The Psychopath Test
03 June 2011
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.
Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including the influential psychologist who developed the Psychopath Test, from whom Jon...
Details
03 June 2011
320 pages
9781447202509
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
I began The Psychopath Test late at night, tired, dispirited and ill – then found myself laughing like the proverbial loon for page after page.Will Self, Guardian
The belly laughs come thick and fast – my God, he is funny . . . Ronson’s new book is provocative and interesting, and you will, I guarantee, zip merrily through it.Observer