Cold-Blooded Kindness Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer, or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear, and Other Reflections on Helping That Hurts
by Oakley, Barbara, Ph.D; Wilson, David SloanFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-04-26
Publisher(s): Prometheus
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Summary
Are some people predisposed to kindness to the point of being destructive to themselves and others? In this searing exploration of deadly codependency, the author of the best-selling Evil Genes, takes the reader on a spellbinding voyage of discovery.
Table of Contents
| Notes on Methods | p. 11 |
| Dramatis personae | p. 13 |
| Foreword | p. 17 |
| A Killing in Millard County, Utah | p. 21 |
| Mike McGrath's Disturbing Revelation | p. 27 |
| Codependency | p. 28 |
| Blinded Me without Science | p. 30 |
| Mayberry with an Edge | p. 33 |
| Tough Love | p. 39 |
| Mike McGrath's Disturbing Revelation, Continued | p. 43 |
| What's Fair? | p. 45 |
| Battered Woman Syndrome | p. 47 |
| A Compulsion to Care | p. 53 |
| Empathy | p. 56 |
| Learning to Keep Empathy in Check | p. 58 |
| The Dark Side | p. 60 |
| Empathy's Echoes | p. 63 |
| Empathizers versus Systemizers | p. 66 |
| Diseases of Caring | p. 69 |
| Empathic Distress | p. 71 |
| Being Trained to Be Too Caring-Empathic Overarousal in Children | p. 73 |
| Caring Starts Early | p. 77 |
| Epigenetic Changes | p. 78 |
| The Preliminary Hearing Begins | p. 85 |
| Marty Sessions | p. 99 |
| A Detective at Work | p. 111 |
| Cross-Examination by Mr. Slavens-Why the House Was a Wreck | p. 123 |
| Flashback | p. 133 |
| The Sanctity of the Victim | p. 137 |
| Victimology | p. 139 |
| The Sanctity of the Victim | p. 141 |
| Hell on Wheels | p. 147 |
| Mike McGrath Applies Critical Thinking | p. 157 |
| The Paradox of Family Violence | p. 162 |
| A Love Affair with Art, Wooing the Press, and a Convenient Death | p. 165 |
| Why So Different? | p. 181 |
| Shared Genes, Different Personalities | p. 182 |
| Carole at Work | p. 187 |
| Animal Hoarding | p. 194 |
| Allen Lake | p. 199 |
| I'm Right and You're Wrong | p. 203 |
| Certitude and Doing Good | p. 207 |
| Left Side-Right Side | p. 209 |
| A Victim's Supporters | p. 213 |
| The War Room | p. 217 |
| Marty's Secrets | p. 227 |
| Media Maestro | p. 241 |
| Shaping the Brain | p. 243 |
| Preliminary Hearing-The Grand Finale | p. 247 |
| Marty's Good Side | p. 257 |
| How Little We Know about Psychiatric Disorders | p. 267 |
| Leapfrogging Logic | p. 275 |
| Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds-But There Is a Deeper Truth | p. 280 |
| The Deal | p. 283 |
| Codependency, Battered Women, and the Sanctity of the Victim | p. 284 |
| Closure | p. 291 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 311 |
| Notes | p. 315 |
| Photo and Illustration Credits | p. 369 |
| Index | p. 373 |
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