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Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath Paperback – March 1, 2011

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As well-researched as a scholarly work, yet with the immediacy and accessibility of a layman, Puzzling People is a first-person account of the cheats, the charlatans, the liars, the neglectful parents, abusive teachers, two-faced politicians and their Psychopathic Control Grid, tyrannical bosses and colleagues from hell we have all encountered, including the lying lovers who use us then lose us in an instant. Puzzling People takes an in-depth look at how the minds of psychopaths work and why, and focusses on what you can do to survive and thrive and ultimately escape forever. Delivered in a voice that makes it clear that the author lives what he writes, Puzzling People is an invaluable field guide to spotting and avoiding entities so completely lacking in empathy or compassion they may as well be counted as a different species entirely to human beings.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Velluminous Press (March 1, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1905605285
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1905605286
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent, Beautiful Minded Author!
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2012
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This author Thomas Sheridan has written a masterpiece or work of art. He has done what few counselors can do effectively. He has consoled the victims of psychopaths crazy making behavior. He has removed detail by detail a need for revenge by letting one know that it is not possible. He brings the reader to acceptance and understanding of how you were played with or toyed with by a very sick person and lets you know it was not your fault. The person is not human, like the rest of us on the planet. They are similar to specimens. He has compiled many hours of psychotherapy into one book for an all time low price. the female writing the foreword provided the most soothing words i have ever read. I don't know if they have been victimized by psychopaths or not. If they have not, they deserve a nobel peace prize for being able to console and comfort thousands of people victimized by these people who appear human and flatter and lavish compliments on people and then discard them like old shoes. I am much more enlightened as far as the intentions of people and what to look for in people. The author sets the victim on a path to recovery faster than a counselor could do in 1 year of counseling. I am not putting down counselors but they are very inexperienced, don't seek additional training and don't have the level of empathy needed for this type of victimization. Maybe psychiatrist's do but i doubt it. Someone mentioned he does not have the credentials to tackle this subject. I do believe what he has done is called research and that is not plagiarism or stealing someones elses ideas. I have read Dr Hare's information on the psychopath and I must insist that he provides a great deal of information but none of it comforts the victim the way Mr. Thomas Sheridan has so beautifully done. Mr. Hares information can stir a person to read more and more of the information because it is so thought provoking and abnormal for genuine empathic individuals. This can be a negative. Mr Sheridan stirs a person to read the book quickly, but it ends the obsessive thinking and begins to close the door on the psychopath forever. He gives finality or closure and helps the victim retain a huge amount of dignity. Hats off to you and your huge level of empathy and for enduring reading such thought provoking and shocking and unbelievably inhumane information to provide some consolation to those hurt by these people born less than human. Salute!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy-to-digest book on an important subject
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2011
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Upon recently breaking up with what turned out to be a psychopath, I found the YouTube channel of Thomas Sheridan. There, he posts videos pertaining to the subject of psychopaths in our society. I found them to be very useful despite the fact I had already encountered psychopathic people before, my first (to my knowledge) being in a relationship in 1997. When it collapsed, so did I. Why had someone been so cruel, dishonest and manipulative toward me? I didn't deserve to be treated this way. I then went on to learn a lot about psychopaths.

This is the third book I've read on the subject. It is written in a very easily understood language, rather than using too many clinical terms that are encountered in books written by authors who are admittedly in possession of a PhD. I don't believe the lack of a piece of paper makes Puzzling People any less valid. After all, anyone is capable of making a study of people and documenting their findings, and perhaps go on to publish those findings.

I finished the book off in two days. The various key traits of the psychopath are outlined. Often I would laugh upon reading some of the paragraphs. That's because they resonated so strongly with my own experiences. Admittedly I did not learn anything startlingly new from this book, since I have previous experience with psychopaths and have read other books, but this book is useful to read nonetheless. In fact it might be useful to remind oneself now and then of this unfortunate type of person. The psychopath is a shell that houses an entity unlike most of us. It has no conscience. It is devoid of the wide range of emotions the rest of us have. It can do what it wants to you and me and it can sleep at night. It is sub-human.

There is a section on the psychopaths that are at the highest levels of government and corporations, and the methods they employ to keep people in their grip.

The book concludes with ways to regain your life and energy after an encounter with a psychopath, and reminds us to close the door on them and never ever open it again.

The only complaint I have with the book (and you can call me pedantic if you like) is that it really ought to have been proof-read before publishing because it is, unfortunately, littered with typographical errors. At times I found that a little distracting. However, it doesn't take away from the fact that it's a good read on a subject more people really need to be aware of.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good and bad, but mostly good
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2014
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This book is tremendously comforting for anyone who's emerged from a relationship with a psychopath. I've read Robert Hare's and George Simon's books on, respectively, sociopaths and manipulators. They were good books, but this was the first that acknowledged and accurately articulated the emotional devastation from the victim's point of view. It was the book that convinced me that my tormenter is a psychopath. It also helped me free myself from the shame and self-blame, the feeling that I was weak or stupid for getting drawn into the crazy-making web of a parasite. Also, I was accepting of the fact that I needed to go completely no contact. Finally, it put to rest any impulses I had to try to get even with or expose this person. I've realized that it's pointless and probably dangerous to do so. I know I've already been trashed to our mutual acquaintances. I can only hope the people who've seen through this monster won't believe what they've been told. But if they do, I suppose it's their loss.

The only problem I had with the book was that it went off the rails about three-quarters of the way through, turning into a screed against "institutional psychopaths" in popular culture, government, etc. I understand the author's passion, but his points could have been made more succinctly and with more restraint. As they stand now, it sounds like ranting.

Otherwise, great book. Looking forward to reading his other one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Aliens are among us!
Reviewed in Italy on July 22, 2019
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Un libro che tutti dovrebbero leggere!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for today’s world
Reviewed in Germany on November 8, 2018
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Please read this book. Especially if you are a decent and good man/woman. It will explain relationships you had with friends or ex partners where you couldn’t understand what happened. It explains a lot about what and why the world is as it is, with all the negative things happening. There are a lot psychopaths and only if you are aware / awakened to them, will you not only be able to protect yourself against them trying to destroy you, but they will avoid you in the first place!
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5.0 out of 5 stars timely and HUGELY IMPORTANT
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2011
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This book is an easily accessible description of not only the characteristic patterns, modus operandi and havoc wreaked by psychopaths but also an important wake-up call for society at large: psychopaths have gone viral.
It is an invaluable resource:
- for any individual encountering psychopathy (whether in personal, business or public relationships) and wanting to understand what's going on
- for anyone getting out of or recovering from a close encounter
- for the helping professions to get a grasp of a very active, dynamic and detrimental epidemic underlying many of today's calls for help
- as a teaching tool to help raise public awareness and build resistance to the "virus" (strengthening the mental immune system, if you will)
To this survivor of multiple encounters with psychopaths, reading "Puzzling People" provided the last missing piece of the puzzle because the author clearly addresses the entrapment of the victim's spirit/life force - and provides answers to the path of freedom.
This entrapment is the most hideous abuse/crime possible to inflict upon a human soul and it is currently spreading like a wildfire through all levels of society.
Are you infected? Read and find out.
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nickjordan
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic life saving must read for everybody!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2013
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I bought this book after buying and reading Thomas Sheridan's other two books, Defeated Demons: Freedom from Consciousness Parasites in Psychopathic Society, and The Anvil of The Psyche. This was after finding Thomas Sheridan by chance one afternoon on a Youtube Video with Vinny Eastwood.
We all read good books, some very good, some ok, and occasionally we find a book or an author which stands out from the rest, and in some cases even changes your life. These 3 books by Thomas Sheridan have done just that for me. After suffering from a traumatic break up two and a half years ago, and still until reading these books, I thought it was my fault, I was to blame. This deeply troubled me from the summer of 2010, even more so as a family member was involved. When in point of fact I think i was dealing pr had been dealing with a Psychopath woman hell bent on destroying me.
These books have helped me understand exactly what happened, how it happened, why it happened and more importantly how to prevent being a victim of a Psychopath again...I do not use the word Psychopath lightly for describing what I dealt with, only through these books and listening to Thomas Sheridan in interview have I come to understand and feel confident in labelling my past experience as with a psychopath. I firmly know that everybody should read these books and listen to Thomas Sheridan in interview on Youtube and his website [...]. It could very well just save your life and sanity, quite literally.
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Laura Knight-Jadczyk
5.0 out of 5 stars A Dirty Job, But Somebody Had to Do It! Kudos!
Reviewed in France on October 28, 2011
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When I was about a quarter of the way through this book, I wrote to some friends: "Even if there are a few nitpicky things that he could have more clarity on, (IMO), overall, it is so good and accurate that those things aren't worth quibbling over. It's kind of like "psychopathy for dummies" and he's done a darn good job."

At the end of the book, my opinion of it is even higher - it's really THE book that everyone on the planet needs to read. I don't even care about the nitpicky things at the end of the book because the good stuff is so good and so well written that anybody can understand and relate and that's one heck of an accomplishment!

I noticed that a couple of reviewers suggested that the author wrote "emotionally" and I have to differ. His presentation was superb, his examples down-to-earth, and his emotions well in check. The only place where I would say that he was at all emotional was in his presentation of the idea that psychopaths eventually "get theirs." They don't. Most of the ones at the top die in their beds, surrounded by the fruits of their pathology, maintaining their mask to the end. But then, maybe he was just trying to not depress his readers.

I've already bought almost a dozen copies to send to family and friends. If you love somebody, give them this book; it might save their life or, at the very least, their sanity!
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