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The strange thing about getting multiple books about psychopathy in from the library is how quickly you get to see the differences in the styles of the books. Having read the M. E. Thomas one a few weeks back, reading a more clinical take was an interesting endeavor.
The hook with this book is how Fallon, while investigating other brain issues for things like Alzheimer's and such, inadvertently learned that his brain scan matched many society would consider to be psychopathic. This brought him full bore into an investigation of psychopathy and prompted a look back in his own life.
The book, I suppose, is the better of the recent ones. His biographical stuff wasn't terribly interesting, the clinical stuff often too clinical and dry for me to get invested in, so what was left were some interesting pieces bridged by a lot of less interesting parts along the way. The ending portion almost redeems it, but not quite, as he largely abandons the likely result in favor of his own original hypothesis.
Honestly, if this is a topic you're interested in, the Jon Rosnon book, The Psychopath Test, is ultimately the best read of the group even if it's less traditionally informative and more pop-sciency.
The hook with this book is how Fallon, while investigating other brain issues for things like Alzheimer's and such, inadvertently learned that his brain scan matched many society would consider to be psychopathic. This brought him full bore into an investigation of psychopathy and prompted a look back in his own life.
The book, I suppose, is the better of the recent ones. His biographical stuff wasn't terribly interesting, the clinical stuff often too clinical and dry for me to get invested in, so what was left were some interesting pieces bridged by a lot of less interesting parts along the way. The ending portion almost redeems it, but not quite, as he largely abandons the likely result in favor of his own original hypothesis.
Honestly, if this is a topic you're interested in, the Jon Rosnon book, The Psychopath Test, is ultimately the best read of the group even if it's less traditionally informative and more pop-sciency.