Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: A Journey into the Evil Mind Paperback – June 1, 2017

Good book

I couldn’t understand this book.

I was hoping to learn from the criminal minds but the insufferable author continually states his distaste for America's 2A. Never mind that his homeland (England) is imprisoning people for Facebook posts that the government does not approve. He ends a chapter early in the book (page 50/16% of the book) stating that the US has 327.8 million habitants (as of 2018) and 393 million firearms owned by civilians, "what a damning indictment of a civilized country that boasts of its citizens being free." He's said something of this sort several times already and it's not even a quarter through. The author comes in already as a gun control advocate and this book is just written to fit his preconceived opinion. Don't waste your time and money.

You know it wasn't what i was expecting at all, so i ended up returning it.

The writters appoinions are very sujective. He spends a good portion of the book trying to get you to buy his other books.

Poorly written, author added a lot of useless information, book seems to be disorganized. I am disappointed

I’m shocked that this book was published the way it is. It feels like it didn’t have an editor. The author has a lot of interesting experiences with psychopaths, but he’s a poor writer (lots of his sentences just DID NOT make sense, the grammar was often atrocious, and there were numerous typos) and his disdain for psychology and neuroscience destroys any credibility he might otherwise have. He imposes his own moral views onto stuff and while he does obviously have a decent understanding of how psychopaths think (its interesting reading how he was able to “play” some of them to get information out of them), he doesn’t seem to understand the “why” - and he expresses in the book that he has little interest in understanding it.

This is NOT in any way a "study," nor is it a penetrating "journey into the evil mind." It is a superficial, lurid, poorly written, repetitive sensationalistic little fluff-piece on the level of National Enquirer. Try Fromm's Anatomy of Evil; Dutton's The Wisdom of Psychopaths; or even Thomas's Confessions of a Sociopath.