Description
From Dr. Martha Stout’s influential work The Sociopath Next Door, we learned how to identify a sociopath. Now she tells us what we actually can do about it.
“Mandatory reading on how to effectively deal with sociopaths before you get hurt.”—Joe Navarro, former FBI special agent and the author of Dangerous Personalities
While the best way to deal with a sociopath is to avoid him or her entirely, sometimes circumstance doesn’t allow for that. What happens when the time comes to defend yourself against your own child, a ruthless ex-spouse, a boss, or another person in power? Using the many emails and letters she has received over the years, Dr. Martha Stout uncovers the psychology behind the sociopath’s methods and provides concrete guidelines to help navigate these dangerous interactions.
Organized around categories such as destructive narcissism, violent sociopaths, sociopathic coworkers, sociopathy in business and government, and the sociopath in your family, Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door contains detailed explanation and commentary on how best to react to keep the sociopath at bay. Uniting these categories is a discussion of changing psychological theories of personality and sociopathy and the enduring triumph of conscience over those who operate without empathy or concern for others. By understanding the person you’re dealing with, you’ll be able to gain the upper hand and escape the sociopath’s influence.
Whether you’re fighting a custody battle against a sociopathic ex or being gaslighted by a boss or coworker, you’ll find hope and help within these pages. With this guide to disarming the conscienceless, Dr. Stout provides an incisive new examination of human behavior and conceptions of normality and gives readers the tools needed to protect themselves.
Once again Martha expertly helps us learn how to identify a sociopath and more importantly handle them in ways that cause them to break their connection with us. Which is the best outcome given a bad situation.
Good book, kind of scary when you know what kind of people can be around us.
Definitely a must have for people, who have suffered from a sociopath before, but also the ones, that are just very interested in human psychology
I have a sociopath next door, this book explains their their thought processes etc
I’ve read many books in this genre, and this, along with the first book “The Sociopath Next Door” is 5* +. Informative, practical and constructively helpful. Very well written. And the final chapter in this book actually brought tears to my eyes. If you ever read this review Martha – thank you so much – you beautiful Human!