Fear & loathing

Fear loathing

By Mark Broatch, Catherine Woulfe In Psychology

For a woman who’s attempting to destigmatise the term “sociopath”, ME Thomas does herself and her cause no favours. She compares herself to a shark, a rare white tiger and the heartless Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. She calls herself the flame to a ­society of moths. She claims to be “probably smarter than you, dear reader”, and talks with relish about “ruining” people.

Thomas is a high-functioning sociopath working as a law professor in a southern state of the US. A few years ago, she writes in her memoir Confessions of a Sociopath, she came to New Zealand. She spent a week ...

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