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Pashalis:
a few months ago I discovered the channel of a man called Thomas Sheridan on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThomasSheridanArts

he uploaded a vast number of videos about psychopathy:

one example:
Labyrinth of the Psychopath 18 - The Bigger Picture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-DmXynOcY&list=PL40E394348A73E6FD&index=11

from what I can see so far, his research into psychopathy and his conlusions pretty much corresponds with ours.

he has wrote a book called "Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath" the description from Amazon is the following:


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As well-researched as a scholarly work, yet with the immediacy and accessibility of a layman, Puzzling People is a first-person account of the cheats, the charlatans, the liars, the neglectful parents, abusive teachers, two-faced politicians and their Psychopathic Control Grid, tyrannical bosses and colleagues from hell we have all encountered, including the lying lovers who use us then lose us in an instant. Puzzling People takes an in-depth look at how the minds of psychopaths work and why, and focusses on what you can do to survive and thrive and ultimately escape forever. Delivered in a voice that makes it clear that the author lives what he writes, Puzzling People is an invaluable field guide to spotting and avoiding entities so completely lacking in empathy or compassion they may as well be counted as a different species entirely to human beings.
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he is currently writing a follow up book wich will be publishead in the beginning of 2012 . the discription of the book from from his website:

--- Quote ---Follow Up Book to Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath - EARLY 2012
At the moment I am currently working on the follow up book to Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath. I had no real intention to write a follow up - but with the success of PPLP which has become something of an underground sensation, my publishers Velluminous Press have requested me to write a follow up book. I have also received hundreds of emails and private messages from people looking for more of my insights into the subject of psychopathic abuse and recovery. I also want to take the next book were I initially wanted PPLP to go as more of a philosophical guide to understanding the full impact the experience has on victims and how to incorporate this "lesson learned" into a more enriching and fulfilling life.

The next book will, apart from dealing with topics not covered in depth in PPLP: child psychopaths, aging psychopaths, cult leader psychopaths as well as detailed behavioural profiles of the most common specific persona types utilised by psychopaths to gain trust and find enablers/victims. The latest scientific research into neuro-sceince and behavioural understanding, the increasingly, overtly proto-psychopathic social order and many other new aspects and information. Along with recovery tools for victims to incorporate into their own lives.

The time has now come to move beyond the age of psychopathic abuse and on towards a more holistic understanding of human psychology and what it really means to be a victim. If psychopaths are hard wired to be predators, then are by extrapolation, victims also hardwired to be victims too? If so, why and how to break the cycle.

Again, thank you all for making Puzzling People: the Labyrinth of the Psychopath continue to have such a major impact beyond my expectations and which has now become a book which people have come to value and incorporate into their own personal lives. You are the real heroes, not me. It is going to be a challenge to put it all this together into a single book and I hope to explode the lid off the subject by taking it to a more philosophical and transformative experience for abuse survivors and society as a whole.

During the course of 2012 non-English versions of Puzzling People will be translated with initial versions coming out in German, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Slovak and Arabic.

All the Best,
Thomas
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his website: http://thomassheridanartist.blogspot.com/

did anyone read his book or watched his videos ?
and if so what do you think ?

Edit: spelling

Laura:
I'll be having a look thanks to you finding it and bringing it up!

Scarlet:
Hey Pashalis, I have viewed some of his videos and think his information is consistent with what has been discussed on here and in the recommended books on psychopathy.  Although I own his book, I have yet to read it.  Recently I have been reading research that has come out of Australia (John Clarke and Clive Boddy) and those guys are really focusing on corporate psychopaths. 

Clarke separates psychopaths into four categories: the organizational psychopath, the corporate criminal psychopath, the violent criminal psychopath and the occupational psychopath (from Working with Monsters: How to identify and protect yourself from the workplace psychopath). 

Violent criminal psychopaths are the physically abusive ones the mass media actually discuss.

Occupational psychopaths use their jobs to satisfy their "needs" and generally don't want to move up in companies.  These could include army officers, security guards, etc, (Clarke, 76).

Organizational psychopaths use a number of strategies to manipulate their ways into their companies.  They generally have two main goals.  Their first goal is to get to the top of their profession, because of the financial rewards and positions of power it gives them (Clarke, 59).  Their second goal is to be able to inflict suffering and misery on the people they work with, (Clarke, 60). 

Corporate criminal psychopaths commit crimes in their workplace or as a part of an organized ring devoted to corporate crimes.  "This category includes bank employees who defraud their employers, stockbrokers involved in scams, builders who con clients..."(Clarke, 65-66).  These psychopaths are usually superficial and brilliant at giving the "right" impressions to con their victims.  If caught in a lie they rework the facts and confuse the listener, (Clarke, 67).

Clive Boddy has chosen to label occupational, organizational and corporate criminal psychopaths as "criminal psychopaths" and he has apparently developed a measurement tool for detecting them: Psychopathy Measure-Management Research Version (PM-MRV), but I have yet to finish his book, Corporate Psychopaths: Organizational Destroyers to read what the measurement consists of. 

Anyway, I don't want to discount Sheridan's research, but would like to share that these Australian researchers have been doing a lot of research on "corporate" psychopaths as of late.  I HIGHLY recommend Clarke's Working with Monsters book for those interested in the differences between "corporate" psychopaths specifically...hopefully this is not off topic.

Laura:
I'm about 1/4 of the way through the book and I'm going to recommend this one highly.  Even if there are a few nitpicky things that he could have more clarity on, (IMO), overall, it is so good and accurate that those things aren't worth quibbling over.  It's kind of like "psychopathy for dummies" and he's done a darn good job.   

Laura:
I finished the book and really, the nitpicky things are small and the overall grasp of the topic outweighs them making this a must read book!  It says all the things I would like to say myself (and have in various ways) but I don't think I would write it in as easy-to-read a format.   I would probably get bogged down in citing studies and so forth.  Sheridan doesn't do that.  It's pretty straightforward.  Yes, he repeats some things, but they bear repeating in the various contexts in which they occur and it flows well.  Very easy to understand.

He talks about psychopathy from the personal level to the government/elite level, drawing the comparisons nicely. If you really want to get the topic across to people who haven't got a lot of time or inclination to read long or complicated books, who need something practical right now, this is the book.   

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