2022/110: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry — Jon Ronson

2022/110: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry — Jon Ronson

It is an awful lot harder... to convince people you’re sane than it is to convince them you’re crazy. [p. 43]

A series of comically improbable events lead Ronson, via DSM-IV (the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, from which pretty much anybody can pick a Mental Disorder that fits them), to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a 20-item questionnaire for diagnosing psychopathy. Investigating the 'industry' of psychiatry and its treatment, he encounters Bob Hare (of the eponymous Checklist); ( Read more... )