A review by liriel27
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

4.0

This book does not contain a "Fill out this test to determine if you are a psychopath," so if that's what you're looking for, you will be disappointed. Rather, it is a narrative of one man's explorations of the origins of psychopathy as a diagnosis, the various modern treatments of the same, and the ethical implications of the diagnosis (and, briefly, psychiatry in general). Those looking for objective, hard-science, lots-of-footnotes material will not find it here, but it is a very absorbing read for laypeople.