Since the original book I was interested in wasn’t available at the library I decided I’d give the recent arrivals section another look. I noticed The Psychopath Test, and figured it might be something different than what I’ve been reading as of late.
I really am glad I gave this one a shot, it was a very interesting book. The author interviews some extremely interesting people on the topic of psychopaths. Including doctors, patients, Scientologists and conspiracy theorists. His writing keeps an open mind, and isn’t too slanted to any one side.
The use of a checklist in determining a psychiatric disorder is covered a great deal, both the pros and cons of such a system. As well as touching on the possibility of psychopaths rising to CEO type positions.
The correlation between the publishing of the DSM-IV and the early 80’s really does make sense why so many more people are being diagnosed with a condition. Whether they’re accurately identified or not is another topic that I’ll leave up to the individuals to decide.
A very interesting read.