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The Hormone Boost: How to Power Up Your 6 Essential Hormones for Strength, Energy, and Weight Loss

Natasha Turner

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Dr. Natasha Turner's first book, The Hormone Diet, revealed hormonal imbalance as a revolutionary...

Your Baby Week by Week: The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Your New Baby

Simone Cave and Caroline Fertleman

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Finding out what to expect during each week of pregnancy is easy; the shops are heaving with...

A Song to My City: Washington, DC

Carol Lancaster and Douglas Farrar

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This deeply felt memoir is a love letter to Washington, DC. Carol Lancaster, a third-generation...

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Nov 8, 2020

Making a Psychopath: My Journey into 7 Dangerous Minds

Mark Freestone | 2020 | Crime, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences

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This was such an interesting glimpse into the minds and motivations of psychopaths, and also made me realise that there is most certainly no such thing as ‘one size fits all’. I also learnt that we bandy this word ‘psychopath’ around and we don’t always use it correctly. Generally speaking, psychopaths are people who have no remorse or worries about using and abusing people. They have no feelings of guilt over their actions.

This was a fascinating look at seven very different people (six men and one woman), and looked at how they used different kinds of violence and manipulation to get what they wanted.

This also looks at rehabilitation and whether it’s actually possible - which surprised me. I had thought that there was no chance of that at all. I shouldn’t have judged though, because all people are different, and that applies to those diagnosed with psychopathy as well. Some will never be able to rehabilitate, but there are those who want to be able to live their lives out of an institution.

I’ve said this a lot, but this really WAS interesting, insightful and informative, and I very much enjoyed it.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole and the author, Mark Freestone, for reading along and adding clarifications to us readers, as well as answering our questions!