How to Spot a Psychopath

By Joe Navarro

Based on former FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro’s experience as a criminal profiler and behavior specialist, this short booklet/checklist - "How To Spot A Psychopath" - provides the average person with the tools necessary for spotting and assessing psychopaths. This is a must read for anyone who wants to protect themselves, their children, or their loved ones. This short booklet/checklist offers practical guidance and a checklist of the 150 behaviors that are closely associated with psychopathy. It is easy to use, intended for the average layperson. You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to use this. This will not only give you insight, it will also lay to rest any fears or concerns you have about psychopaths, so that you can do something about it. Practical, fast, easy to read and understand.

This is a NEWLY revised edition featuring more detailed introductory material on psychopaths and an extended checklist of now 150 features!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joe Navarro
• Release date: Oct 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466015821

Joe Navarro

For 25 years, Joe Navarro worked as an FBI special agent in the area of counterintelligence and behavioral assessment. Since retiring in 2003, he has become one of the world's leading experts on nonverbal communication and today travels internationally to share his unique knowledge of human behavior through business lectures and consulting with major corporations and financial institutions. For the past three years, he has also spoken at the Harvard Business School. Joe has appeared on major U.S. and International media outlets including CNN and CNN International, Fox News, CBS, NBC, NPR Radio, The Times (UK), and The Guardian (UK), on topics as varied as interviewing, terrorism, and body language. Experts have described Joe as "a world-class observer" (Jack Canfield) and "a master of reading nonverbals" (David Givens, Ph.D). His most recent publication, Louder than Words, written specifically for the business world and the basis of his presentations to corporations and the Harvard Business School, received high acclaim from The Wall Street Journal's FINS Digital Network as "One of the six best business books to read for your career in 2010." Joe is also the author of the best-selling body language book, What Every Body is Saying which was published in 2008, Read 'Em and Reap, Advanced Interviewing Techniques, and Hunting Terrorists.

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Introduction

If there is one thing you learn after 25 years in the FBI, it’s that the world is full of predators and they are often very difficult to spot. They come in all shapes and sizes, from every nationality, from the nicest neighborhoods to the poorest, and from every walk of life, men and women.

They come in many forms: the seemingly nice elderly man who scams you of your life’s savings, the priest that repeatedly rapes the choir boy, the stalker who kills college women, the neighbor who lures innocent children, the toxic boss who makes life miserable for his employees, the nurse that wants to rid the world of the elderly, the father who imprisons and rapes his own daughter, or the husband who terrifies and beats his wife daily. These are all predators; they are in every way psychopaths.

What psychopaths have in common is a profound sense of entitlement to do as they please, to seek reward by any method, to deviate from rules and social norms, to violate laws as well as the dignity of others. They feel no compassion for those they offend or victimize. They suffer no guilt feelings and have no remorse, they are without conscience.

Most people think of psychopaths as violent offenders, such as serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer, Leonard Lake, or the BTK killer, Dennis Lynn Rader. To be sure there are many like them, but most psychopaths operate under the radar of judicial or law enforcement scrutiny. They are embezzlers, white-collar criminals, politicians, government leaders, teachers, attorneys, even members of law enforcement.

Like snakes, psychopaths are plentiful, but only a few snakes will kill you; the others, make us uncomfortable, fearful, and ruin a good day. Psychopaths can have dreadful, long-term effects when they are

Reviews for How to Spot a Psychopath

[Aleksandra · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's such a good book. I will recommend to everyone!!!

[Arlene Lewis · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

On the list of 150 traits many are repeats. This list could be massively scaled back by cutting out repetition. Better resource is Robert Hare's book Without Conscience.

[Master English · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good start to learn about Psychopaths. I am now encouraged to learn more from the Forensic Psychology.

[alminojac · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I thought it was okay. A lot of the information are commonsensical.

[Joseph & Amanda King · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

As a psychopath, my review on this isn't positive. It's a pathetic attempt and extremely vague written article. Since people are so interested about psychopaths I should enlighten them. People have always been curious about the unknown and will read any garbage that they come across. It's been that way for thousands of years and will continue to repeat itself. There's a reason why we stay hidden, it's because of how "normal " people treat those that's different. Want to talk about cruel? You can find it by looking into a mirror because it's staring back at you.

[Annie Belanger · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This would have been a useful book to have around while I was dating