具体描述
Who is the devil you know?
Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?
Your sadistic high school gym teacher?
Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?
The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?
In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door , you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door , Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has 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.
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.
The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is 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.
It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.
作者简介
玛莎·斯托特博士（Martha Stout, Ph.D.）
美国知名临床精神病学专家，任职于哈佛大学医学院，曾在著名的麦克莱恩精神专科医院（McLean Hospital）接受专业训练。
斯托特博士拥有多部著作，被福克斯新闻、美国公共广播电台、KABC电台及其他许多广播节目介绍和报道过。
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评分读完这本书，再回忆起《神探夏洛克》的最后一集，突然很庆幸，像夏洛克这样高智商的人，幸好他是个好人。 在读此书之前，读了《人间失格》与《我弥留之际》，故而在读此书时，总是把后两者的主角们拿来做对照之中，再结合书里的说法，竟觉着有些毛骨悚然。 书的开篇，向读者...
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Sensational, poorly researched, and trite but chilling.
评分Sensational, poorly researched, and trite but chilling.
评分Sensational, poorly researched, and trite but chilling.
评分Sensational, poorly researched, and trite but chilling.
评分Sensational, poorly researched, and trite but chilling.
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