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Cargando... The psychopath test : a journey through the madness industry (2011 original; edición 2011)por Jon Ronson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. As one of the blurbs on the endpapers (from Salon, I think) rightly observes, Jon Ronson's clever prose moves this book along at a nice clip but also manifestly engages some of the big epistemological issues related to psychiatric diagnoses. This is a fascinating--and even profound--piece of journalism. Liked it. Liked it quite a lot! Not an incredibly in-depth/sciencey look at psychopathy, but very interesting and kept the subject very accessible. It also gave me a little list of other books/journal articles/people in the field to look up, which is wonderful. Oh, added bonus? If you're a person who takes transit, just having this book in your lap, or held up in front of you when reading on the bus, definitely helps ensure that no one sits beside you. :) Pro tip!
Mr. Ronson’s latest book has less ballast. Though he retains his own paranormal ability to locate and befriend wing nuts of every stripe, he has to try a little harder than usual to get “The Psychopath Test” going. Chalk up some of that forced quality to the fact that Mr. Ronson’s BBC Radio 4 program, “Jon Ronson on ...,” is considered comedy. Throw in the fact that most psychopaths aren’t really all that funny. Still, his winning style pervades most of “The Psychopath Test,” as when Mr. Ronson wonders whether he will have psychopaths for readers. According to the second characteristic on the 20-item Hare Psychopathy Checklist (from which this book takes its title), some of them will. “Grandiose sense of self-worth” is one of their notable traits. “What should my message to them be?” he asks one Harvard Medical School psychologist. “Turn yourselves in?” Contenido enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Varios neurólogos reciben un correo tan desconcertante que deciden contactar con el periodista Jon Ronson, autor de este libro, para tratar de resolver los enigmas que se esconden tras lo que acaban de conocer. Se trata de la historia de un preso que supuestamente fingió una enfermedad mental para obtener una sentencia más leve, pero que en la actualidad sigue ingresado en un penal psiquiátrico porque ningún médico cree que esté cuerdo. Jon Ronson decide, entonces, ahondar un poco más en el tema y ver qué hay de cierto y qué de mera especulación en las diagnosis de locura que tan felizmente se prescriben a diario en el mundo entero. Ronson tiene una suerte de epifanía cuando conoce al prestigioso psicólogo, Robert Hare, que desarrolló el test estándar que diagnostica la psicopatía y que está convencido de que muchos ejecutivos importantes y políticos son, de hecho, verdaderos psicópatas. Jon aprende de él a descubrir a estos psicópatas de altos vuelos y, armado con su nueva habilidad de cazador de locos, se adentra por los pasillos del poder. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Ronson visits psychopaths and the psychologists and psychiatrists that have studied them, and meets with Robert Hare, the author of the 20 part test administered to detect psychopathy. He explores the idea that many corporate and governmental leaders are psychopaths by discretely using Hare's test on them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I am well aware that it was written by a journalist and if you're a fan of that style of writing then it is a good book for you for someone that prefers a more factual, textbook layout in my non-fiction this just came across as bunch of thoughts and arguments half thought out and only semi researched. The topics of the thoughts were entertaining enough but just lacking any substance which is an excellent way to make people further research them on their own - which I sense to be the intention - but if you have already got anything past the bare minimum of the topics it's redundant. ( )