Though she’s not a psychologist, being Joey Buttafuoco’s ex-wife may make Mary Jo Buttafuoco uniquely qualified to identify sociopaths and according to the woman made famous by being shot in the head by Amy Fisher, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is a card carrier.

“He’s like a white-collar sociopath,” Mary Jo told the Radio Happy Hour, “People trusted their life savings to this man. Obviously, he was a very well-liked, well-beloved man that he could get thousands of people involved with him, without anyone realizing what he was doing.”

“They look OK, they fit right in, they don’t have this wild look in their eyes. So when I heard that – and people were saying the biggest con man, the biggest scam artist, the biggest pyramid scheme – I was out there screaming, ‘That’s a sociopath!’”

Earlier this year, Mary Jo was sued by her ex husband for calling him a sociopath in her book Getting It Through My Thick Skull.

“Isn’t that hysterical?  I couldn’t believe it,” she said of the lawsuit, “I said, ‘Honey, believe me, you defamed your character long before I got to it.’”

The Mary Jo Buttafuoco interview begins at the 43:40 mark

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The Mary Jo Buttafuoco interview begins at the 43:40 mark

This week on Dr. Blogstein’s
Radio Happy Hour:

Mary Jo Buttafuoco had it all until a fateful day in 1992 when she was shot in the head by Amy Fisher on her own front porch in Massapequa, N.Y.

In her new book, “Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know,” she answers the question everyone has been asking: Why did she stand by her husband, Joey Buttafuoco, as he and Fisher continued to make news?

She reveals new private details about her struggles and helps people understand the tell-tale signs of a sociopath. She also offers hope on how to reclaim your life after tragedy.

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The Karen Salmansohn interview begins at the 17:11 mark

Author, talk-show host, columnist, radio and TV personality Karen Salmansohn has been writing advice and mentoring young women for years, encouraging an end to the cycle of less-than-healthy relationship choices that are easy to start, but oh so difficult to break.

Salmansohn’s personal overcoming of difficult relationship traps has become Prince Harming Syndrome a brand new self-help book that mixes Karen’s life experience and the philosophy of Aristotle to create an intimately witty and personal account for women of all ages looking to break their bad habits for good! Karen will teach you how to seek out the 5 essentials for true love NONE OF THEM being what you’d normally think about looking for!

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