sociopathy

From Victimhood, to Victim, to Survivor and the Chains of Broken Systems Dealing with DV

Special to the Newport (OR) News Times: Part three of Three-Part monthly series on domestic abuse Part One: Elephants in the Room: battered women are our sisters, mothers, friends, wives Part Two:  Stages of Grief, Disempowering the Abuser, Healing I’m in the courtroom at the plea bargain hearing – aka diversionary sentencing. My friend is […]

Elephants in the Room: battered women are our sisters, mothers, friends, wives

The most difficult aspect of writing about BWS — battered wife syndrome or intimate partner violence — is that as a man, I have to embrace reality: gender violence is not just fostered by the socialization of men to be more powerful than women, but for so many judges, lawyers, DAs and the public, this […]

Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 2)

In the first part of this paper, “Authoritarian Sadism in U.S. “Foreign Policy” (Part 1),” Dissident Voice, July 25, 2023, I introduced some psychoanalytic concepts and explained their application in revealing the latent motivations of high-ranking policy-makers in recent U.S. presidential administrations.  This approach was long ago studied by the eminent political scientist Harold Lasswell, […]

Beware of THIS Kind of Person…


Nina from Inside the Mind of a Human Predator joins me to discuss human psychology and maladaptive traits noticeable in that section of the population known as the narcissistic psychopath.  The narcissistic pscyhopath is not a large portion of the population, but often makes up the upper “1%” as those with no qualms with morals and taboos are much more likely to engage in underhanded methods – but it goes much deeper – the NP feeds on your time, energy and identity like a psychic vampyre!