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January 13, 2012

Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part Two

In Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part One, I went through a comprehensive list of sociopathic traits based on psychologists Hervey Cleckley’s and Robert Hare’s psychopathy checklists. For every single item mentioned, I can think of a real life example that every one of my clients has suffered. Are these men’s wives, girlfriends and exes sociopaths? Maybe, […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Custody, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Legal, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Negative Advocates, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Rage Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive women, antisocial personality disorder, ASPD, Bernie Madoff, borderline personality disorder, BPD, Casey Anthony, entitlement, exploitation, female sociopaths, female sociopathy, Fiona Donnison, Hervey Cleckley, histrionic personality disorder, HPD, Kelli Lynn Murphy, narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, Robert Hare, Theresa Riggi

January 4, 2012

Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part One

People hear the word sociopath and it conjures up images of Charles Manson, Bernie Madoff, and other serial killers, hucksters and con artists. Yes, these individuals are sociopaths, but they’re extreme and obvious ones. Most sociopaths don’t reach the notoriety of Manson and Madoff. Even so, sociopathy is far more common than we like to […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive women, Bernie Madoff, Charles Manson, entitlement, exploitation, female sociopaths, female sociopathy, Hervey Cleckley, Robert Hare

October 30, 2011

BlogTalkRadio: Rethinking Female Sociopathy

Does your wife, girlfriend, ex or partner’s ex have a Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde personality? Does she have a “good mask” that she shows the outside world while subjecting you and/or the kids to her cruel and abusive side? Does she have little to no empathy or selective empathy? Does she throw a temper […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Rage, Sexual Abuse, Shrink4Men Radio, Stalking and Harassment Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive women, accountability, blame, domestic violence, Dr Tara J. Palmatier, empathy, female sociopaths, Shrink4Men Radio, sociopaths

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