The Psychopath Test - A journey through the 'Madness' industry
arrived in my life in a charity shop.
The book was there and I was
thinking...where have I seen it before? I knew I saw it somewhere else or I heard about it
but wasn't sure. I ended up buying it and started to read it straight away.
I´m really picky with my reading - I do
love reading but it has to bring me something, provide me some food for thought.
Since I was teenager I had have curiosity
about health, why things are in a certain way, how people behave and why, what can influence behaviours and how the media deals with it.
This book explores the mental health
industry, their professionals and the media. It fascinated me how this
discipline of medicine is so subjective even from the time the professionals
started to list the symptoms of mental illnesses. Although this book explores
the concept of psychopathy through a wide range of cases, it discusses how
people perceive this pathology and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the diagnosis stage.
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