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What the HECK! "My own mother once confided, “The worst mistake I ever made in my life was having children.” I was a teenager at the time. She’d turned around from the front seat of the 20-year old, classic blue 1955 Chevrolet that morning to look at me while she drove home from church. She wasn’t even mad about anything ..."

Such a chummy writer. He even tells us when spellcheck malfunctioned during his authoring of the book. Sheesh......

Too bad your interview on NPR got preempted by the Jimmy Carter story........ I was hoping to decide whether to keep reading this oddly written book when the station broke in and obliterated the rest of what you were going to say.

He makes up words and he does not complete all the sentences......such an informal approach might make a scientific tome more digestible, you think? No. Not in this case.......

Totally me.

As I learn about psychopaths, it becomes easier to understand how they can possibly do the scamming and engage in the lies and control they are famous for. About 2 or 3 percent of people carry the diagnosis, meaning we live among some 3 to 8 million psychopaths. But the number of serial killers numbers only in the low hundreds. I will never understand this sickness.

First, in spite of more than a century of clinical study and speculation and several decades of scientific research, the mystery of the psychopath still remains....and the fact is, compared with other major clinical disorders, little systematic research has been devoted to psychopathy, even though it is responsible for far more social distress and disruption than all other psychiatric disorders combined.

good tips on how not to get involved with a psychopath, such as: Keep your guard up in high-risk situations. Some situations are tailor-made for psychopaths: singles’ bars, social clubs, resorts, ship cruises, foreign airports, to name but a few. In each case, the potential victim is lonely, looking for a good time, excitement, or companionship, and there will usually be someone willing to oblige, for a hidden price.