Claudia Moscovici

Dangerous Liaisons (eBook, ePUB)

How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What do Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and timeless literary seducers epitomized by Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the incapacity to love. In other words, these men are psychopaths. Unfortunately, most psychopaths don't advertise themselves as heartless social predators. They come across as charming, intelligent, romantic and kind. Through their believable "mask of sanity," they lure many of us into their dangerous nets. Dangerous Liaisons explains clearly what psychopaths are, why they act the way they do, how they attract us and whom they tend to target. Above all, this book helps victims find the strength to end their toxic relationships with psychopaths and move on, stronger and wiser, with the rest of their lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761855705
• Artikelnr.: 48206353

Autorenporträt

Claudia Moscovici is art critic and novelist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She obtained her A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in the same field from Brown University and has taught courses on the French Enlightenment, Romanticism and art and aesthetics at Boston University and the University of Michigan. She's the author of the art and aesthetics textbook, Romanticism and Postromanticism (Lexington Books, 2010), and a founding partner of Panodyssey.com, an international art and culture collaborative venture started in 2019 by Universal Music France executive Alexandre Leforestier, IT innovator Yann Rigo and marketing entrepreneur Valentin Bert. Due to the popularity of her art blog, https://fineartebooks.wordpress.com/, she has been voted by artists one of the top five "most famous female art critics in the world" on ranker.com, the largest international database of opinions, with more than 1 billion votes.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part I. What is a Psychopath?
1. Charismatic Psychopaths: Mark Hacking and Neil Entwistle
2. What is a Psychopath? Close Readings of Hervey Cleckley's
The Mask of Sanity
3. Psychopaths and Pathological Lying
4. The Psychopath's Antisocial Behavior
5. Psychopaths as Lovers
6. Psychopaths and Failure
Part II. The Process of Psychopathic Seduction
1. The Case of Drew Peterson
2. Red Flags: How to Identify a Psychopathic Bond
3. The Process of Psychopathic Seduction: Idealize, Devalue and Discard
4. Artistic Psychopaths: The Case of Picasso
5. The Psychopathic Seducer in Literature: Benjamin Constant's Adolphe
6. The Women Who Love Psychopaths
7. Coping Mechanisms for Staying with a Psychopath
Part III. How to Save Yourself from Psychopathic Seduction
1. Escaping the Psychopath
2. Understanding the Science Behind the Disorder
3. The Two Phases of Mourning: The Rational and the Emotional
4. Sharing Information with Others
5. Resisting Family/External Pressure to Stay with the Psychopath
6. Know your Worth: A Healthy Self-Esteem is the Key to a Good Life
7. Conclusion: Reclaiming Your Life: Asserting Your Agency and Your
Boundaries
Notes
Bibliography
Additional Resources: Websites
About the Author