Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-05-21
Books mentioned on Why Do Psychopaths Exist? - Mark Freestone - #476
Mark Freestone is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, an author and an expert in psychopathology. There's a modern fascination with psychopaths.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Mask of Sanity
Discussed“and this this debate actually goes back a long way to the 1940s and 50s when herv collectly first published his book on the mask of sanity how to identify a psychopath”
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We need to talk about Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is a dark psychological novel structured as a series of letters from a mother grappling with her complicity and feelings of dread following her son's horrific school massacre.
Discussed“and when you read books like we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver or you see people who are just bad to the bone on tv like patrick bateman or hannibal lecter those are what was traditionally thought of as being a psychopath”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Making a Psychopath
“um i would say you know google me i've got a university webpage and you can also find my book making a psychopath published by penguin in the uk and macmillan and the usa it's a short read it's it's not intended to be very heavily academic or anything like that and some of the characters i've talked about today”