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Sociopath: a Memoir by Patric Gagne

Sociopath was wild, and I don’t know if I learned so much about this diagnosis as much as I felt as if I was along for the ride on this person‘s crazy life choices. The nailbiting situations that she puts herself in were hard to look away from and her analysis of her own behavior had me questioning the entire narrative. I’ve seen that her PhD credentials are questionable and whatever her diagnosis is, it’s difficult to know if she is really coming from a place of truth. But I guess that’s the paradoxical nature of this kind of memoir… A fascinating read to dissect, but I wouldn’t put a lot of scientific trust into it.