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

Author:Jon Ronson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Social Scientists & Psychologists, Psychopathology, Sociology, Social Science, Popular Culture., Bisacsh, Psychopaths, History., General, Mental Illness, Biography & Autobiography, Social Psychology, History, Popular Culture, Psychology
ISBN: 9781594488016
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2011-05-12T03:00:00+00:00

The drive from Coxsackie to New York, past Saugerties and New Paltz and Poughkeepsie, was flat and bleak—like an alien planet from an old Star Trek episode—and I suddenly felt incredibly paranoid that Toto might turn against me and ask one of his brothers or uncles to come after me. I felt lashed by anxiety, like the sleet that was lashing the car, and so I spun it off the road and drove over to a Starbucks that happened to be right there.

I pulled out my notes—I’d scribbled them on hotel notepaper with a prison-issue pencil—and read the part where he’d told me he was all alone in the world, that his family and everyone who had ever loved him had now abandoned him.

“Oh well, that’s okay, then,” I thought. The realization that his brothers and uncles had deserted him and were therefore not likely to track me down and retaliate made me feel a lot less anxious.

“I suppose that is a bit Item 8: Callous/Lack of Empathy,” I thought. “But under the circumstances, I don’t care.”

I bought an Americano, jumped back in the car, and carried on driving.

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