The objective of Confessions of A Sociopath is to provide an inside look of a sociopaths thoughts, experiences and what the authors life is like. The main points of the book is to show that sociopaths exist among the normal population as productive members of society while trying to blend in or identify with the empaths of the world. The author M. E. Thomas effectively supports the book by using her won experiences as a sociopath. Every thought and experience that is depicted in this book supports the concepts that I learned in this class. The book not only gave me a clear understanding of a sociopath but in in some weird way I could identify with some of the experiences that the author had gone through.
A sociopath is defined as, “A person affected with an antisocial personality disorder” according to The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary (2015). Before reading this book and really researching the disorder, I believed a sociopath to be emotionless a violent person. As it was explained by Hockenbury & Nolan (2015), “Emotion is a complex psychological…show more content… For example, the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion would explain a lot in the case of a person of antisocial personality disorder. According to Exporable.com, “Once the thalamus receives the signal, it relays the information to two structures: the amygdala and the brain cortex.” In sociopaths these two parts of the brain differ from the normal person. A sociopath processes information in a different way than the normal person does. As stated by Thomas (2013), “Our brain structures are different: smaller amygdala (emotional center), poorer connections between the amygdala and the prefontal cortex (decision-making, inter alia) what has been described as “potholes” in our brains, and a longer and thinner corpus callosum separating the hemispheres of our brains. Thomas was right on point with the theories that I learned from our