The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry Library Edition

Ronson, Jon

ISBN 10: 1452632251 ISBN 13: 9781452632254

Casa editrice: Tantor Media Inc, 2011

Riassunto

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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Jon Ronson is a bestselling writer and documentary filmmaker whose books include The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. He lives in London.
Jon Ronson is a bestselling writer and documentary filmmaker whose books include The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Tantor Media Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1452632251
• ISBN 13: 9781452632254
• Rilegatura: Audio CD