Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson
Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed...
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Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton BastThe story starts: I was at a friend's house,and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual,which is the manual of mental disorders.It lists every known mental disorder.And it used to be, back in the '50s, a very slim pamphlet.And then it got bigger and bigger and bigger,and now it's 886 pages long.And it lists currently 374 mental disorders.So I was leafing through it,wondering if I had any mental disorders,and it turns out I've got 12.(Laughter)I've got generalized anxiety disorder,which is a given.I've got nightmare disorder,which is categorizedif you have recurrent dreams of being pursued or declared a failure,and all my dreams involve people chasing me down the street...
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Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton BastThe story starts: I was at a friend's house,and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual,which is the manual of mental disorders.It lists every known mental disorder.And it used to be, back in the '50s, a very slim pamphlet.And then it got bigger and bigger and bigger,and now it's 886 pages long.And it lists currently 374 mental disorders.So I was leafing through it,wondering if I had any mental disorders,and it turns out I've got 12.(Laughter)I've got generalized anxiety disorder,which is a given.I've got nightmare disorder,which is categorizedif you have recurrent dreams of being pursued or declared a failure,and all my dreams involve people chasing me down the street...
