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	<description>Wake up to the danger of sociopaths</description>
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		<title>Is my partner salvageable?</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/10/21/is-my-partner-salvageable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can be pretty tricky navigating the continuum of narcissistically disturbed individuals, attempting to separate the salvageables from the unsalvageables. Yet, there are two awfully basic, interrelated questions that can help you cut to the chase, and guide your decision to keep going, or cut bait. Here they are: 1) Is your partner someone who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>231</slash:comments>
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		<title>The sociopath takes what he wants</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/10/06/the-sociopath-takes-what-he-wants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “sociopath,” boiled down, is someone who routinely does, and takes, what he wants, unconcerned with the impact of his behavior on others. Nothing in my mind defines his essence more than this concise, factual description. He is rather unique, and thus diagnosable as a sociopath, to this precise extent. Sure, we’ve discussed this before, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>539</slash:comments>
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		<title>The sociopath&#8217;s predatory stare, revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/09/26/the-sociopaths-predatory-stare-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to comment on the sociopath’s “predatory stare,” and my first thought was to play it down somewhat. Not all sociopaths have this stare, or else it would be pretty easy to bust them for the “look.” On the other hand there’s a form of the “predatory stare” that I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>116</slash:comments>
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		<title>When therapists like sociopaths</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/08/04/when-therapists-like-sociopaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therapists aren’t immune to the charms of sociopathic clients, including this therapist. Far from it. This is especially true in a couples dynamic where the client, as I’ve noted before, can disguise his sociopathic tendencies sometimes more effectively than when in individual therapy. But even when the disguise is off,  and I know transparently that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>When amoral characters just aren’t sociopaths</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/07/07/when-amoral-characters-just-arent-sociopaths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/07/07/when-amoral-characters-just-arent-sociopaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can sit with a sociopath and know he’s a sociopath, and sit with someone who perpetrates the behaviors of the sociopath, even as comfortably as the sociopath does, and yet know he’s not a sociopath. How? How can you know? Is it something intuitive?  I address this from a clinical perspective, not a personal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>73</slash:comments>
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		<title>The special problem of the “sort of” sociopath</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/06/02/the-special-problem-of-the-sort-of-sociopath/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/06/02/the-special-problem-of-the-sort-of-sociopath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tend to speak of sociopaths versus non-sociopaths in pretty much either-or terms, despite recognizing that we fall along a spectrum of behaviors and attitudes that range from extremely unself-centered (even to self-sabotaging levels, reflecting poor self-esteem and weak self-protective defenses); to levels we would describe as dangerously exploitive (moving into the range of full-blown [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>337</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do Sociopaths Get The Last laugh?</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/04/28/do-sociopaths-get-the-last-laugh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know that there are many unapprehended sociopaths who, exploiting others’ vulnerability, have greedily taken things from them, material and otherwise—valuable, precious things they neither deserve nor deserve to enjoy, yet which they may feel they both deserve and deserve to enjoy, and often perversely do enjoy. And we know that many of these sociopaths [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>172</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sociopaths Going Backwards</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/04/25/sociopaths-going-backwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociopaths rarely go forward with their lives with reliable, sustainable momentum; at best, they may zig-zag for a while with the good (and bad) luck of a gambler; or go sidways for a while, “seeming” to hold it together. But eventually, the sociopath tends to go backwards. He is much like the person on a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>112</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter to a sociopath</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/04/08/letter-to-a-sociopath/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/04/08/letter-to-a-sociopath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write you this letter to explain something to you. You have a serious personality disorder whose very symptoms, paradoxically, may leave you unaware that you have it. Or…you may be “aware” of your disorder in an “intellectual” sense but, consequent to your disorder, you lack appropriate alarm and shame over its expression. People who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>416</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Sociopath as &#8220;The Missing Link?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/03/17/the-sociopath-as-the-missing-link/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/03/17/the-sociopath-as-the-missing-link/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that the sociopath is, in a sense, the missing link? Who is he? He is human but, in another sense, not quite human. Much like the Neandarthals, who were humans but not quite homo sapiens, and whom you’d have had a hard time differentiating from homo sapiens in a crowd, the sociopath [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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