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Psychopath Inside A Neuroscientists Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain
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James Fallon
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, August 10, 2014
Recently, my wife asked me, "Why are you reading so many books about psychopaths?" I answered her by saying, "I suspect I am a bit of a psychopath myself," which rather shocked her. Most people I know are empathic people whose instincts are positive and good. My wife and daughter fit into such a description. I tend to be rather cool and less empathic than most people I know. I am also fascinated by morbid movies and books, stories (fictional and truthful). I have had serious involvements throughout my life with people who were predatory and dangerous. Two were bosses. One was a cult leader who stole about a million dollars in Southern Oregon over a twenty year period. None of these were murderers, but I am pretty sure they all three were non-violent psychopaths. They completely fooled me and many other people. I have some empathy. I have not murdered, tortured, or raped; I have done some good deeds. I consider this book excellent because it is well written, because the author has immense credentials as far as how the brain works, and because he discovered that he himself is a psychopath in a very amusing way. Why is he by usual standards a reasonably decent person when his family tree contains many killers going back to kings of England centuries ago? Interesting answers can be found in the book. If you are an empathic person, you or people you love may be victims of psychopaths. They may be your spouse or lover or your boss, even if they are not killers. This book may help you protect yourself. If you wonder why you are colder and less empathic than most of the people you know, this book may interest you or provide some comfort, as it did for me.
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I, Roger Williams
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Mary Lee Settle
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, May 31, 2009
Roger Williams was one of the greatest Americans in our colonial period. Most of us take freedom of religious belief and freedom of speech for granted, but without his courage and imagination in founding Rhode Island and putting these ideas into the charter of the new colony, we might not be the country we are. Settle's book is an imaginative leap into Williams' mind. As far as I can tell, it is based on accurate research. However, her book is an example of how sometimes fiction can convey history in a more exciting and more meaningful way than non fiction alone.
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