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The psychopath test : [electronic resource] : A journey through the madness industry. by Ronson, Jon.; Ronson, Jon.;
Narrator: Jon Ronson.The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 212582 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Biography & Autobiography.; Psychology.;
© 2014., Tantor,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1741863 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The psychopath whisperer : the science of those without a conscience / by Kiehl, Kent A.;
"In the bestselling tradition of The Psychopath Test and The Sociopath Next Door, a compelling journey into the science and behavior of psychopaths in our lives, written by the leading scientist in the field of criminal psychopathy. Kent A. Kiehl, who created the Mind Mobil MRI System to study psychopaths in prison populations, has collected the world's largest repository of forensic neuroscience, with scans of more than five hundred psychopaths and three thousand criminal offenders at eight facilities in several states. Kiehl's research has shown that the brains of psychopaths are structurally different from normal brains, offering new clues to how to predict and treat the disease"--Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-284) and index.Maximum security -- Suffering souls -- The assassins -- The psychopath electrified -- The psychopath magnetized -- Bad beginnings -- Ivy League lessons -- Teenage "psychopaths" -- Mobile imaging -- The decompression chamber -- A serial killer unmasked.
Subjects: Antisocial personality disorders.; Psychopaths.;
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The sociopath next door : the ruthless versus the rest of us / by Stout, Martha,1953-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index.Introduction: imagine -- The seventh sense -- Ice people: the sociopaths -- When normal conscience sleeps -- The nicest person in the world -- Why conscience is partially blind -- How to recognize the remorseless -- The etiology of guiltlessness: what causes sociopathy? -- The sociopath next door -- The origins of conscience -- Bernie's choice: why conscience is bettter -- Groundhog day -- Conscience in its purest form: Science votes for morality.[The author] reveals [in this book] that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people--one in twenty-five--has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse.... They can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.... Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others' suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win.... To arm us against the sociopath, [the author] teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game. -BooksInPrint.
Subjects: Psychopaths.; Antisocial personality disorders.;
© c2005., Three Rivers Press,
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Dangerous personalities : an FBI profiler shows how to identify and protect yourself from harmful people / by Navarro, Joe,1953-; Poynter, Toni Sciarra.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and index.It's all about me : the narcissistic personality -- Fasten your seat belts : the emotionally unstable personality -- Trust no one and you'll never get hurt : the paranoid personality -- What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine : the predator -- One is bad; two is terrible; three is lethal : combination personalities -- Self-defense against dangerous personalities.Shows readers how to identify the four most common dangerous personalities and analyze how much of a threat each personality can be, and describes how to recover from trauma caused by others with destructive personalities. --Publisher's description.
Subjects: Crime prevention.; Criminals.; Crime.; Psychopaths.; Antisocial personality disorders.;
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End of watch : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-; Patton, Will,voice actor.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),issuing body.;
Read by Will Patton.In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Horror fiction.; Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Horror fiction.; Murder; Private investigators; Psychopaths; Suicide;
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End of watch : a novel / by King, Stephen,1947-;
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney--the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield's head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill's heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King."--"A fabulously suspenseful closing volume--Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer Stephen King introduced in his Edgar award winning first book in the trilogy, returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last, masterful installment starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney."--
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Horror fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Horror fiction.; Murder; Private investigators; Psychopaths; Suicide;
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Murderous minds : exploring the criminal psychopathic brain : neurological imaging and the manifestation of evil / by Haycock, Dean A.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.Foreword / Charles C. Ouimet -- Who would do something like this? -- Kunlangeta, psychopaths and sociopaths: Does the label matter? -- What does brain imaging see? -- A problem just behind the forehead -- Troubling developments and genes -- Back again? Predicting bad behavior -- Missing fear and empathy -- Successful, unsuccessful, and other types of psychopaths -- Could you become a psychopath? -- Could your child be a budding psychopath? -- Why do we have to deal with these people? Explaining criminal psychopaths to juries and Darwinists -- Epilogue: A little "big science."How many times have you seen a murder on the news or on a TV show like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and said to yourself, "How could someone do something like that?" Today, neuroscientists are imaging, mapping, testing and dissecting the source of the worst behavior imaginable in the brains of the people who lack a conscience: psychopaths. Neuroscientist Dean Haycock examines the behavior of real life psychopaths and discusses how their actions can be explained in scientific terms, from research that literally looks inside their brains to understanding how psychopaths, without empathy but very goal-oriented, think and act the way they do. Some don't commit crimes at all, but rather make use of their skills in the boardroom. But what does this mean for lawyers, judges, psychiatrists, victims and readers -- for anyone who has ever wondered how some people can be so bad. Could your nine-year-old be a psychopath? What about your co-worker? The ability to recognize psychopaths using the scientific method has vast implications for society, and yet is still loaded with consequences.
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological.; Psychopaths.; Antisocial personality disorders.; Brain; Criminal behavior.; Criminal psychology.; Forensic neurology.;
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Every fifteen minutes [sound recording] / by Scottoline, Lisa.; Newbern, George,1964-;
Read by George Newbern.From the New York Times bestselling author of Keep Quiet, a new novel of suspense and emotional justice.Producer, Laura Wilson.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Suspense fiction.; Fiction.; Psychiatrists; Psychopaths; Murder; Psychotherapy patients;
© p2015., Macmillan Audio,
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The last surgeon [sound recording] / by Palmer, Michael,1942-2013.;
Read by: John Bedford Lloyd.Working in a mobile clinic while struggling with the challenges of PTSD, veteran doctor Nick Garrity searches for a missing war buddy and finds himself pitted against a terrifying psychopath who is disguising some of his kills as suicides.
Subjects: Medical novels.; Suspense fiction.; Physicians; Psychopaths; Surgeons; Serial murders;
© p2010, c2010., Recorded Books,
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The collector / by Fowles, John,1926-2005.;
Ferdinand has always loved collecting butterflies, but when he becomes obsessed with a young college student, he decides to add her to his collection, against her wishes.
Subjects: Collectors and collecting; Psychopaths; Mentally ill; Butterflies;
© c2010, c1997., Back Bay Books,
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