Average Customer Rating: (7 votes)

#Better Late Than Never (2008-07-26) This book was recommended to me by an instructor/coach at a Workplace Conflict Program. It was such an important book for me to read as a recent target of workplace psychpaths. It has really opened my eyes to this frightening issue. This is a book for anyone who is planning on having a job or has a job.

#One of the Most Essential Works on Psychopathy (2008-03-14) Snakes in Suits is one of the most essential works on psychopathy, as well gives the reader the working knowledge of how psychopaths operate in the job industry, especially in the corporate workplace. Not only will this book to help the reader to understand how corporate psychopaths operate, but it will give a great deal of insights and helpful tips on how to deal with them and how to protect oneself from them. I give high praises to Hare for this work on the subject. This book is well written and easy to read as well an eye opening experience. I surly would recommend this book. Psychopaths are ruthless, emotionless, and consciousness individuals to which they only serve themselves at the expense of others. All words coming out of their mouths would be lies, and if you are appeared as important or special to them, it is a safe bet that they are using you. With this book as a tool and a guide, the readers would be able to identify each pathological individual and understand them more clearly as well to protect oneself from them. I would recommend the readers to study other works that discussed with the certain aspects of the study on the psychopaths, including Without Conscience (by Robert Hare), The Mask of Sanity (by Hervey Checkley), The Sociopath Next Door (by Martha Stout), In Sheep s Clothing (by George Simon), and Andrzej Lobaczwski s Political Ponerology. With these works, one will have a good deal of working knowledge of the phenomenon of psychopaths in our world, in our governments, in our workplace, in our neighborhood, and even in our homes.

#A must read for every working person (2007-12-30) This books gives a wealth of insight into how to deal with psychopaths in the work place. It clearly outlines how the psychopaths with the use of lying, manipulation and charm often easily manages to get pass the screening interviews for high powered jobs in the workplace. It describes the whole process by which the company and the whole workplace becomes toxic due to the psychopath s influence and it offers the steps and solutions to counteract in order to protect oneself and also for businesses to protect themselves. Yes a powerful book, that adds to the other book by Robert Hare called Without Conscience.

#It s scary how many psychopaths we know....... (2007-12-28) This is an excellent book and an easy read for anyone. The authors (being highly educated psychologists) did an excellent job in writing this book for the average person. They communicate the characteristics of workplace psychopaths in plain, clear language than anyone can understand and relate to. Readers will be shocked when reading the book because they will realize that there are psychopaths all among us in the work place, I easily identified two or three individuals in my short career who fit the bill perfectly.

#a study of the pathological personality (2007-11-04) This is an astounding, essential reference when it comes to understanding and dealing with psychopathological individuals in the workplace. They are FAR more prevalent than most people imagine, and especially in positions of power and authority, to which they naturally gravitate. As the authors point out, psychopaths rarely take the form of Hannibal Lectur , but are much more likely to come in the guise of a slick, fast talking, charismatic high-flyer, who ruthlessly backstabs and manipulates his way into positions of power, for personal gain. Basically, they are invisible to anyone who does not have the knowledge of how they operate (ie: the majority), and this is what makes them so lethal. Psychopathy is not a mental illness , it is a personality disorder, and as such, psychopaths are usually free of the normal quirks and neuroses of normal people, and instead operate under the blinding inertia of unquestioning self-confidence, without a hint of self-examination or internal doubt - for the psychopath, emotions are simply used as a dramatic tool, in order to evoke pity, guilt, fear or self-doubt in others, for manipulation purposes, and are completely lacking in connection to any deeper meaning. This book is founded on extensive experience and clinical studies, eg. the Hare Psychopathy Checklists PCL-R, and builds on the established work of Hervey Cleckley ( Mask of Sanity , also recommended). It pulls back the curtain, shows all the tricks, how they work in practice in the modern corporate environment, and how to defend against them. It describes in some detail the scary surreal reality that the psychopath inhabits, in which conscience and emotion are somehow pretend - how their brains are activated in a completely different pattern (as shown on ECG studies) - everything is a coldblooded game of oneupmanship and self-interest, regardless of consequence. Thoroughly recommended to anyone in a position of responsibility of assessing people - recruitment or management, and also to anyone studying psychopathy and its implications in the real wold.