http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2010/05/28/238-%e2%80%93-exploring-the-criminal-personality-with-stanton-samenow/ All the psychology you need to know and just enough to make you dangerous Sat, 26 May 2012 04:33:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2010/05/28/238-%e2%80%93-exploring-the-criminal-personality-with-stanton-samenow/comment-page-1/#comment-6386 Tobin Crenshaw Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:21:36 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=377#comment-6386 Using Dr. Samenow's videos and books now and really learning a lot, would like to find 3 volumes together for better deal than Amazon. Using Dr. Samenow’s videos and books now and really learning a lot, would like to find 3 volumes together for better deal than Amazon.

]]> http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2010/05/28/238-%e2%80%93-exploring-the-criminal-personality-with-stanton-samenow/comment-page-1/#comment-5862 Rick Vail Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:43:28 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=377#comment-5862 A fascinating interview; I was wondering if people who are anti-social think they are good persons wouldn’t a good person view themselves as good as well. So who is right? Hmmm… Perhaps the good have a more realistic view that they are a mix of dark and light. The part of his assessment that was resonant with me was that those who are psychopathic are blame shifters to the extreme. I have never met a sociopath that didn’t have someone or something to blame their bad behavior upon. Of course I have only known three people that I am absolutely certain were true sociopaths but I suspect I have known more. M. Scott Peck in his book People of The Lie was the first to point out what seemed to me to be obvious after learning it, which is that those who are evil do all they can to hide it and if sufficiently intelligent and charming enough can become so sophisticated in their deception they could conceivably live without ever being detected. The difficulty in dealing with evil is those of us who are not diabolical cannot relate to a mind that is indifferent to the feelings of others. This is what I would say is the hallmark of a sociopath, complete indifference to the feelings of others except where eliciting a particular emotional response will serve their ends. I would be curious to know his views on why other cultures, collective in particular, have a lower incidence of sociopathy in their respective populations e.g. about 2% in some Asian cultures as compared with approximately 4% in our own. Finally I heard Dr. Laura Schlesinger recommend his book Before it’s Too Late to a caller on her radio show, perhaps next time you could interview him about that book. I lied, one more thing; I would love to hear his philosophical definition of evil. Rick the insomniac PS You Rock David, Great Interview A fascinating interview; I was wondering if people who are anti-social think they are good persons wouldn’t a good person view themselves as good as well. So who is right? Hmmm… Perhaps the good have a more realistic view that they are a mix of dark and light. The part of his assessment that was resonant with me was that those who are psychopathic are blame shifters to the extreme. I have never met a sociopath that didn’t have someone or something to blame their bad behavior upon. Of course I have only known three people that I am absolutely certain were true sociopaths but I suspect I have known more. M. Scott Peck in his book People of The Lie was the first to point out what seemed to me to be obvious after learning it, which is that those who are evil do all they can to hide it and if sufficiently intelligent and charming enough can become so sophisticated in their deception they could conceivably live without ever being detected. The difficulty in dealing with evil is those of us who are not diabolical cannot relate to a mind that is indifferent to the feelings of others. This is what I would say is the hallmark of a sociopath, complete indifference to the feelings of others except where eliciting a particular emotional response will serve their ends. I would be curious to know his views on why other cultures, collective in particular, have a lower incidence of sociopathy in their respective populations e.g. about 2% in some Asian cultures as compared with approximately 4% in our own. Finally I heard Dr. Laura Schlesinger recommend his book Before it’s Too Late to a caller on her radio show, perhaps next time you could interview him about that book. I lied, one more thing; I would love to hear his philosophical definition of evil.
Rick the insomniac
PS You Rock David, Great Interview

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