Patric Gagne is a writer, former therapist, and advocate for people suffering from sociopathic, psychopathic, and anti-social personality disorders. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Sociopath: A Memoir, which shares her struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on this often-maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

Patric earned her BA at UCLA and then enrolled at the Westwood, CA, campus of the California Graduate Institute (CGI), a graduate school specializing in psychology, marital and family therapy, and psychoanalysis. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from CGI and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Her dissertation — “Followers of Fagin: Secondary Sociopathy and Its Relationship to Anxiety” — explored the relationship between sociopathy and anxiety and became the foundation for her memoir.

Today, she is working to expand the definition of psychopathy to include its status as a spectrum disorder. She serves on the board of PsychopathyIs and is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

Patric lives with her husband, David, and their two children.

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