The Psychopath Code

[Pages:287]The Psychopath Code

Cracking The Predators That Stalk Us

The Psychopath Code

Cracking The Predators That Stalk Us

Pieter Hintjens

For my children

The Psychopath Code Copyright ? 2015 Pieter Hintjens Edition 0.7: 2 November 2015 Free to share and remix under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Published by Pieter Hintjens "The Psychopath Code" is a trademark of Pieter Hintjens Cover by westinCovers, . Cover font: Kontrapunkt by Bo Linnemann, Kontrapunkt A/S. Text font: EB Garamond by Georg Duffner. ISBN 978-1514342022

Pieter Hintjens is a writer, programmer and thinker who has spent decades building large software systems and on-line communities, which he describes as "Living Systems". He is an expert in distributed computing, having written over 30 protocols and distributed software systems. He founded the ZeroMQ free software project in 2007.

Other books by the same author: "ZeroMQ - Messaging for Many Applications" (O'Reilly), "Culture and Empire: Digital Revolution" ().

Contents

Preface

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Decoding the Psychopath

11

Disclaimer

11

Break the Glass

12

How this Book Works

15

How this Book Came to Be

16

Embracing the Past

20

Chapter 1. Predator

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The Plundered Pilot

23

Psychopathy as Adaptation

24

The Predator Model

25

Not the Ants You Are Looking For

26

The Forever War

29

The Puzzle of the Big Brain

31

Someone Stole My Lamp. I'm Delighted.

33

How Does it Make You Feel?

34

Conclusions

36

Chapter 2. The Hunt

37

The Party Maker

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The Social Predator

39

Mallory, Alice, and Bob

40

Walk This Way

40

Big Blue Eggs

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Opening Moves

44

Women Hunting Men

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Men Hunting Women

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Power Pyramids

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Women Hunting Women

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Look, I'm Your Father

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Good Listeners Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Conclusions

Chapter 3. Attack and Capture

The Careful Nurse Slow Violence Hiding The Interview Cold Reading and Shotgunning The Imitation Game The Cloak of Invisibility Shape Shifters Constructing the Narrative The Spanish Prisoner Mallory's Books Stockholm Syndrome Isolation Attacks Exploring in Safety The Theory of Trust Motivational Awareness Emotional Awareness Situational Awareness Contextual Awareness Conclusions

Chapter 4. The Feeding

The Doctor's Daughter Just Leave? Motivations That Big, Bad World The Uphill Struggle Follow the Money Techniques of Confusion You Can't Beat Me Let's Go Back

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