The quotes in this chapter are from that account. At the start of a new relationship, be wary of the love-bombing. The psychopath will be the most engaging potential partner you have met in a long ...

Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC ...

Psychopaths have an “insatiable appetite for power and control,” 6 Each person with whom she connects serves her needs in different ways and must validate her outsized sense of self.