Customer Reviews
One of the Most Essential Works on Psychopathy - By: Zadius Sky, 14 Mar 2008 
"Snakes in Suits" is one of the most essential works on psychopathy, as well gives the reader the working knowledge of how psychopaths operate in the job industry, especiallly in the corporate workplace. Not only will this book to help the reader to understand how corporate psychopaths operate, but it will give a great deal of insights & helpful tips on how to deal with them & how to protect oneself from them.
I give high praises to Hare for this work on the subject. This book is well written & easy to read as well an eye opening experience. I surly would recommend this book.
Psychopaths are ruthless, emotionless, & consciousness individuals to which they only serve themselves at the expense of others. All words coming out of their mouths would be lies, & if you are appeared as "important" or special to them, it is a safe bet that they are using you.
With this book as a tool & a guide, the readers would be able to identify each pathological individual & understand them more clearly as well to protect oneself from them. I would recommend the readers to study other works that discussed with the certain aspects of the study on the psychopaths, including "Without Conscience" (by Robert Hare), "The Mask of Sanity" (by Hervey Checkley), "The Sociopath Next Door" (by Martha Stout), "In Sheep's Clothing" (by George Simon), & Andrzej Lobaczwski's "Political Ponerology." With these works, one will have a good deal of working knowledge of the phenomenon of psychopaths in our world, in our governments, in our workplace, in our neighborhood, & even in our homes.
A must read for every working person - By: Aeneas, 30 Dec 2007 This books gives a wealth of insight into how to deal with psychopaths in the work place. It clearly outlines how the psychopaths with the use of lying, manipulation & charm often easily manages to get pass the screening interviews for high powered jobs in the workplace. It describes the whole process by which the company & the whole workplace becomes toxic due to the psychopath's influence & it offers the steps & solutions to counteract in order to protect oneself & also for businesses to protect themselves.
Yes a powerful book, that adds to the other book by Robert Hare callled "Without Conscience".
Book to be in the every company's first day Orientation program - By: P. Rao, 04 Nov 2007 we know politics & often we are the victim of them & many go on doing them with a feeling of sin & hopelessness believing that this is the only way one can survive. This book is for alll the 94% of the population who are not psychopaths. This books written in simple language with wonderful examples & It surely gives you the ability to recognise the psychopaths & most importantly how to survive the dangerous psychopaths who always hides in the magic of slogans to bite the next victim.
a study of the pathological personality - By: sleepyvinny, 23 Jul 2007 This is an astounding, essential reference when it comes to understanding & dealing with psychopathological individuals in the workplace. They are FAR more prevalent than most people imagine, & especiallly in positions of power & authority, to which they naturallly gravitate.
As the authors point out, psychopaths rarely take the form of 'Hannibal Lectur', but are much more likely to come in the guise of a slick, fast talking, charismatic high-flyer, who ruthlessly backstabs & manipulates his way into positions of power, for personal gain. Basicallly, they are invisible to anyone who does not have the knowledge of how they operate (ie: the majority), & this is what makes them so lethal.
Psychopathy is not a 'mental illness', it is a personality disorder, & as such, psychopaths are usuallly free of the normal quirks & neuroses of normal people, & instead operate under the blinding inertia of unquestioning self-confidence, without a hint of self-examination or internal doubt - for the psychopath, emotions are simply used as a dramatic tool, in order to evoke pity, guilt, fear or self-doubt in others, for manipulation purposes; & are completely lacking in connection to any deeper meaning.
This book is founded on extensive experience & clinical studies; eg. the Hare Psychopathy Checklists PCL-R; & builds on the established work of Hervey Cleckley ('Mask of Sanity', also recommended). It pulls back the curtain, shows alll the tricks, how they work in practice in the modern corporate environment, & how to defend against them. It describes in some detail the scary surreal reality that the psychopath inhabits, in which conscience & emotion are somehow 'pretend' - how their brains are activated in a completely different pattern (as shown on ECG studies) - everything is a coldblooded 'game' of oneupmanship & self-interest, regardless of consequence.
Thoroughly recommended to anyone in a position of responsibility of assessing people - recruitment or management; & also to anyone studying psychopathy & its implications in the real wold.
