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	<description>Wake up to the danger of sociopaths</description>
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		<title>The Sociopath Holding Court</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/18/the-sociopath-holding-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The following is a satirical piece; it is not meant to trivialize sociopaths and the damage they inflict on others. Rather, through satire, the piece is meant to dramatize, in exaggerated fashion, some of the sociopath’s notable  linguistic, defensive and manipulative machinations.)
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, and particularly you, young lady. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>The sociopath’s pseudo insightfulness and sensitivity</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/03/04/the-sociopaths-pseudo-insightfulness-and-sensitivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociopaths who posture as insightful and self-aware are some of the most dangerous predators around.
When I use the terms pseudo insightful and pseudo sensitive, I’m referring to the sociopath’s manipulative efforts to seem some combination of vulnerable, self-aware, sensitive and compassionate.
For some sociopaths this deception is conscious, while for others it is so seamlessly woven [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>362</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Sociopaths Think</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/02/18/how-sociopaths-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When reflecting on the sociopath&#8217;s style, I often find myself thinking metaphorically. For instance, in an early LoveFraud article (Sociopaths’ Cat and Mouse Game) I explored the mind of the sociopath via the metaphor of the cat toying with the mouse.
In this article, I probe a different metaphor: the small child abusing the captured insect.
But a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>304</slash:comments>
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		<title>The sociopath’s imperturbability</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/02/04/the-sociopaths-imperturbability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sociopath’s imperturbability has been widely noted. However, this is a generalization, not true of all sociopaths in all situations.
A sociopath around whom the net is closing, who recognizes that he’s played his last card and finds, alas, that the game is ending and that he faces inescapable consequences—sociopaths in this circumstance may feel forms [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>215</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Story of David Pecard</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/01/21/the-story-of-david-pecard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I watched an old 48-Hours segment on the conman David Michael Pecard, which proved to be a most fascinating, educational case study of a textbook sociopath.
Pecard is the kind of sociopath (or psychopath) psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley, MD, so brilliantly grappled with in his classic, “The Mask of Sanity”—that is, he was glib, persuasive (could [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>The dark side of the man</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2010/01/07/the-dark-side-of-the-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A big problem we face in sizing up a partner is getting stuck on, or being seduced by, his “light side”—that is, his apparently (or genuinely) wonderful, engaging, admirable,  gratifying qualities.
However, when we’re dealing with a sociopath, there is also the other side—the “dark side.”
By “dark side” I mean, essentially, the sociopath’s exploitive side. And by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>459</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sociopaths exploiting your faith</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/12/03/sociopaths-exploiting-your-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/12/03/sociopaths-exploiting-your-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociopaths as much as anything exploit your faith in them…over and over again. 
In many ways this captures the essence of sociopathy in particular, and exploitation in general: The sociopath, or exploiter, seduces your faith, only then to intentionally violate it.
The more seriously you take him, the more you are vulnerable; the more vulnerable you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>131</slash:comments>
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		<title>When nurture becomes nature</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/11/19/when-nurture-becomes-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Explaining the sociopath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing from a sociopath]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There comes a time when nurture becomes nature.  
This is the time when nurture and nature become inextricable, inseparable.
I suspect nobody knows precisely when this point arrives in the development of a given individual, but the immediate ramification is this: When you are involved specifically with a sociopath, or any exploitative personality, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>256</slash:comments>
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		<title>The sociopath’s irrational optimism</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/11/05/the-sociopath%e2%80%99s-irrational-optimism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/11/05/the-sociopath%e2%80%99s-irrational-optimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve discussed many of the sociopath’s traits, such as his missing empathy and compassion; his tendency to remorseless interpersonal exploitation; and proclivity to audacious acts of lying, deception and sundry other violating behaviors.
Now, I’m tempted to add to the mix what I call the sociopath’s tendency to “irrational optimism.” 
By “irrational optimism,” I mean the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>488</slash:comments>
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		<title>What All Sociopaths Have In Common</title>
		<link>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/22/what-all-sociopaths-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/10/22/what-all-sociopaths-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Becker, LCSW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we think about sociopaths, let’s remember that they can make diverse presentations, which can make it hard to know if (and when) you’re dealing with one. 
Although sociopathy is a personality disorder, it’s complicated by the fact that sociopaths have widely diverse personalities. 
There are smart sociopaths and dumb sociopaths; gregarious sociopaths and more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>140</slash:comments>
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