On 3:40am on Wednesday I finished reading "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. It was a rather interesting read, he has a really funny writing style, so the book went by and I hadn't even realised.
Safe in the knowledge that I am not a psychopath I could rest easily for one night at least. Throughout the book he interviews a number of interesting doctors, patients, convicted criminals, a hippy, and people with views on psychiatry. He also delved into Scientology's war on psychiatrists and paired up with a Scientologist for some of his investigating, which I thought was brave.
He interviewed a death squad leader, who claimed he just wanted people to like him. It was really disturbing how he thought that the worst kind of person was a thief, and to be accused of being a thief was a huge insult, and this is after his men had been raping and killing their way through Haiti.
I also found myself thinking about the plight of 'Tony', eventually he was released, but his situation was a little unnerving, as I had never really thought about how proving sanity could be a lot more difficult than showing insanity. It is in so many films, where the main character see's the ghost/monster and tells their relatives/friends only to be put in a mental home, resulting in the monster/ghost having to go all the way there to get the job done, and just for the irony, to kill the doctors who didn't believe them. The way the Terminator freaks out the psychiatrist in three consecutive movies, but he still doesn't believe Sarah's story, is one of my favourites.
But it is always something you assume right? Sane before proven Insane? If we all had to prove our sanity.. how would you do that? What is normal?
I always get into books and find myself absorbed till I'm on the last page and wondering where the day(s) went. Papillion was the only one that I didn't finish. I don't know why, I got half way through that book and to the part where he is living in a jungle with a few wives or something, and just stopped reading. Actually I have tried a few times to pick it back up but its like my 'interest' switch is off.
I received "The Lucifer Effect" and "Nudge" as gifts from a friend so I have started on those, I found the writing style in Nudge to be a little boring so I switched to The Lucifer Effect for now, and I will get back to that later.
Might watch T2 now.....
Safe in the knowledge that I am not a psychopath I could rest easily for one night at least. Throughout the book he interviews a number of interesting doctors, patients, convicted criminals, a hippy, and people with views on psychiatry. He also delved into Scientology's war on psychiatrists and paired up with a Scientologist for some of his investigating, which I thought was brave.
He interviewed a death squad leader, who claimed he just wanted people to like him. It was really disturbing how he thought that the worst kind of person was a thief, and to be accused of being a thief was a huge insult, and this is after his men had been raping and killing their way through Haiti.
I also found myself thinking about the plight of 'Tony', eventually he was released, but his situation was a little unnerving, as I had never really thought about how proving sanity could be a lot more difficult than showing insanity. It is in so many films, where the main character see's the ghost/monster and tells their relatives/friends only to be put in a mental home, resulting in the monster/ghost having to go all the way there to get the job done, and just for the irony, to kill the doctors who didn't believe them. The way the Terminator freaks out the psychiatrist in three consecutive movies, but he still doesn't believe Sarah's story, is one of my favourites.
But it is always something you assume right? Sane before proven Insane? If we all had to prove our sanity.. how would you do that? What is normal?
I received "The Lucifer Effect" and "Nudge" as gifts from a friend so I have started on those, I found the writing style in Nudge to be a little boring so I switched to The Lucifer Effect for now, and I will get back to that later.
Might watch T2 now.....
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