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İçimdeki Psikopat (2000)

by James Fallon(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Yabancı

review 1: Well then. This book is all kinds of interesting, in the sense of the wish that one might live in "interesting" times. Swimming around in the head of a possible psychopath is certainly illuminating, though not always edifying. For all his expertise, I can't take Fallon at face value because he had no business diagnosing himself, and for all his claims of trying to do better and be better, it's clear he could benefit from some professional guidance. He's clearly intelligent and well-versed in his subject matter, but he's also spectacularly clueless about many things. Past events he treats with a blase attitude sent chills up my spine, like his self-professed pyromania and his curling view that his youthful car thefts were harmless pranks.This is a man I have no interest in ... moremeeting in person, and while there may be something to his point about there being some societal benefit to psychopathy, I imagine most of us could happily live without psychopathy.Some of his views also struck me as lacking nuance, perhaps because it's to his benefit. Social conditioning has a lot to do with why we accept some of the behaviors we do. If we were better at talking about mental health issues, maybe we could get away from attitudes like "boys will be boys", as well as writing off offensive behavior as being the nature of humanity. Our discomfort with and lack of support for mental health issues makes it far easier for us to write anti-social behavior off than to tackle the challenge of working to change it.We're at a point where society is becoming more aware of the idea that human behavior is a spectrum, and hopefully that will get us away from our tendency to train boys to be aggressive and girls to be docile as a result of a mistaken belief that gender is destiny, a concept that does great harm to men and women alike.His positing that women choose "bad" boys has more to do with society than anything. For women in war-torn countries, there's logic to it. For women in stable countries, it has more to do with society romanticizing unacceptable behavior. If pop culture were to stop making "bad" boys sexy and girls and women had a better understanding of what constitutes relationship abuse, much of the appeal would disappear. Instead, we teach boys and girls alike to minimize unacceptable behavior.I learned things from this book, but it left me unsettled and dissatisfied. Despite our scientific and technological advancements, we humans clearly have a very long way to go.
review 2: From a scientific standpoint, I found this book to be interesting, though as a whole, it's a bit dry. For me, it stirred a lot of negative feelings, especially since my background is in mental health and I've had the experience of being manipulated by a "prosocial psychopath". The author's manipulation of the reader can be felt through the pages, so much so that I had to take several breaks while reading to disengage from it. A decent read for anyone interested in understanding more about the biological aspects of mental health disorders. less

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