WHY ARE PSYCHOPATHS RUINING AND RULING OUR LIVES I am not only a psychiatrist, but I am also the son of a psychiatrist, the husband of a psychiatric social worker and the son-in-law of both a psychologist and a marital and family therapist. I have no off switch. A friend asked me recently, “Do you ever have just a normal conversation?". “You ask such probing questions; can’t you just have a normal conversation where you are not analyzing me?”. It is with this mindset that I decided to write a guide of psychiatry targeted for the general public. And it was with this mindset that I set about the task of writing specifically about what I have learned in my 20 years of experience working for the United States Government at County, State, and Federal levels. Our country is mentally ill, and its illness is now so self-evident that it seems like a cliché to point out that America needs a psychiatrist. You cannot fix a problem until you can understand what it is. This is no less t