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Culture of Empathy
Builder:
Tim McGregor
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Tim McGregor and Edwin Rutsch:
How to Build a Culture of Empathy with Sociopaths, Psychopaths,
Narcissists
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Tim McGregor has worked as a practitioner in the UK addiction
treatment sector for over 20 years. Tim founded
Substance Misuse
Solutions Ltd,
that involves consultancy work and commissioning advice on drug and alcohol
treatment. He is coauthor with Jane McGregor of
The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities.
Jane is
a lecturer at the Institute of Mental Health, University of
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"Sociopathy affects an estimated 1-4% of the population,
but not all sociopaths are cold-blooded murderers. They're best described
as people without a conscience, who prey on those with high levels of
empathy, but themselves lack any concern for others' feelings and show no
remorse for their actions. Drawing on real life cases, The Empathy Trap
explores this taboo subject and looks at how people can protect themselves
against these arch-manipulators."
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Conference: Pathologies: Sociopathy |
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The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial Personalities |
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Sociopathy affects an estimated 1-4% of the population, but
not all sociopaths are cold-blooded murderers. They're best described as
people without a conscience, who prey on those with high levels of
empathy, but themselves lack any concern for others' feelings and show no
remorse for their actions. Drawing on real life cases, The Empathy Trap
explores this taboo subject and looks at how people can protect themselves
against these arch-manipulators.
Topics include:
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Defining
sociopathy, and related conditions such as psychopathy, narcissism,
and personality disorder; how sociopaths operate and why they're often
difficult to spot;
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identifying
sociopathic behaviour;
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the
sociopath's relations with other people and why they often go
unpunished;
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coping with
the aftermath of a destructive relationship;
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re-establishing
boundaries and control of your life;
p ractical
advice for keeping sociopaths at bay;
resources and
further help.
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Empathic people are natural targets for sociopaths - protect yourself
Dr Jane and Tim McGregor
Addiction Today
"The
empathy trap: therapists and counselors almost by definition are
empathic, to facilitate clients' recovery - but this quality can mean
those carers are targets for sociopaths, aided by what Dr Jane & Tim
McGregor call "apaths". The first UK article on this cruel sport shows
how to identify and thus avoid it.
People targeted by a sociopath often respond with self-deprecating
comments like "I was stupid", "what was I thinking" of "I should've
listened to my gut instinct". But being involved with a sociopath is
like being brainwashed. The sociopath's superficial charm is usually the
means by which s/he conditions people.
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Empathy Trap: Breaking Free From Psychopaths and Sociopaths
This week, we're going to be talking with Tim McGregor, co-author with
Dr Jane McGregor of The Empathy Trap: Understanding Antisocial
Personalities. Tim is a health practitioner with more than 20 years'
experience in addiction and sociopathy and Jane is an author and
lecturer at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham,
UK.
The McGregors prefer the term 'sociopath' over 'psychopath', although
their recently published book discusses essentially the same condition,
explaining how predators operate, why they're often difficult to spot,
and the importance of recognising pathological behaviour for what it is.
The Empathy Trap also challenges antisocial behaviour in everyday life
and calls for more empathy among normal people, something that can help
victims cope with the aftermath of destructive relationships by
re-establishing healthy boundaries.
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