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Sociopathy — It’s More Than We’ve Been Led To Believe.
Patric Gagne’s “Sociopath — A Memoir” plays a phenomenal role in dragging Sociopathy out of the malignant margins.
Sociopathy — It’s More Than We’ve Been Led To Believe.
Patric Gagne’s exceptional book Sociopath: A Memoir has been the most riveting and transformative book I’ve read in some time. And I try to use my time wisely when it comes to reading — suggesting that the competition isn’t pedestrian.
It’s strange to hear someone describe themselves as a sociopath, and in such a conversational tone.
Though this piece was inspired by author, PhD and sociopath, Patric Gagne, it is not a book review. What she has detailed within this work is far too compelling to limit these insights to a convention like that.
Sociopath comprehensively fulfils the memoir criteria, but it’s the challenge that Gagne presents to the readers of her 2024 book that separates this from the “this is what happened to me” orthodoxy of comparable works.
She is asking readers to junk what they have previously believed about sociopaths. And when I pondered that for a minute, I realised that I had a point of view, one I’d have been confident to share, yet I’d never stopped to…
