How to Know If You Are Dating a Psychopath, Jen Waite and Michael Stone
How do you deal with a psychopath? What if you realize that you are married to one? This week at The Upgrade, we are joined by Jen Waite, author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: Memories of Marriage and Betrayal , and Dr. Michael Stone, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and author of Anatomy of Evil. about psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists: how to recognize them, how to avoid them, and how to get rid of them.
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This week we talked about:
- How the “everyday psychopath” attracts people
- The cycle “idealize, devalue, throw away”
- How to deal with the effects of toxic relationships
- Redefining “evil” in secular terms
- Diagnosing a psychopath
- Difference between sociopath and psychopath
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