Confessions ​of a Sociopath 3 csillagozás

A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath

The ​first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopath is an engrossing, highly captivating narrative of the author's life as a diagnosed sociopath.

She is a charismatic charmer, an ambitious self-promoter, and a cunning and calculating liar. She can induce you to invest in her financial schemes, vote for her causes, and even join her in bed. Like a real-life Lisbeth Salander, she has her own system of ethics, and like Dexter, she thrives on bending and occasionally breaking the rules. She is a diagnosed, high-functioning, noncriminal sociopath, and this is her world from her point of view.

Drawn from the author's own experiences; her popular blog, Sociopathworld.com; and scientific literature, Confessions of a Sociopath is part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious. Written from the point of view of a diagnosed sociopath, it unveils for the very first time these people who are hiding in plain sight. The book confirms suspicions and debunks myths about… (tovább)

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Pan Books, Dublin, 2014
302 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9781447242734
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Crown, New York, 2013
320 oldal · ISBN: 0307956644

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The reality is that I have nothing of what people refer to as a conscience or remorse. The concept of morality, when defined as an emotional understanding of right and wrong, goes right over my head like an inside joke of which I am not a part. […] I wonder what life would be like to always be „feeling” certain ways about things, to have conviction, which is apparently how many people experience the world.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: bűntudat · lelkiismeret · meggyőződés · morál
Azu>!

Learning to communicate with empaths is like trying to understand and speak a foreign language.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: kommunikáció
Azu>!

Ruining people. I love the way the phrase rolls around on my tongue and inside my mouth. Ruining people is delicious. We're all hungry, empaths and sociopaths. We want to consume. Sociopaths are uniformly hungry for power. […] I like people. I like people so much that I want to touch them, mold them, or ruin them however I'd like. Not because I want to witness the results, necessarily, but simply because I want to exercise my power.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Azu>!

I've always known that my heart is a little blacker and colder than most people's. Maybe that's why it's so tempting to try to break other people's.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: szív
Azu>!

Love always finds ways to disappoint.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: szeretet
Azu>!

I may have a disorder, but I'm not crazy.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: őrült
Azu>!

In a word filled with gloomy, mediocre nothings populating a go-nowhere rat race, people are attracted to the sociopath's exceptionalism like moths to a flame.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: antiszociális személyiségzavar · szociopata
Azu>!

[…] members of the Yoruba tribe in Africa called cold souls arankan, which means a person who always goes his own way regardless of others, who is uncooperative, full of malice, and bullheaded.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Afrika
Azu>!

Sociopaths actually know what society considers right and wrong most of the time, they just don't feel an emotional compulsion to conform their behaviour to social standards.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: antiszociális személyiségzavar · szociopata
Azu>!

I've allowed myself to be tamed by people in order to have longer-lasting relationships, but the animalistic urge to destroy is always bubbling underneath the surface.

M. E. Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: kapcsolat

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