In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath.
Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
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Imagine someone at your workplace with the below 'psychopathic traits' as listed in the book: 1. Superficial charm 2. Grandiose sense of self-worth 3. Pathological lying 4. Manipulative 5. Lack of remorse or guilt 6. Lack of empathy 7. Failure to accept res...
评分Imagine someone at your workplace with the below 'psychopathic traits' as listed in the book: 1. Superficial charm 2. Grandiose sense of self-worth 3. Pathological lying 4. Manipulative 5. Lack of remorse or guilt 6. Lack of empathy 7. Failure to accept res...
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iBook。作者越是用这样吊诡弄巧的手法，我越是不喜欢。是讲了一段精彩的故事，作为non-fiction的观赏度很高。
评分今天一口气看了200多页，实在是停不下来，非常、非常精彩。作为娱乐消遣及psycho常识入门可以打满分。Jon Ronson的文风幽默独特、写作技巧娴熟，看完书不禁成了他的粉丝。但是毕竟他只是记者不是精神专家，所以被不少专业人士狂喷~
评分Pop Psy
评分有点意思。
评分前半部分还能够着重悬念以及集中在psychopath上，后半部分就猎奇居多了，以放大madness来吸引眼球。虽然有提到了child bipolar 和 autism 的 overdiagnose 的问题，但也只是触及表面而已。
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