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A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Riverhead Books
May 2011
On Sale: May 12, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 1594488010
EAN: 9781594488016
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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