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Cold-Blooded Kindness

by: OAKLEY, BARBARA PHDWILSON, DAVID SLOAN

Cold-Blooded Kindness

by: OAKLEY, BARBARA PHDWILSON, DAVID SLOAN

ISBN 13:
9781616144197
ISBN 10:
161614419X
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 04/26/2011
Publisher: Prometheus Books

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Are some people predisposed to kindness to the point of being destructive to themselves and others? In this searing exploration of deadly codependency, the author of the best-selling Evil Genes, takes the reader on a spellbinding voyage of discovery.

Notes on Methods	p. 11
Dramatis personae	p. 13
Foreword	p. 17
A Killing in Millard County, Utah	p. 21
Mike McGrath's Disturbing Revelation	p. 27
Codependency	p. 28
Blinded Me without Science	p. 30
Mayberry with an Edge	p. 33
Tough Love	p. 39
Mike McGrath's Disturbing Revelation, Continued	p. 43
What's Fair?	p. 45
Battered Woman Syndrome	p. 47
A Compulsion to Care	p. 53
Empathy	p. 56
Learning to Keep Empathy in Check	p. 58
The Dark Side	p. 60
Empathy's Echoes	p. 63
Empathizers versus Systemizers	p. 66
Diseases of Caring	p. 69
Empathic Distress	p. 71
Being Trained to Be Too Caring-Empathic Overarousal in Children	p. 73
Caring Starts Early	p. 77
Epigenetic Changes	p. 78
The Preliminary Hearing Begins	p. 85
Marty Sessions	p. 99
A Detective at Work	p. 111
Cross-Examination by Mr. Slavens-Why the House Was a Wreck	p. 123
Flashback	p. 133
The Sanctity of the Victim	p. 137
Victimology	p. 139
The Sanctity of the Victim	p. 141
Hell on Wheels	p. 147
Mike McGrath Applies Critical Thinking	p. 157
The Paradox of Family Violence	p. 162
A Love Affair with Art, Wooing the Press, and a Convenient Death	p. 165
Why So Different?	p. 181
Shared Genes, Different Personalities	p. 182
Carole at Work	p. 187
Animal Hoarding	p. 194
Allen Lake	p. 199
I'm Right and You're Wrong	p. 203
Certitude and Doing Good	p. 207
Left Side-Right Side	p. 209
A Victim's Supporters	p. 213
The War Room	p. 217
Marty's Secrets	p. 227
Media Maestro	p. 241
Shaping the Brain	p. 243
Preliminary Hearing-The Grand Finale	p. 247
Marty's Good Side	p. 257
How Little We Know about Psychiatric Disorders	p. 267
Leapfrogging Logic	p. 275
Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds-But There Is a Deeper Truth	p. 280
The Deal	p. 283
Codependency, Battered Women, and the Sanctity of the Victim	p. 284
Closure	p. 291
Acknowledgments	p. 311
Notes	p. 315
Photo and Illustration Credits	p. 369
Index	p. 373
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Cold-Blooded Kindness

Cold-Blooded Kindness

9781616144197

161614419X

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