by Adelyn Birch | Aug 31, 2014 |

“Norms of forgiveness seem unduly to burden the oppressed.”
– Nancy A. Stanlick
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 23, 2014 |

“My mother, the most beautiful person in the world. She was strong, she worked hard to take care of four kids. A beautiful person. I started stealing her jewelry when I was in the fifth grade. You know, I never really knew the bitch — we went our separate ways.”
Quote from “Without Conscience,” by Dr. Robert Hare
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 20, 2014 |

About one year ago,
I created a post similar to this one to acknowledge all of you who come to this website. I’ve decided to make it a yearly tradition. Many more of you find your way here one year later, from many more countries around the world.
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 17, 2014 |

After our experience in a psychopathic bond, we are shaken to our core. The firm foundation we believed we stood on crumbled beneath us and we hang on, barely, in any way we can.
We find ourselves in a liminal place — a place of ‘in-between.’
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 12, 2014 |

This guest post is by ‘Reality,’ a reader of this blog.
“After contemplating narcissism and psychopathy,
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 11, 2014 |

Once Upon a While by Claire Maeda. This illustration is permitted for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. No changes were made to this image.
This morning I received a note
from a reader named Michael who said, “I am so emotionally devastated that I have been struggling to keep myself safe from suicide.”
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 8, 2014 |

Psychopathy is the best-kept secret.
It’s a wildly popular subject, and it has been for a while. Psychopathic characters pop up everywhere. They’re portrayed in movies and on TV. Best-selling books are written about them. In reams of articles, we hear about psychopaths as serial killers, CEOs and those who work on Wall Street and in government.
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by Adelyn Birch | Aug 4, 2014 |

“Misinterpreting the behavior of a disordered character is the first step in the process of being victimized by them.”
Dr. George Simon
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