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“He is the lie, from hello to good-bye”

Wednesday, 26 March 2008 @ 3:00am • My Weblog

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“The conscience is a vital organ”

Wednesday, 2 April 2008 @ 3:14am • My Weblog

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“Would somebody please tell me why he did this!”

Friday, 12 January 2007 @ 8:45am • My Weblog

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10 Signs that you’re dating a sociopath

Monday, 12 April 2010 @ 5:08am • My Weblog

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100-year-old molester still considered a threat

Monday, 14 December 2009 @ 5:51am • My Weblog

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A ‘female’-type psychopathy?

Saturday, 15 November 2008 @ 7:51pm • My Weblog

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A classic story of sociopathic manipulation

Monday, 8 June 2009 @ 5:42am • My Weblog

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A common verbal ploy of the psychopath

Tuesday, 11 December 2007 @ 11:09pm • My Weblog

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A leading polygraph expert discusses psychopathy and how people lie

Friday, 6 June 2008 @ 4:51am • My Weblog

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A society where everyone is a sociopath

Thursday, 18 June 2009 @ 6:55pm • My Weblog

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A sociopath will leave you out in the cold every time

Friday, 2 January 2009 @ 8:11pm • My Weblog

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A Sociopathic Interaction

Wednesday, 31 December 2008 @ 11:15am • My Weblog

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Accepting the sociopath/narcissist’s blame to preserve the relationship

Thursday, 25 September 2008 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Advice for dealing with sociopaths: Don’t take it personally

Monday, 6 April 2009 @ 5:30am • My Weblog

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Aging out of sociopathy?

Thursday, 4 June 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Are all psychopaths/sociopaths criminals and are all criminals sociopaths?

Friday, 15 August 2008 @ 9:55pm • My Weblog

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Are they just evil people?

Friday, 29 June 2007 @ 9:25am • My Weblog

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Are we born with a sense of right and wrong?

Saturday, 22 May 2010 @ 12:59pm • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: answers to your questions about sociopaths

Sunday, 25 February 2007 @ 6:11am • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: Are sociopaths (and psychopaths) vindictive?

Friday, 18 January 2008 @ 9:12am • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: Are there psychological tactics for dealing with a psychopath?

Friday, 11 January 2008 @ 4:07pm • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: Is there a gender bias against men in the diagnosis of sociopathy?

Friday, 8 June 2007 @ 6:27am • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: What is dissociation?

Sunday, 21 February 2010 @ 10:23am • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: What is the difference between a narcissist and a sociopath?

Friday, 11 May 2007 @ 7:09am • My Weblog

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ASK Dr. LEEDOM: What is the difference between bipolar disorder and sociopathy?

Friday, 16 March 2007 @ 10:31am • My Weblog

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ASK DR. LEEDOM: Why are addicts and sociopaths similar?

Thursday, 8 March 2007 @ 10:33am • My Weblog

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“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”

Friday, 4 June 2010 @ 10:09am • My Weblog

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Bernie Madoff: The accomplishment of an entrepreneur or a psychopath?

Friday, 12 December 2008 @ 9:00am • My Weblog

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BOOK REVIEW: A Dangerous Fortune

Sunday, 8 November 2009 @ 5:19am • My Weblog

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BOOK REVIEW: Emotional Vampires

Monday, 10 August 2009 @ 5:59am • My Weblog

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BOOK REVIEW: In Sheep’s Clothing—Understanding Manipulative People

Saturday, 29 August 2009 @ 2:53pm • My Weblog

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BOOK REVIEW: The Socially Skilled Child Molester

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 @ 6:06am • My Weblog

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Boredom and the sociopath

Thursday, 18 June 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Can a 5 year old be a psychopath?

Saturday, 11 April 2009 @ 8:08am • My Weblog

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Can I Have A Witness?

Thursday, 29 January 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Can victims become like the psychopath?

Friday, 3 October 2008 @ 5:22am • My Weblog

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Catch and release

Monday, 3 August 2009 @ 5:48am • My Weblog

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Confessed serial killer says he’d do it again

Friday, 12 March 2010 @ 12:29pm • My Weblog

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Dear Abby and the narcissist

Monday, 12 July 2010 @ 8:28am • My Weblog

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Differentiating narcissists and psychopaths

Monday, 21 January 2008 @ 10:53am • My Weblog

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Do psychopaths/sociopaths make choices?

Friday, 23 May 2008 @ 7:34am • My Weblog

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Donald Trump doesn’t even understand con men!

Friday, 11 July 2008 @ 9:47am • My Weblog

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Donna Andersen’s video for Love Fraud book

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 @ 8:22pm • My Weblog

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Dr. Donald G. Dutton explains that personality disorder is the cause of domestic violence

Sunday, 26 July 2009 @ 8:15pm • My Weblog

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E…Evil Woman

Thursday, 26 March 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Empathy among college students declines

Wednesday, 2 June 2010 @ 9:49am • My Weblog

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Empty, bored chameleons

Friday, 7 August 2009 @ 8:33pm • My Weblog

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Enabling a sociopath is unpatriotic

Saturday, 4 July 2009 @ 6:14am • My Weblog

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Esther Elizabeth Reed: Profile of a female con artist and sociopath/psychopath

Friday, 22 August 2008 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Evaluating An Unknown Provider’s Expertise in Sociopathy

Thursday, 15 January 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Even experts on bullying are clueless about sociopaths

Monday, 31 May 2010 @ 5:19am • My Weblog

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Evil – a simple definition

Thursday, 22 May 2008 @ 3:11pm • My Weblog

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Experienced clinician says psychopathy is a spectrum

Saturday, 28 August 2010 @ 9:37am • My Weblog

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Exploiters seek partners who dread to displease them

Thursday, 23 October 2008 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Fear: The gift sociopaths/psychopaths didn’t get by their third Christmas

Saturday, 31 May 2008 @ 6:48am • My Weblog

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Forgiveness, sociopathy and choice

Sunday, 24 January 2010 @ 8:42am • My Weblog

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Game theory and the sociopath

Monday, 25 January 2010 @ 6:07am • My Weblog

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Games Sociopaths Play (In Psychotherapy)

Thursday, 1 April 2010 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Garrido and Mitchell: two sociopaths who are also delusional

Saturday, 5 September 2009 @ 7:35am • My Weblog

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Gerhartsreiter guilty, sentenced to 5 years but the judge still doesn’t get it

Friday, 12 June 2009 @ 5:18pm • My Weblog

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Getting inside the head of the abusive mentality

Thursday, 17 July 2008 @ 8:08am • My Weblog

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Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m Not a Sociopath

Thursday, 8 October 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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How a deficits disorder can cause so much grief and pain

Thursday, 20 November 2008 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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How parasites—like ticks and psychopaths—work

Wednesday, 27 May 2009 @ 5:40am • My Weblog

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How psychopaths manipulate their victims

Sunday, 18 June 2006 @ 12:19pm • My Weblog

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How Sociopaths Think

Thursday, 18 February 2010 @ 8:30am • My Weblog

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How To Avoid Exploitative Partners

Thursday, 15 April 2010 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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I, Psychopath: Watch the documentary online

Monday, 30 November 2009 @ 5:34am • My Weblog

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Is Sociopathy A Perversion?

Thursday, 9 April 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Is the predator always a sociopath?

Thursday, 11 June 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Is this person a jerk, a narcissist or a sociopath?

Friday, 24 October 2008 @ 7:24am • My Weblog

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Is your ___________ “a sociopath”?

Friday, 11 April 2008 @ 7:29am • My Weblog

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It’s not that the psychopath’s beliefs are awry (they are); it’s that his desires are too perverse and too uninhibited

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 @ 10:07pm • My Weblog

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Josef Fritzl – psychopath

Thursday, 1 May 2008 @ 12:18am • My Weblog

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LETTERS TO LOVEFRAUD: The most important one-liner you will ever hear

Tuesday, 5 January 2010 @ 9:59am • My Weblog

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LETTERS TO LOVEFRAUD: When The Player becomes The Played

Friday, 2 April 2010 @ 10:25am • My Weblog

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Love Fraud books mail today!

Monday, 9 August 2010 @ 2:56pm • My Weblog

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Love fraud: A spectrum (Part 1)

Friday, 23 March 2007 @ 8:00am • My Weblog

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Lovefraud’s comment about sociopaths for the DSM-5

Friday, 16 April 2010 @ 5:05am • My Weblog

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Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me

Thursday, 12 March 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Medication used to treat sociopathy/psychopathy

Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 9:42am • My Weblog

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More confusion over antisocial personality disorder, sociopathy and psychopathy

Friday, 21 November 2008 @ 9:34am • My Weblog

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Most cheaters are amateurs; sociopaths are professionals

Sunday, 18 November 2007 @ 11:52am • My Weblog

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Murderous partners

Thursday, 24 June 2010 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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Nancy Garrido: alleged kidnapper and rapist

Sunday, 13 September 2009 @ 7:41am • My Weblog

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New study finds conduct disordered boys are just like their fathers

Friday, 17 August 2007 @ 7:04am • My Weblog

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New York book club to discuss ‘The Sociopath Next Door’

Sunday, 11 April 2010 @ 6:23pm • My Weblog

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No Shame, No Gain

Thursday, 30 July 2009 @ 7:00am • My Weblog

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NPR series on psychopaths, the brain and crime

Saturday, 3 July 2010 @ 10:51am • My Weblog

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Optical illusions: autostereograms and sociopaths

Sunday, 20 May 2007 @ 9:54am • My Weblog

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Over use of the term psychopath/sociopath?

Saturday, 17 January 2009 @ 12:10pm • My Weblog

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Physiologically, power makes it easier to lie

Tuesday, 23 March 2010 @ 5:57am • My Weblog

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Pop psychology doesn’t work with sociopaths

Sunday, 17 September 2006 @ 12:45pm • My Weblog

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PROFIT: A (cancelled) TV show championing a sociopath

Thursday, 26 June 2008 @ 8:12am • My Weblog

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Psychopaths and predatory memory

Monday, 27 April 2009 @ 6:07am • My Weblog

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Psychopaths and sociopaths teach us about the importance of love bonds

Friday, 23 November 2007 @ 7:27am • My Weblog

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Psychopaths in everyday life

Friday, 4 July 2008 @ 8:05am • My Weblog

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Psychopaths show overactive dopamine systems

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 @ 11:45am • My Weblog

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Psychopaths’ cat and mouse game

Thursday, 21 February 2008 @ 9:35am • My Weblog

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Psychopaths, crime and choice

Monday, 22 March 2010 @ 6:03am • My Weblog

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