After many years of religious and secular counseling and coaching, public speaker and author David M Masters experienced his first encounter with a psychopathic predator. Like most of us in the therapeutic sciences, you never know there is such a thing, until you encounter one. Before that, he had been convinced that all mankind was basically good, salvation and the ability to turn one’s life around could be claimed by nearly anyone.
When you are introduced to true psychopathy, you realize that there are some people that we share this planet with that are unredeemable. There is no known cure for psychopathy, and very few practitioners in the therapeutic sciences are trained in dealing with victims who are desperately looking for and in need of assistance in navigating the torrential terrain of dealing with a psychopath.
Early in his Christian counseling career, if someone had approached him and claimed to be entangled with an evil psychopath, Masters would try to calm the client down, assuring him or her that they were experienced an overreaction to being temporarily misaligned with a lost soul, who could be saved and could enjoy the benefits of redemption, even if their experience clearly included wrongdoing, for none of us are any better. Aren’t we all just lost souls trying to make our way through the maze of life?
This face-to-face encounter with a psychopath was a wake-up call. Following a path that included working with law enforcement and the legal system, with professionals who know far too well that psychopathy is both untreatable and uncurable.
Once Maters was able to get a grip on this new paradigm shift, the whole world changed and he felt a sense of deep regret, not having known that he may have been able to better serve victims of psychopaths in the past. Now, he too, realized the truth of the evil that predatory psychopathy was a drain on society, that thank God, is only experienced intimately by a small percentage of our society.
His focus then became to reach out and support victims of psychopaths, wherever they be, and to help to educate, teach, and train others active in the therapeutic sciences in supporting victims who were suffering at the hands of a predatory psychopath.
Out of this How to Deal with a Psychopath, Psychopath Victims, and Psychopath Victims Toolkit, were born, as was a certification for coaches, counselors, consultants, and therapists who could better serve their patients by being more knowledgeable about predatory psychopathy without having to educated by an actual encounter where they, too, may be victimized.
There is hope for victims of psychopaths, especially for those who are able to identify a potential predatory psychopath early on, shortly after exposure, and prior to exploitation or abuse has been suffered to any great extent.
Once identification has been made, the proper steps can be taken to protect the potential victim and limit long-term suffering.
There are also those who have not become aware of psychopathic exposure until too late, after the damage has been done, and the victim is left with little life or resources remaining while the psychopath disappears without a trace and is back onto his or her next victim.
There is hope for these individuals as well, though the road to recovery can be extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring a concerted effort and commitment on the part of the victim to rebound from the psychopathic affair.
Regardless of the level of your exposure to a predatory psychopath, there is hope for you, and you have come to the right place.
And if you are active in the therapeutic sciences and have been looking for a path to offer help to victims of psychopaths, this is the right place for you as well.