Description: 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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ISBN: 1594488010
EAN: 9781594488016
ISBN-10: 1594488010
ISBN-13: 9781594488016
eBay Product ID (ePID): 99673137
Age Range: 18
Lc Classification Number: Hv33.R66 2011
Grade from: Twelfth Grade
Reviews: "Because of Ronson's relentless self-deprecation and goofy,...
Copyright Date: 2011
Target Audience: Trade
Lccn: 2011-003133
Dewey Decimal: 616.89
Dewey Edition: 23
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Book Title: Psychopath Test : a Journey Through the Madness Industry
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Social Scientists & Psychologists, Psychopathology / General, Popular Culture, History
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Item Weight: 14.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Jon Ronson
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
