Psychology in Seattle.

Hey deserving listeners, today we have a special guest on the podcast, Bill Eddie. He wrote a book called Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths and

how we can stop and I get a lot of emails from publishers and publicists

asking for asking if I would like to interview

their client on the podcast. And I turn most of them down because I don't think they're a good fit but I thought

that Bill would be a good person that I have on the podcast because we get a lot of emails and we occasionally talk about this

topic as to the people we elect into office there's a lot of speculation

about their personality and why they got there, why they do what they do, is it a disorder,

is there something different about these people?

And of course history gets pulled in Hitler, Stalin, all these people start to enter the conversation and well

Bill wrote an entire book about these things so I thought we would have them on the

podcast to clarify at least his viewpoint on it. Thanks for coming on the

podcast bill. Great, thanks to you. I'm glad to be on Kirk. This is the

Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor.

Bill, can you introduce yourself to podcast land? Sure, just real briefly. I started out as a social worker, became a clinical social worker doing child and family counseling in psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics.

Then I decided that I really like... hospitals, outpatient clinics.

Then I decided that I really like conflict resolution

and decided to go to law school

so I could do legal conflict resolution, especially mediation out of court dealing with

legal issues. And when I changed careers, I discovered that a lot of legal cases are driven by people with psychological problems.

And so I recognize the high conflict personalities in all of this and started writing about it, wrote a book,

got on the internet, started getting requests from lawyers, judges, mediators, and therapists to explain these high

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