The Psychopath Test A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Jon Ronson

eBook - 2011

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-s...quad 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...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Jon Ronson
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB004XFYWC0
Release Date5/12/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781101515167
Release Date5/12/2011