The book is just AMAZING: easy reading (almost like a fiction), full of fascinating facts and exciting stories. There's a problem loading this menu right now. By: The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. L. Ron Hubbard had a particular hatred of psychologists. By: His reading style is very monotonous and stunted but the book is fascinating and disturbing. Overall however, i learned a lot about Psychopathy, DSM-4 and psychiatry, without seeming to. I don't often stay with books, but this one really gripped into wanting to read it in one go. Frank is set for release in 2014, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. This should be prescribed reading for medical, psychology, and pharmacy students. Ajay Agrawal, Jon Ronson. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges. Through this powerful capacity for insight and empathy, we can "rewire" crucial connections, create dynamic linkages, and open ourselves to relationships in a new way. Still, this is a minor criticism of an entertaining and illuminating read. Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2017. The piece on childhood bipolar disorder at the end is particularly unnerving. Jon Ronson takes a postmodern approach to his subjects, an underlying skepticism which leads to interesting questions and speculations. A number of times I also often found myself questioning where a story or recounting of events was headed, and what relevance it had to the overall topic. Although this book is full of information about psychopaths, it will leave you even less sure about their nature--if it can even be said that psychopaths have a nature. My first introduction to Joh Ronson was an excerpt from this book on This American Life, which I found intriguing. what to do with psychopaths, the potentially psychopathic nature of our leaders, the reliability of psychiatric checklists, and the potential dangers of diagnosing and medicating children, to name just a few. You won't regret it. Collected here from various sources (including the Guardian and GQ America) are the best of his adventures. Roxane Gay, Narrated by: This book alone would not be sufficient evidence to persuade you one way of another, (both sides are equally covered) but it's a fantastic supplement to generate thought. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. The solution to that riddle was a let down. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. However, for me the style of journalism was ramshackle, felt like a lot of padding and diluted my interest in the subject. Highly recommended! A great listen and all the more so for Jon's own excitable voice reading the text. The book has many more surprises.Ronson is one of those authors who has a distinct speaking voice and it adds another layer to his work to hear him read it. ?s introspective self-doubt and honestly. Perfect. Can say that I've read shorter and more in-depth articles, so quite disappointed with the book. What makes us rational—and why are we so often irrational? Dunlap proceeded to point out that every behavior presented as evidence of being a psychopath could also be interpreted as someone who has a forceful and driven personality who gets things done. Susan Wise Bauer. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of … … Emma Smith-Stevens, How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people plan their lives for a world so different from what we know? I could listen to him talk all day. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Jon Ronson's voice is lovely, so easy to listen to. Ronson is a gifted writer and likeable journalist-nerd-author, and while this book is full of interesting observations on mentla health and humanity, i missed the sense of fun and breadth of subject matter contained in his other books. Ronson has a very unique speaking style and I was absolutely transfixed by it! 'But Hillary is a known Luciferian,' he tried. In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. Avi Goldfarb, Narrated by: Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. It's not available at the moment, (Sept 2011), but I am sure it will be repeated. to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a diagnostic tool that's become a quick and dirty way to label someone a psychopath, to the Rosenhan Experiment, the history of psychology is filled with enough self-reinforcing bumbling and egomania to make one think the Scientologists may have a point.While Ronson's book is a collection of interesting anecdotes and observations, digressing into the overmedication of children, misdiagnoses of autism, and the brutality of capitalist devotion to "shareholder value," between interviews with ex-death squad leaders and allegedly psychopathic CEO Al Dunlap, it's a bit weak in its critique of science, and sheds little light on his subjects.Martha Stout's book The Sociopath Next Door was more illuminating. Roxane Gay, He has an ability to make serious, frightening and sometimes disturbing topics somehow hilarious. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book’s first publication, David Attenborough has revisited Life on Earth, completely updating and adding to the original text, taking account of modern scientific discoveries from around the globe.... By: The book is admittedly a "subtle" critique as the author suggests he is aiming for on page 64 when he describes his desire on at least one topic to plant "doubt into the prose[.]" That said, for my moeny it is one of the less entertaining ones.
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