A review by treehuggeranonymous
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

2.0

I started out really enjoying this book. The anecdotes on psychopaths is interesting. It's easy to read and starts by posing questions with some support from Freudian analysis. Had I known that psychoanalytic theory was the closest the book would come to using psychology to analyse conscience I'd probably have given the book a hard pass. The book seems to rely more on bibical teachings than psychological research, which is a shame given that the topic has a lot more to do with the latter field. This does not seem like a book written by a person with a background in psychology.