Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

Babiak, Payl & Hare, Robert D.

ISBN 10: 0060837721 / ISBN 13: 9780060837723

Published by Regan Books / Harper Collins, New York, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
• Publisher: Regan Books / Harper Collins, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060837721
• ISBN 13: 9780060837723
• Binding: Hard Back
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology
  • Science
  • Business

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Synopsis

Provides a revealing study of psychopaths in the business world that examines the impact of destructive psychopathic behavior on a work environment, documenting a psychopath's patterns of skilled manipulation, deception, and abuse and providing essential tools to help readers protect themselves and their companies. 50,000 first printing.

About the Authors

Paul Babiak, Ph.D. is a New York-based industrial and organizational psychologist, and president of HRBackOffice, an executive coaching and consulting firm specializing in helping executives deal with possible psychopaths hiding within their organizations. He and his collaborators have conducted some of the most influential original research on corporate psychopaths. His work has been featured in newspapers, business magazines, and documentaries and he has been a guest on many radio and television talk shows. His clients have included executives in business, academia, law enforcement, government, insurance, medicine, marketing, finance and intelligence and he speaks about the corporate psychopath at professional conferences and business meetings. Paul is vice president of the Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation, a non-profit organization providing information and support for victims of psychopathy.

Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., is the author of Without Conscience and the creator of the standard tool for diagnosing psychopathy. He is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, and president of Darkstone Research Group, a forensic research and consulting firm. He has won numerous awards for his research, lectures widely on psychopathy, and consults with law enforcement organizations, including the FBI. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.