The Trick of the Psychopaths Trade: Make us Believe Evil Comes from Others

The article takes the form of an interview between Silvia Cattori and the editor's of Politcal Ponerology, Laura Jadczyk-Knight and Henry Sy. It details and summarizes Ponerology giving the reader a firm grasp of it's basic tenets; an analysis of what happens to groups and ideologies when they succomb to influence from a psychological deviant.

The author had the opportunity to observe the phenomenon up close and personal as he lived through the Nazi and subsequent Communist occupation of Poland - all the while secretly researching the psychology of people who fell to their influence.

Political Ponerology is the culmination of his research, which wouldn't have been possible without help from several other researchers, of them, Lobaczewski is the last remaining alive.

Overall it is an enlightening read and yields an immension wealth of psychological information that makes it possible to get an objective view of what's happening in the United States and by extension, the rest of the planet.