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Psychopathy is responsible for more social distress and disruption than all other psychiatric disorders combined. Psychopaths are found in every segment of society, and there is a good chance that you will have a painful or humiliating encounter with one. The reason most of us refrain from routinely exploiting and harming others is because we possess a conscience.

“Human predators populate our society.” Stefan Verstappen, Defense Against the Psychopath Psychopaths are human predators. They coerce, manipulate, lie, steal, defraud, abuse, and take life, without feeling guilt or remorse. A leading expert on psychopathy, Robert Hare, estimates that 1% of people are psychopaths; while the clinical psychologist Martha Stout suggests this figure is […]

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