Proč volíme psychopaty a jak to zastavit – Eddy Bill (2022)

Therapist, lawyer, and mediator Bill Eddy describes how dangerous and highly conflictual personalities (HCP) gain power in governments around the world – and what citizens can do to prevent these individuals from taking office. Democracy is indeed at risk. Too many countries have come under the rule of problematic individuals who have become politicians. Most of them exhibit traits of narcissistic or antisocial personality disorders, or even both. The author, a leading global expert on HCP, explains why these individuals are so seductive and outlines forty of their typical characteristics. He draws on examples from Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Nixon to Trump, Maduro, and Putin, showing how problematic politicians create enemies and manufacture false crises to portray themselves as the only heroic figure capable of dealing with them, despite their own inability to truly solve problems. The author also describes the best ways to identify HCP as charlatans, how to respond to their empty and misleading promises, and how to find genuine leaders. He utilizes his deep psychotherapeutic experience to get to the bottom of a previously unidentified phenomenon that poses a real threat to the world.