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The Psychopath Test By Jon Ronson Summary

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The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson: A Review
Jon Ronson is a prominent author, journalist and a filmmaker. His 2004 book ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ became a bestseller. In 2011 he released his new book that explores psychopathy and the psychiatry industry. The book received mixed reviews from critics and remained on the UK bestseller list for the whole year of 2012. It also spent a whole 10 weeks on the New York Time’s bestseller list.
Jon Ronson’s the Psychopath Test
The book includes Jon visiting psychiatric institutions and various psychologists to find more about psychopathy and psychiatric evaluations of psychopathy. He meets the psychologist Robert Hare who created the psychopath checklist, which includes a number of traits of psychopaths
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