Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, Adam Daniels
Sott.netMon, 22 May 2023 00:00 UTC
Psychotherapist, educator, researcher, and author of the books
Women Who Love Psychopaths,
How to Spot a Dangerous Man, and many others, Sandra L. Brown's insights have helped many face - and heal from - the damage inflicted by psychopaths and the personality disordered. Expanding on her work as a therapist and author, Sandra Brown has developed the training for thousands of therapists who now understand, and are better able to treat, cognitive dissonance, PTSD, and the neurocognitive damage to executive brain function that many victims suffer.
Join us this week on MindMatters as we look back at Sandra Brown's influential writings, what she's been working on since the release of her books, and how her views and perspectives since then might affect what she'd focus on if she were writing these books today - more than 18 years later.
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Adam joined the editorial team in 2014 and is a co-host of
MindMatters. His particular interests include philosophy, history, exercise science, and technology. He particularly dislikes Critical Race Theory and people who're so afraid of death that they prevent others from living. He also knows kung fu.
Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's
MindMatters, and is an editor for
Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for
MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Reader Comments
Truthfully I like 'bad girls' [Link] but I know from experience that a long-term relationship with them is impossible.
Oh, upon re-reading - maybe we are typing the same thing.
Of course the bad boys are more exciting, but the psychos I'm pretty sure even the most bad boy loving lady out there is not attracted to them if she has her wit about her.
But Hells-Bells who amongst us males knows the mind of a women?
The answer seems to be in substitution. Once they start to realize that the psychopath is an actor, and also realize that they are obsessed with having power over relationships, they have to learn to develop a substitute skill set that allows them to create a healthy sort of experience of effectiveness within a productive social context rather than by continuing to pursue power in this way.
Though I assume this therapy she is training is successful, or she wouldn't be teaching it, what are the results?
Has Sandra had experience treating men who were agreeable and victims of psychopaths?
I would recommend she edit and republish the "dangerous man" book, because the title sells, but include your further research or if that is used just edit it. The point is to reach people, the more the better.
Unfortunately, people are blind to evil generally, and only encountering it does one learn about it. Deception, lack of empathy, slander and manipulation for me are the keys, and of course it is a bell curve so there are degrees.
Do these also cause the cognitive dissonance that Sandra speaks about. In other words, the more trauma narratives being recounted EVERY day, does that reduce the people's ability to think critically and make decisions because of the cognitive dissonance storm it creates?
Is there anyone that has done that research?
As for research on this, well, it's not exactly likely to get funded and pursued, though one can see the effects if one knows what to look for and pays attention to unfolding events. Psychopathic rule is crazy making for the population, and we have plenty of evidence suggesting that Western societies are in fact going slowly mad.
[Link] Quote that maybe is talking about dealing with cognitive dissonance. "For victims of collective trauma meaning is established by: (a) passing down culturally-derived teachings and traditions about threat that promote group preservation; (b) these traditions of threat amplify existential concerns and increase the motivation to embed the trauma into a symbolic system of meaning; (c) trauma fosters the sense of a collective self that is transgenerational thereby promoting a sense of meaning and mitigating existential threat; (d) the sense of an historic collective self also increases group cohesion and group identification that function to create meaning and alleviate existential concerns; (e) the profound sense of meaning that is borne out of collective trauma perpetuates the memory of the trauma and the reluctance to close the door on the past; (f) Over time collective trauma becomes the epicenter of group identity, and the lens through which group members understand their social environment."
SOTT Focus:Limbic Warfare and Martha Stout's "Paranoia Switch"
Martha Stout's newest book, The Paranoia Switch, is a welcome addition to the new and growing science of ponerology: the study of the root causes and genesis of evil, on both the social and...The problem with academic research and academics in general is many of them are in bed with the money. One recent example is Dr. Charles Lieber and his under the table relationship to the Wuhan lab. Note, he was arrested, but he was released after 2 days. He made his payment to society, right?
In other words, is Stout giving some truth and some half-truth? One note in briefly researching, other researchers used her premise to attack Trump as the trauma-fear monger, promoting American tribalism and disconnecting from international relationships.
Harrison has been studying ponerology for a long time, before 2007. Quote: " While a population is busy infighting over gun control, abortion, religion, etc., the deviants in office can escape notice. If the people were aware of the manipulations being used on them by their leaders, such manipulations would prove ineffective ."
There is nothing tricky or new about any of this - what is the fuss?
Let the ladies choose who they want to mate with and let the fellas do what the ladies desire I reckon.
Either that or lets let it turn into a discussion about the mindset of a women - and if that is the discussion at hand - count me out.
It is a mystery....still, evidence is evidence and Hillary truly is criminal - just like billy bad ass is.
Some things are obvious.
I hope the daughter figures things out, but which "girl" were you referring to in the 2nd part of the paragraph - the first one or the second?
That is a fair question if you read it close so can you provide the answer Shangri ?
Or is it that there is a boy in the story?
Seems there is - so the boy blamed the mother?
Is that the story you got to tell - if you want my humble opinion - I think it really is boring.
Reason being to keep it simple women needs man and vice-versa.
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really....why is that ?
That is a "double hug" mind ya - do you want another?
tis what is referred to as a 2-1-2-1-2....double hugged metaphorically.
Trained to spot a dangerous man?
Why is this so hard to spot?
I think the time for men and women to come together in earnest is upon us.
I'm but 8 minutes and 11 seconds into this, and judgement on this topic is not easy.
I appreciate the wisdom the lady is expressing, but seriously, I'm not sure this is worth listening to....but I suspect it is.
I'll listen later I reckon, but I think the whole field of psychology is wrought with bias - seriously - bias.
Still - with respect due, I'll listen the the rest, but to try to understand the mind of a women is not easy to do if one is a man.
Thank you also for the continuing education.
I once went on a date with a woman who worked with vets. This was, of course, many years ago. There was a time long ago, when I dated a lot of women. Most of them really wanted to talk, or try to, on an emotional level, and so this is what we usually did....it was very human.
This particular woman had tremendous difficulty falling asleep at night. I remember talking about that.
All of us have been deeply affected by psychopathic behavior. By war. By the enormity of lying constantly to one another, and not knowing what to do.
Very sad.
ned
And thank you, parzival.
The 'last kiss' will not be the last.
It will be the first.
And it will last.
Forever.
ned
Keep up the great work!!!
Priorities are evidently out of whack and the consequences are only now starting to emerge, but they will emerge with forcefulness and then those who caused all the harm will realize that we are not cattle.
It could be they are though. If not, it could be justice is fixing to get delivered to them one at a time because they are known and harm always has consequence. Always.
"The 'last kiss' will not be the last.
It will be the first.
And it will last.
Forever."
Thanks for that bit of lovely, timeless, poetic wisdom.
Remember these sweet words of Henry Kissinger on this Memorial Day... for these are the sentiments of his treasonous tribe who now wield the might of every Western military. These are the sentiments of Zelensky who will throw every non-chosen Ukrainian male into his meat grinder. These are the sentiments of Lindsay Graham and other traitor puppet politicians who foment unnecessary wars around the world.
Veterans out there must begin to lead. The discipline and training they received during their service are a valuable commodity in the effort to reclaim our Republic. There are tens of millions of us ready to follow their example. God bless the world & God bless the peace makers & my friends @ SOTT! [Link]
IF I'm guessing right then some women may prefer the drama of contending with someone equally capable of manipulation whom they cannot manage, than being with a peacable man who avoids drama that they can.
my earlier comment - the man/father , had a very strict and controlling mother, it was she who wore the trousers. He married himself to more of the same.
I guess from having read her books some time ago, seeing some men for the losers they are was kind of my impression, and is a good lesson. I wouldn't know how to take that deeper.
Why would any man or any women or any women or any man love a psychopath be said psycho be a woman or a man?
Why I query - if you know they are a psycho - what is the appeal?
Maybe - they are trying to stretch the bounds of it.....but one must wonder, at some point, the bounds get stretched to0 to too 2 two far - tu-tu far , then that is the end for everybody - psychos, ladies who love them, and vice versa I reckon. Men who love lady crazies, crazy ladies loving sick men, innocent children, grown ups working hard for a living - everybody for eff sake.
Anyway you have the right answer. We must not serve that which is demonic. Love without knowledge is demonic, as Gurdjieff said. If I may expand, we must first love ourselves. Then, knowledge brings faith, and from faith can come love.