Psychopaths experience a feeling of exhilaration and thrill when they successfully manipulate and deceive others.  This feeds into their outsized sense of self-importance.  For the psychopath, laws exist for other people … they can break them, skirt them, avoid them, knowing that they can either charm or explain their way out with a smirking smile if...Read More

A major facet of a psychopath’s evil deeds is deception of others.  “Psychopaths are chronic liars and research indicates that we are most likely to be misled by the special skill we think we possess to detect lying.  The psychopath lies for many reasons, the most common to experience the feeling of contemptuous delight when...Read More

This morning I received an email from a celebrated psychologist who wrote on dark personality traits (e.g., psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, sadism, authoritarianism).  He labeled these personality traits “dark.”  To further add to this, Dr. Robert Hare who developed the psychopathy checklist and world recognized psychopathy researcher wrote…”But the distinction between mentally ill killers and sane...Read More

The Psychopath is dark energy at work in the world … . See Born to Destroy at www.winisbooks.com

“Psychopaths must aggressively devalue others in real life to shore up their idealized identification of the self as Predator” (Meloy, The Mark of Cain 12). “The specter of deflation haunts the edges of their psyches … Therefore, psychopaths act on others to derogate, devalue, dismiss, and, in some cases, destroy … ”(Meloy, The Mark of Cain 12-13). For more...Read More