Adult Memoir: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain SightTitle:  Confessions of a Sociopath:  A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Author:  M.E. Thomas
Format:  E-galley
Length:  320 pages
Rating:  4 stars

The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopath is an engrossing, highly captivating narrative of the author's life as a diagnosed sociopath.

She is a charismatic charmer, an ambitious self-promoter, and a cunning and calculating liar. She can induce you to invest in her financial schemes, vote for her causes, and even join her in bed. Like a real-life Lisbeth Salander, she has her own system of ethics, and like Dexter, she thrives on bending and occasionally breaking the rules. She is a diagnosed, high-functioning, noncriminal sociopath, and this is her world from her point of view.

Drawn from the author's own experiences; her popular blog, Sociopathworld.com; and scientific literature, Confessions of a Sociopath is part confessional memoir, part primer for the curious. Written from the point of view of a diagnosed sociopath, it unveils for the very first time these people who are hiding in plain sight. The book confirms suspicions and debunks myths about sociopathy, providing a road map for dealing with the sociopath in your life.  -Goodreads


My Thoughts
This book is written for those readers who, like myself are fascinated with the inner workings of the human psyche.  Part clinical analysis, part honest self discoveries laid bare; M. E. Thomas's story is as thought provoking as it is frightening.
She shows how easy it is to be a thing which is at it's core abnormal, and what can be, given the right circumstances...dangerous.
She goes further still,using incidences from her own life to illustrate how our "results driven, success at all costs society" may even foster and often does reward the behaviors of the sociopath.

One of the most surprising things that readers may come away from this book having learned is that sociopaths are more common and harder to detect than one would think.
This book is very intelligently written and achieves a  nice balance between the medical and personal aspects of the author's journey.
  
This book is a very brave undertaking in a world where it is considered the norm to run screaming from one's issues.





3 comments:

  1. All I can say about this book is WOW! It sounds like a real page turner. Thanks for your review.

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  2. God, the cover looks scary.love to check this one out.

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  3. This definitely sounds like an interesting book. I love reading about the inner psyche and psychology, so this sounds fascinating to me.

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