given pride and social prestige those who perform.
It postulates a "shield feat of awareness" that is intended to offset the impact on the pride of some future anti-feat. When the firepower that a possible future anti-feat has about pride and social prestige is too high and becomes unbearable, the person can go into that future equipped with a shield feat that will compensate. From that strategy, thinking badly of the future is a way of ensuring the "consolation prize" of having the merit of "prediction”.
According to Steele (1988 ), when a person experiences a negative assessment of himself in a particular field, they can initiate a process of self-affirmation activating positive beliefs in another area, thus achieving a positive overall assessment of itself. The pessimistic shield feat "awareness of future failure”, would be a merit that safeguards to offset the impact of that failure on self- concept , an achievement an overall assessment that is not so negative.”
― THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.
“psychopaths are generally well satisfied with themselves and with their inner landscape, bleak as it may seem to outside observers.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us 1st (first) edition
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us 1st (first) edition
