Born To Destroy: Psychopathy in Females: A Life Story

by Winifred Rule, Carl B. Gacono, Ph.D., ABAP

Overview

Born to Destroy is a riveting and nuanced journey through the interpersonal dynamics and life course of the female manifestation of psychopathy and the impact the disorder has within the family. (For more details, go to www.winisbooks.com.) Thank you, Winifred Rule for so courageously sharing these necessary details, connecting them with science and providing this opportunity to more fully understand psychopathy within the context of ordinary living and the years of mental minutiae and calamity that characterize the life course of psychopaths and the people they live, work and interact with. - Jacqueline Helfgott, Ph.D., Professor/Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at Seattle University

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157588984
Publisher:	Winifred Rule
Publication date:	02/06/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Sales rank:	649,516
File size:	715 KB

About the Author

Winifred Rule is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and author of Born to Destroy, the first instructional work on the female psychopath, based on her experiences and lessons learned from living with two psychopaths. Her work has been featured in libraries and curriculums of major universities in the United States and abroad. Most recently, Born to Destroy was accepted into the collections of Columbia University and the Leninka Library, Russia’s Library of Congress, to assist psychiatrists, researchers and lay people to better understand the impact of psychopaths in everyday life.

Editorial Reviews

Born to Destroy by Winifred Rule belongs on the bookshelf of every clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who deals with families and the abusive dynamics that plague them. Masterfully written, it is the true life story of Wini and her psychopathic mother, a woman who abused her daughter from early childhood through her marriage to a loving, decent man, through the birth of grandchildren and beyond. To survive the parentage of a psychopath is a stellar achievement.

Paul Babiak, Ph.D

Winifred Rule's Born to Destroy offers her readers a set of "lab notes," as it were, on the mystery of the psychopathic personality: the who, the how and the why of this condition. From within her own family, Rule describes psychopathic behavior, helping readers to formulate anew a question long debated between religion and behavioral science: Is the demonic necessarily present in the psychopathic?

Rev. Dennis McManus, Ph.D.

Born to Destroy is essential reading for anyone interested in psychopathy, especially how it manifests in females. It provides a 'boots on the ground' perspective of living with psychopathic individuals, as well as the 'bird's eye view' from a person who survived this ordeal, and integrated these experiences with contemporary clinical research on psychopathy.

Craig Neumann

Winifred Rule's Born to Destroy, the story of her psychopathic mother and psychopathic sister, is not only a masterful fusion of intimate memoir, scholarly commentary, and compelling narrative, it is a literary achievement, a tour de force. I don't recall ever reading a personal history related to the psychopathy of others, much less one that so vividly dramatizes the bewilderment and pain of growing up in a family dominated by such perverse egos.

Sidney Offit

This book is a compelling and unforgettable reminder that not all psychopaths are men. The female psychopath walks among us. She may charm like a songbird, but will sting like a scorpion.

J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D.