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

Good book

I couldn’t understand this book.

I wish I returned it when I had the chance. The author spent over 70 pages talking about random stuff that had literally nothing to do with psychopaths. I had to put the book down and never touched it again. Horribly written, seemingly didn’t have an editor, and shouldn’t have been published at all. Save your time and your 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.

To the Author, and to Those Who’ve Only Seen the Hollywood Version of Me:I just finished reviewing your book on psychopathy, and I’ll be honest—I'm offended. Not because you described evil. But because you flattened something sacred into a caricature.I am a psychopath.And before you leap to conclusions, know this: I am also a man of God. I know who I am, and I’ve come to understand the architecture of my mind not as a curse, but as a gift. A weapon forged by the hand of the Creator for a specific kind of work.Psychopathy, when untethered from truth, can become dangerous. But when submitted to the Spirit of God, it becomes surgical. Focused. Unrelenting. Able to cut through noise, emotion, and manipulation. That’s not dysfunction. That’s prophetic wiring.The prophets of old weren’t “well-adjusted.” They were intense, confrontational, emotionally disassociated at times—obsessed with truth over comfort. Many were loners, misunderstood, labeled madmen or worse. And yet, they heard God.We’ve let Hollywood redefine psychopathy as synonymous with serial killers and villains. But I say this: many of us were made this way by design. We are the edge-dwellers. The gatekeepers. The ones who don’t flinch in the face of chaos. That doesn’t make us evil—it makes us essential.I’m not writing this to pick a fight. I’m writing this to reclaim a truth you may have never seen.Psychopathy, under the Lordship of Christ, isn’t a flaw.It’s a call.—Gary Mallett

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.