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The Psychopathy of Everyday Life How Antisocial Personality Disorder Affects All of Us
Martin Kantor
Book Code: C8798
ISBN: 0-275-98798-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98798-5
224 pages, N/A
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2006
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)
Discount Price: $35.96 APA 20% Conference Discount. Use code C08APA. Save 20%. Ends 9/17/2008.
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • CHOICE 2007 Outstanding Academic Title
Reviews:
  • Antisocial personality disorder (APD)--the condition one sees in the "sociopath next door," the label applied by Martha Stout in her book by the same title (2005), or in mild psychopaths, as Kantor (psychiatrist, trainer of psychiatrists at various hospitals) labels them--is currently a hot topic in clinical psychology. Individuals with APD can wreak havoc on communities. These individuals are not psychopathic serial killers. Rather, these are neighbors who "blast their horns at drivers who do not get moving...turn up their personal stereos...yell into their cell phones...rev up their motorcycles at night...or put their dogs to sleep because they bark too much." Kantor does a thorough job of describing mild psychopaths and their behavior while differentiating them from those with APD and other disorders. He provides a thorough examination of the etiology, personality structure, and course/prognosis of this disorder and finishes with excellent chapters on therapy with mild psychopaths and a six-step method for helping victims cope with the "psychopathy of everyday life."... Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.
    —Choice     March 2007
  • Practitioner and author Kantor explains how to recognize, understand and cope with mild psychopaths, including politicians who lie, sales people who push bad products, Internet cruisers who are in reality identity thieves. He also helps define the difference between being a psychopath and being successful in Western society. He describes behaviors, the core personality structures, associated and overlapping disorders, social issues and successful psychopaths, causes, course of the disease and diagnosis, therapy and coping mechanisms.
    —SciTech Book News     December 2006
  • [K]antor has taken on an important and difficult subject.
    —PsycCritiques     2006
Description: Is there a mild psychopath near you? Or in you? If so, what can and should you do? Find out in this riveting exploration of a personality disorder usually dismissed by the mental health profession, and never before the topic of in-depth scholarly exploration. It is comparatively easy to recognize the true, full-blown psychopaths-the Hitlers, Stalins and Gacys. But what professionals and lay people alike often do not recognize is that we are surrounded by mild psychopaths, people who do not reach the level of their infamous counterparts, yet still share some of their traits. Fifteen-time author Martin Kantor, a psychiatrist whose last work, Understanding Paranoia, also zeroed in on everyday problems, explains how to recognize, understand and cope with the mild psychopaths one encounters every day.
Who are these everyday psychopaths? They are politicians who lie to get votes, swindlers who phish the Internet to steal identities, salesmen who push cars or other products they know are lemons, businessmen who dupe the public in ways that barely skirt the law, doctors who perform unnecessary surgery because they need the money. The list goes on. Some would argue that each of us must use some of the means of the mild psychopath to be successful in life. Where is the line, and what do you do when those around you cross it? The Psychopathy of Everyday Life helps you decide. Kantor spotlights and disproves widely-held beliefs about mild psychopathy, then shows us methods to deal with such people, and such traits in ourselves. His conclusions and vignettes drawn from the treatment room and from everyday life, for example, show that psychopathy is a widespread problem, not one confined to low life' people in jails, or to men and women in mental hospitals. Psychopaths are not all failures in life who could be labled either bad' or mad;' many are quite successful and held up as models. And they are not all guilt-free with no conscience; some do want to escape their aggressive and socially harmful world where being honest, forthright and ethical is abnormal. Kantor offers an eclectic approach based on classic therapies to facilitate help and self-help methods for the victim and the psychopath.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Psychopathy of Everyday Life
  • Behavioral Manifestations
  • Some Psychopaths of Everyday Life
  • A Few Cases
  • The Core Personality Structure
  • Differential Diagnosis: Associated and Overlapping Disorders
  • Social
  • Successful Psychopaths
  • Cause
  • Course and Prognosis
  • Therapy of the Mild Psychopath
  • Coping With the Psychopaths of Everyday Life
LC Card Number: 2006015393
LCC Class: RC555
Dewey Class: 616
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