Mary Jo Buttafuoco promotes her book
Mary Jo Buttafuoco, image from The Hollywood Gossip online.
In an interview on “Good Morning America” today, Mary Jo Buttafuoco talked about her book, her ex-husband Joey Buttafuoco’s sociopathic tendencies and, of course, Amy Fisher. I predict it’s the first in a long string of interviews to promote her book.
Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s book, “Getting It Through My Thick Skull,” came out last week. Her purpose in writing the book, she says, is to share the sociopath definition and help others who may be involved with someone who has sociopathic tendencies.
Taking it in the skull
There’s no need to take out an installment loan to buy Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s book; it’s on sale at Amazon.com for $16.47. ABC News reports:
It’s Joey whom Buttafuoco takes aim at in her new book, “Getting It Through My Thick Skull.” The title, she said, came from the way her mother always referred to her “thick skull” when citing her stubborn nature, and a joke she made in the hospital about how her thick skull finally served a good purpose.
The full title of the book is “Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know.” The sociopath she refers to, of course, is her ex-husband. Joey Buttafuoco says “he would prefer to be diagnosed as a sociopath by a doctor, rather than his ex-wife and felt ‘victimized’ by the accusation.”
It’s all out there
Well, unfortunately for Joey, the sentiment that he is a sociopath is already circulating, besides being printed on a book cover that has been promoted on the almighty “Good Morning America.” Mary Jo Buttafuoco says she arrived at her unofficial by looking up the definition of sociopathic tendencies on the internet.
Besides calling out Joey Buttafuoco as a sociopath, Amazon reports that Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s book is about:
- Her addiction to painkillers and her recovery through the Betty Ford Center
- Her overdue decision to leave Joey and start over again on her own in California—3,000 miles from her support system
- Taking control of her physical, spiritual, and emotional health and learning to feel attractive and in control again, despite the scars and trauma of the gunshot
- Her highly controversial and public forgiveness of Amy Fisher
- The new love in her life and how she found the courage to trust, believe, and find hope in a committed relationship once again
Sociopath definition
ABC news reports a somewhat vague definition of sociopath in its coverage of the Mary Jo Buttafuoco interview:
A sociopath is described as someone with an antisocial personality disorder that brings someone into conflict with society and is often amoral and unethical.
Hmm, amoral and unethical? Those are pretty subjective terms. Unfortunately, Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary didn’t do a much better job of explaining it. It says a “sociopath” is “a sociopathic individual” or psychopath. It says sociopathic means:
“of, relating to, or characterized by asocial or antisocial behavior or exhibiting antisocial personality disorder.”
Antisocial seems like a pretty broad term to me as well. Mary Jo Buttafuoco offers a much more specific definition of sociopath in her book, which she says she gleaned from an online article. The article was “The Sociopathic Style: A Checklist.” You can find the checklist and an excerpt from Mary Jo Buttafuoco’s book at abcnews.go.com.
