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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
3 reviews
jelkebooks's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
3.0
This was an incredibly interesting read, and I did quite like the author's narrative voice. It was a really quick, and relatively easy read. I even chuckled a little bit while reading this. However, I felt like the actual book was very disorganised and unfocussed. By the end I still didn't fully understand what Jon Ronson was trying to do with this book.
Content Warnings
Minor: Ableism, Suicide, Murder, and Rape
melodyseestrees's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
1.75
This book can be summed up as "I learned a symptom checklist, went out psycho-spotting, and you can too!" He spends the entire book armchair diagnosing people, especially those for whom he wonders if the psychologists got it wrong (all of which were men). He talks about a few other individuals but they get a few paragraphs in comparison to the men. He interviewed more Scientologists than psychologists and I found that a bit troubling. There is very little to this book besides interviews and biased conclusions.
He trivializes symptoms in the DSM even though it is accepted that these symptoms are to have significant impact on the individual's life.
I was expecting a more nuanced discussion of the failings of the system. Perhaps how it isn't really built for anyone who is not male or Caucasian.
The attempts at humor fell flat and actively detracted whatever points the author was dancing around. The author was also not very focused on his own points and jumped all over the place at times. This felt like directionless info-dump.
If you are familiar with this author you might enjoy this book. I did not.
He trivializes symptoms in the DSM even though it is accepted that these symptoms are to have significant impact on the individual's life.
I was expecting a more nuanced discussion of the failings of the system. Perhaps how it isn't really built for anyone who is not male or Caucasian.
The attempts at humor fell flat and actively detracted whatever points the author was dancing around. The author was also not very focused on his own points and jumped all over the place at times. This felt like directionless info-dump.
If you are familiar with this author you might enjoy this book. I did not.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence, Mental illness, and Violence
Moderate: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide
Minor: Classism, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Eating disorder, Excrement, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Ableism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Rape, Self harm, and Cursing
Many of the content warnings are a sentence or two in passing. Not a whole lot is detailed.jjjreads's review against another edition
tense
fast-paced
1.0
Does contain some interesting information, but the whole book is so alarmist it frequently borders on hysterical. Even if some of the information is technically correct, I think the way it's presented makes it impossible to learn any truth from it. Further, there is no question that this book harms people with mental health issues or disorders.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization
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