Domestic Violence Awareness

WINFIELD, W.Va. -- A Hurricane man arrested last year for his conduct at his sons midget football practice was removed from a high school basketball game last month for directing a racial slur toward Winfields chief of police, a Putnam County prosecuto...  

by Kathy Krajco On their way through life, narcissists leave a trail of trashed good names in their wake. This is a serious problem in the workplace, for narcissists often destroy the careers of their betters. Narcissistic managers and administrators often are serial bullies, who destroy the career and credibility of anyone who doesn't participate in a lynching and therefore is a threat to blow the whistle. The narcissist is a slanderer partly...  

PORTLAND, Ore. - Advocates for domestic-violence victims say a restraining order by itself can't stop an abusive partner bent on doing harm, but it can be a deterrent."It puts people on notice, and that function is inherently valuable," said Circuit Judge Maureen McKnight, who hears applications for restraining orders in Multnomah County.Seven women in the Portland area and [...]  

Psychopath. We hear the word and images of Bernardo, Manson, Peterson, BTK and Dahmer pop into our heads; no doubt Ted Bundy too. But they're the bottom of the barrel - most of the two million psychopaths in North America aren't murderers. They're our friends, lovers and co-workers. They're outgoing and persuasive, dazzling you with charm and flattery. Often you aren't even aware they've taken you for a ride - until it's too late.Psychopaths...  

by Nancy McWilliams, page 166"Finally, there is a very close connection between psychopathic and narcissistic conditions. Both character types reflect a subjectively empty internal world and a dependence on external events to provide self-esteem. Some theorists (Kernberg, 1975; Meloy, 1988) put psychopathy and narcissism on one dimension, characterized overall as narcissistic; the psychopath is considered as on the pathological end of the...  

DOWNLOADS: (117) PLAYS: (600) Bill O'Reilly is such a narcissist that he didn't bother discussing President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech...  

The Onion has a satirical piece on how a funny but fictional study has found high numbers of psychopaths among the nation's children who have "little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures". Mateo added that even when subjects were directly confronted with the consequences of their inexplicable behavior, they had little or no capacity for expressing guilt, other than insincere utterances of "sorry" that...  

This is worse than we ever imagined! According to his ex-fiancee, Erin Muller, Michael Lohan has physically assaulted her at least 12 times in the last two years! Muller filed court documents accusing him of harassment on the following occasions: Dec. 9, 2007 - Michael "slapped Erin in the face twice because Erin accused him [...]  

The excerpts from this perfectly describe Yid with Lid… and maybe your Narcissist or Sociopath.  It’s the part of them that only we, their victims, know.  Their coworkers, friends and probably even family are kept from seeing this dark, hidden side of them. Once they are done using us, we are smeared to embarrass us into [...]  

"Why Me?"by Kathy KrajcoLike all predators, narcissists target the vulnerable.Many things can make a person vulnerable. Being smaller than the narcissist. Having less power in the company. Having dangerous enemies. Having a bad reputation. Being defenseless in any way. Being gentle. Being too moral to get as down-and-dirty as the narcissist does. Loving the narcisist makes you very vulnerable. Being the narcissist's benefactor also makes you...  

Tonight’s Blog Talk Radio Show Call-in Number: (646) 649-0116 Upcoming Show: 11/11/2009 9:00 PM CST Show Name: Why a Narcissist Enters into a Relationship http://tobtr.com/s/777683 or call (646) 649-0116 Lisa E. Scott, author of “It’s All About Him” will continue her discussion with book/messageboard readers on how to avoid or recover from painful relationships with narcissists. In this week’s episode, Lisa [...]  

A woman labelled a "predatory paedophile" by police has been given an indeterminate prison sentence after she admitted sexually abusing children. Carol Clarke, 46, assaulted children she followed into toilets in Grimsby and other places in Lincolnshire. Grimsby Crown Court heard that Clarke, of Cromwell Road, Grimsby, had admitted abusing children, aged between four and seven, over 30 years.  

IT'S OFFICIAL: NET ABUSERS ARE PATHOLOGICALBy Evan Schuman, TechWire Another yardstick of success will be achieved by the Internet community: It will be awarded its first official mental health disorder.The newly identified disorder will be dubbed Pathological Internet Use (PIU) and will be christened during the presentation of a major medical paper at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Chicago.The term is being...  

Ten Reasons to Stay the SameFrom "Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" by Lundy Bancroft.To answer the question "Why Does He Do That?" we have to examine the foundation on which abusive behaviors are based. On the first level are the abuser's attitudes, beliefs and habits-- the thinking that drives his behavior day in and day out, which we have been looking at. On the second level is the learning process by...  

Law Hum Behav. 2009 Apr 24.Emotional Intelligence: Painting Different Paths for Low-Anxious and High-Anxious Psychopathic Variants.Vidal S, Skeem J, Camp J.Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.Psychopathic individuals may be disaggregated into low-anxious (emotionally stable "primary psychopaths") and high-anxious (emotionally disturbed "secondary psychopaths") variants that may differ in their capacity for adaptive behavior. In turn...