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This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it. As he searches for the answer, Jon soon finds himself, unexpectedly, on an utterly compelling and often unbelievable adventure into the world of madness. Jon meets a Broadmoor inmate who swears he faked a mental disorder to get a lighter sentence but is now stuck there, with nobody believing he's sane. He meets some of the people who catalogue mental illness, and those who vehemently oppose them. He meets the influential psychologist who developed the industry standard Psychopath Test and who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths. Jon learns from him how to ferret out these high-flying psychopaths and, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, heads into the corridors of power...Combining Jon's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, "The Psychopath Test" is a deeply honest book unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges.

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3 June 2011
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There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
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‘Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.’
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Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Psychopath Test, Lost at Sea, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists. His acclaimed podcasts include Things Fell Apart and The Butterfly Effect, and he co-wrote the screenplays for the movies Okja and Frank. He lives in New York.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 3 June 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0330492268
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0330492263
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 424 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.3 x 2.6 x 22.4 cm

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Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie, Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, The Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists. His first fictional screenplay, Frank, co-written with Peter Straughan, starred Michael Fassbender. He lives in London and New York City.

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Unputdownable! A gem of a book. Clever, thoughtful, well researched, funny. I will now go on and read another of his books. A delight to find such an erudite author.

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A frisky romp through the mental illness industry in typical Ronson style. Not quite a four star read in some ways but too good humoured to score it any lower.

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Offers a witty yet wobbly journey through the dark side of sanity
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Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test is a wild ride through the world of mental health, but it falls short of being a true page-turner. The book follows Ronson as he stumbles into the realm of psychopathy, learning about a mysterious test that claims to identify these elusive individuals. While Ronson's witty writing style and knack for finding quirky characters keep things entertaining, the narrative sometimes meanders, leaving me wondering where it was all heading. The author's encounters with alleged psychopaths, from CEOs to inmates, are eye-opening, but the book struggles to tie everything together neatly. Ronson raises thought-provoking questions about the nature of sanity and the power of labels yet doesn't always dig deep enough for satisfying answers. Despite its flaws, The Psychopath Test offers a fascinating glimpse into the "madness industry," making you wonder if that charming colleague might just be hiding a darker side. It's a solid read that'll make you chuckle and ponder, even if it doesn't quite hit the bullseye.

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A comprehensive and pretty interesting narration re a series of events resulting in identifying and treating psychopaths in different occasions (if there would be any treatment for the disease, of course :))

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Everyone should read this, even the psychopaths. Written to be informative yet as enjoyable as a good work of fiction but without the fiction (except for a few names).

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"This is a story about madness. It begins with a curious encounter at a Costa Coffee in Bloomsbury, Central London," and from this meeting the crazy journey takes-off for Jon Ronson, and for us. Ronson takes us with him as he tackles some serious topics with just the right mixture of seriousness and "Monty Python-like" British humor . The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson is a real page turner, and extremely well researched. I loved every minute of it. I hated for the adventure to end.

When I read nonfiction, I am always looking for the takeaway! I ask myself, what did I learn from having spent hours reading this book? Well, there are so many takeaways to be found within the pages of The Psychopath Test. From Ronon's encounter with the Scientologists, where we learn their views on psychiatry, to his interviews with Tony (not his real name); an inmate classified as a psychopath at Broadmoor Wellness Centre, a prison for the criminally insane in England, to his travels abroad where the plot thickens, and more and more is revealed about the pharmaceutical industry, psychology, and of course, psychopaths.

Did you know, out of every hundred people, one is a psychopath? Did you know that there is a real psychopath test or checklist called the PCL-R Checklist? The checklist has twenty items to tick-off, but not all necessarily have to apply for one to be a psychopath. Interestingly enough, the checklist is employed by such agencies as the FBI. What type of items are on this test? Well, checkout the first eight:

Item 1: Glibness/Superficial Charm

Item 2: Grandiose sense of self-worth

Item 3: Ned for stimulation/proneness to boredom

Item 4: Pathological lying

Item 5: Conning/manipulative

Item 6: Lack of remorse or guilt

Item 7: Shallow affect

Item 8: Callous/Lack of empathy

Ronson doesn't just present the list, he goes on to share real case studies where the checklist was applied. These were each fascinating reads, in and of themselves, but after reading them I began to think about the folks that have walked through my life, some which I've known well, others who were just on the periphery, and then some others who were walk-ons, important for only a brief amount of time. Two immediately came to mind that scored off the charts on this test. Each individual was practically a twenty out of twenty. You can't help, but be on the "Psychopath Patrol" after finishing this book.

Another one of the many fascinating chapters was entitled "Night of the Living Dead." It was here that the reader learns the history of Sunbeam's demise and the corporate psychopath who brought this company to its knees. Interestingly enough, psychopathic CEOs, as well as, psychopathic politicians are not uncommon. In fact, "a disproportionate number of psychopaths can be found in high places." Which makes them quiet common. According to Robert Hare, PhD, the creator of the PCL-R Checklist, "'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.'" To take it a step further Mr. Hare suggested that, "Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths." Mr. Hare is not alone in these conclusions Martha Stout, a professor at Harvard Medical School and author of The Sociopath Next Door, stated:

"They are everywhere...They are in the crowded restaurant where you have your lunch. They are in your open-plan office. As a group they tend to be more charming than most people...They have no warm emotions of t heir own but will study the rest of us. They're the boss or the coworker who likes to make other people jump just for the pleasure of seeing them jump. They're the spouse who marries to look socially normal but inside the marriage show no love after the initial charm wears off."

After reading The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson you too will be on the "Psychopath Lookout". In case you are unfamiliar with Jon Ronson, he is the author who gave us The Men Who Stare at Goats, and I can't wait to read that one too. Needless to say, Jon Ronson has a new fan.

Final Thoughts for those of you out there who don't plan on reading this one:

"People who are psychopathic prey ruthlessly on others using charm, deceit, violence or other methods that allow them to get what they want. The symptoms of psychopathy include: lack of a conscience or sense of guilt, lack of empathy, egocentricity, pathological lying, repeated violations of social norms, disregard for the law, shallow emotions, and a history of victimizing others."
- Robert Hare, Ph.D
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

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Réflexion intelligente sur la folie
Reviewed in France on 9 April 2013
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Ce texte de réflexion sur la psychopathie ne s'adresse pas à des spécialistes, mais constitue une très intéressante réflexion sur la façon dont la société, les médias, le monde de l'entreprise perçoivent la maladie mentale et la psychopathie, pour tantôt la médicaliser, tantôt en tirer profit. Le récit, qui est un travail documentaire de journaliste, est plein de rebondissements inattendus. Jusqu'aux toutes dernières pages, on se demande où l'auteur va en venir. Ce qui se passe, c'est que l'auteur emmène son lecteur avec lui dans ses déplacements d'enquêteur, et dans ses interrogations et revirements d'auteur: de ce point de vue, le texte est plein de suspens, on ne s'ennuie pas un instant, ce qui est, en soi, une prouesse. On lit ce texte sur la folie comme un roman policier. Et on en ressort avec bien des questions sur la folie, stimulation pour aller plus loin dans sa propre réflexion.

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Pablo Vera Prendes
Intetesting read regarding psychiatry
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Highly recomendable, it's narrated in such a good way that it' hard to put down. It presents intetesting questions regarding psychiatry and mental illness.

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Me encantan los libros segundo mano
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Vino usado pero en buen estado. A tiempo y bien empaquetado. Lo recomiendo, da libros una segunda vida.

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A journey through madness
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Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test is an intriguing exploration of the murky waters of psychopathy and the often blurry lines between sanity
and insanity. Published in 2011, this non-fiction work is part investigative journalism and part psychological study.

Ronson delves into the world of psychopaths after being drawn in by a cryptic puzzle sent to a group of academics. This initial mystery sets him off on a journey that takes him from meeting notorious criminals to interviewing leading psychologists and psychiatrists. His quest is to understand what makes a psychopath and how they can be identified.
The book explores the Bob Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a tool used to identify psychopaths. He interviews several individuals, including corporate leaders and patients, analyzing the characteristics that supposedly mark them as psychopaths. These encounters are both interesting and thought-provoking.

In a nutshell , I would say, Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test is an intriguing and engaging exploration of one of the most fascinating and controversial areas of psychology. Whether you're a psychology enthusiast or just a curious individual, this book is gripping, and you will, I guarantee, zip merrily through it.

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