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How to Spot a Psychopath
How to Spot a Psychopath
How to Spot a Psychopath
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How to Spot a Psychopath

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Based on former FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro’s experience as a criminal profiler and behavior specialist, this short booklet/checklist - "How To Spot A Psychopath" - provides the average person with the tools necessary for spotting and assessing psychopaths. This is a must read for anyone who wants to protect themselves, their children, or their loved ones. This short booklet/checklist offers practical guidance and a checklist of the 150 behaviors that are closely associated with psychopathy. It is easy to use, intended for the average layperson. You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to use this. This will not only give you insight, it will also lay to rest any fears or concerns you have about psychopaths, so that you can do something about it. Practical, fast, easy to read and understand.

This is a NEWLY revised edition featuring more detailed introductory material on psychopaths and an extended checklist of now 150 features!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJoe Navarro
Release dateOct 3, 2011
ISBN9781466015821
How to Spot a Psychopath
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Joe Navarro

FBI Special Agent (Ret.) JOE NAVARRO worked for the Bureau in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. He is now a lecturer and consultant for major companies worldwide. He is the author of What Every BODY is Saying, and has appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews, the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, CNN, Fox News, and other major media. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    It's such a good book. I will recommend to everyone!!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    On the list of 150 traits many are repeats. This list could be massively scaled back by cutting out repetition. Better resource is Robert Hare's book Without Conscience.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Good start to learn about Psychopaths. I am now encouraged to learn more from the Forensic Psychology.
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    I thought it was okay. A lot of the information are commonsensical.
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    As a psychopath, my review on this isn't positive. It's a pathetic attempt and extremely vague written article. Since people are so interested about psychopaths I should enlighten them. People have always been curious about the unknown and will read any garbage that they come across. It's been that way for thousands of years and will continue to repeat itself. There's a reason why we stay hidden, it's because of how "normal " people treat those that's different. Want to talk about cruel? You can find it by looking into a mirror because it's staring back at you.

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    This would have been a useful book to have around while I was dating

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How to Spot a Psychopath - Joe Navarro

Introduction

If there is one thing you learn after 25 years in the FBI, it’s that the world is full of predators and they are often very difficult to spot. They come in all shapes and sizes, from every nationality, from the nicest neighborhoods to the poorest, and from every walk of life, men and women.

They come in many forms: the seemingly nice elderly man who scams you of your life’s savings, the priest that repeatedly rapes the choir boy, the stalker who kills college women, the neighbor who lures innocent children, the toxic boss who makes life miserable for his employees, the nurse that wants to rid the world of the elderly, the father who imprisons and rapes his own daughter, or the husband who terrifies and beats his wife daily. These are all predators; they are in every way psychopaths.

What psychopaths have in common is a profound sense of entitlement to do as they please, to seek reward by any method, to deviate from rules and social norms, to violate laws as well as the dignity of others. They feel no compassion for those they offend or victimize. They suffer no guilt feelings and have no remorse, they are without conscience.

Most people think of psychopaths as violent offenders, such as serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer, Leonard Lake, or the BTK killer, Dennis Lynn Rader. To be sure there are many like them, but most psychopaths operate under the radar of judicial or law enforcement scrutiny. They are embezzlers, white-collar criminals, politicians, government leaders, teachers, attorneys, even members of law enforcement.

Like snakes, psychopaths are plentiful, but only a few snakes will kill you; the others, make us uncomfortable, fearful, and ruin a good day. Psychopaths can have dreadful, long-term effects when they are

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