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179 reviews for:
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
James Fallon
3.26 AVERAGE
179 reviews for:
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
James Fallon
3.26 AVERAGE
The science in this book is absolutely fascinating and I really enjoyed reading and learning about the science behind psychopathy - however, the authors narcissism and his own psychopath tendencies made me hate reading the parts where he talked about himself and his behaviors (shout out to his wife idk how she does it)
Oh man oh man. I saved up for this book and I did a bunch of TED talk watching and thought I knew everything about it! What I didn't know was the sciencey brain-y stuff, which this book is comprehensively full of. ... Which unfortunately was it's undoing for me. I needed narrative not science, but while reading it I thought of three amazing friends who will LOVE it so it's off to a new home tomorrow!!
Mostly narcissistic biography with just a sprinkling of actual neuroscience
This was a disappointment. The first few chapters of the book mainly focussed on the science of the brain. It was a crash course on all the different areas of the brain and what they’re responsible for. It wasn’t particularly clear why the reader needed this much detail on brain function, and even though there was an attempt to make it simple, it was still fairly dense. The bits where Falllon talks about himself were much more interesting, and through the select situations he decides to share with us, the reader can certainly see why he may be a psychopath, although most of this self reflection seemed shallow and unresolved. I wish there was a more academic exploration of psychopathy, rather than just general statements. The last chapter on why we need psychopaths felt self serving.
This book is a cross between scientific "info for the layperson" and personal memoir. It's interesting, engaging, and slightly disturbing. The disturbing part was unexpected - given the title I expected to finish up the book fretting that I myself was a psychopath. That was not the case; Fallon does a good job of making the journey a personal one.
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(Four stars = read again/more)
Read the full review here: http://raereads.com
(Four stars = read again/more)
informative
reflective
The 1 star reviews for this dude being an ass is wild
I don't usually rate something a one unless it was so bad that I did not finish it, however I did finish this one. From what I read in the summary I assumed that this would be how I found out I was a psychopath and how I feel(?) about it. This book was a rambling scientific explanation of neurobiology that ranged from way to complex to ridiculously simplified. The author also was in a yoyo of I am proud I am a jerk psychopath and I don't really care how or if I hurt somebody to I am not really a psychopath because I don't hurt people to cruel and I am not violent.
I loved this book.
My only complaint: I appreciated that the author tried to dumb down the science for all of us laypeople, but at times he didn't dumb it down quite enough :)
My only complaint: I appreciated that the author tried to dumb down the science for all of us laypeople, but at times he didn't dumb it down quite enough :)