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Is Kevin related to Liam? (Channel 4's weatherman) Hope not, i quite like Liam.

I think K.D. was the presenter of Psychopath Night (also Channel 4) - it was crap. It showed ME in a yellow wig in a swimming pool, explained why firemen show psychopathic traits, yadda yadda - you get the picture. And Channel 4 used to be the better channel, as reputations go... 

Don't know whether K. Dutton is really that bad or just dumbing it down for mass-appeal.  Well not as bad as the Guardian's Ron Jonson (not that that's an accomplishment though, even the DM beats the Guardian into the kerb these days).

Yeah. He doesn't tell you anything other than what's bloody obvious. It reads like an extended chiché. McNab, the military psychopath, is an endless fount of platitudes. I mean, I have respect for his background and training, but he gives the reader the impression that he's just a prop used by Captain Obvious to corroborate and echo his snippets of trite advice ... It just didn't resonate with me. Then again, I am well-read on the subject, so of course I am assessing it far more critically than your average reader. And the look the cashier gave me when I paid for it was worth the twenty bucks. Apparently, sociopathy isn't so normalized within our society that I can do that without causing eyelashes to bat furiously. :)

Any book that really gets into the causes of sociopathy and how to treat it, etc., will probably be really boring and academic.

He's clearly trying to capitalize on a trend. He summarizes psychopathy in terms of a series of traits that he likens to dials, which can be turned up or down, and attempts to instruct the average person on how to maximize psychopathic traits within their personality so as to harness their purported benefits, without falling prey to their shortcomings. He expounds upon about the sociopathic mindset by appealing to philosophers whose thinking conformed to it, but spends very little time delving into the psychological and physiological roots of the disorder. In attempting to remain pragmatic in his treatment of the topic, he forfeits any depth of coverage, and fails to put forth any new or innovative insights on the subject. In short, I was unimpressed, set it down about halfway through, and still have yet to finish it. It's a trite and superficial book; a cash grab by a purveyor of pop-psychology.

It sounds like a Buzzfeed article. "10 ways on how acting like a sociopath can help you at work."

I haven't read it. Do you think she's a sociopath?

I don't know. There's probably academic journals that cover it. all of the books about sociopaths that most people find interesting are about criminals and the stuff they did.  Off the top of my head, the only book I can think of that tries to get into non-criminal sociopaths is M.E.'s book. I thought parts of it were interesting but other parts put me to sleep.

Did you like Hares book?

I think he tries to sell his checklist courses.

Sure. There's "The Mask of Sanity" by Hervey M. Cleckly, for one, although it is outdated... And "Without Conscience - The disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us" by Robert D. Hare, author of the PCL-R...