Tactics used by female psychopaths to avoid detection. The name Houdini is synonymous with escape… illusion… magic… tricks. Harry Houdini, a master escape artist and illusionist, defied gravity, life and death.  His acts were each more daring than the next and his popularity soared in the early 1900s.  Large audiences packed theaters to watch him...Read More

 Clues that a female psychopath may be in your midst Having lived with two psychopaths—a mother and a sister, I am hoping that my personal experience will help others to better understand and protect themselves from women displaying the psychopathic personality disorder. My goal is to sensitize readers to how female psychopaths act and behave...Read More

What do you do when someone close to you is envious of you?  I have had that experience having lived with two psychopaths – a mother and a sister.  They refused to live and let live, which means they gloated when I had bad luck.  Worse still, they tried to turn my life upside down...Read More

According to eminent psychologist and psychopathy researcher J. Reid Meloy, the life of a psychopath is marked by “incessant cycles of greed, spoiling, and devaluation prompted by boredom.”  What does this mean?  Motivated by greed and subconscious envy, the psychopath seeks to destroy others, either literally, or by degrading and devaluing.   Doing this allows the...Read More

“Groundbreaking and “trailblazing” are the first two words that come to mind after reading Understanding Female Offenders –– Psychopathy, Criminal Behavior, Assessment , and Treatment. (Smith, Gacono and Cunliffe, Academic Press 2021). Psychologists Jason Smith, Carl Gacono and Ted Cunliffe have authored a pioneering work that synthesizes assessment strategies and explains pitfalls in analyzing female...Read More