The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry

The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry

The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry

by Jon Ronson

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101515167
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/12/2011
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 44,198
File size: 758 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Jon Ronson’s works include New York Times bestseller So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Lost at Sea, The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones, and international bestsellers: Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats. Ronson lives in New York.

Table of Contents

1 The Missing Part of the Puzzle Revealed 1

2 The Man Who Faked Madness 33

3 Psychopaths Dream in Black-and-White 65

4 The Psychopath Test 89

5 Toto 119

6 Night of the Living Dead 139

7 The Right Sort of Madness 169

8 The Madness of David Shayler 179

9 Aiming a Bit High 212

10 The Avoidable Death of Rebecca Riley 230

11 Good Luck 253

Notes/Sources/Bibliography/Acknowledgments 273

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"Engrossing.... This book brings droll wit to buoy this fascinating journey through 'the madness business.'" —-Publishers Weekly

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