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61 " complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder. "
― Jon Ronson , The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
62 " I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you. "
63 " what’s the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them.” He "
64 " The more he told me about himself, the more leverage I had for manipulation,” he told Bob’s researcher. “I just kept fueling the fire; the more fuel I added to the fire, the bigger payoff for me. I was the puppet master pulling the strings.” Eventually "
65 " What happened, Bob explained to us now, although we didn’t need telling, was that Jack Abbott was a psychopath. He couldn’t bear being disrespected. His self-worth was too grandiose for that. He couldn’t control his impulses. “When "
66 " What they find is that there are anomalies in the way these individuals process material that has emotional implications. That there’s this dissociation between the linguistic meaning of words and the emotional connotations. Somehow they don’t put them together. Various parts of the limbic system just don’t light up.” And "
67 " Why is the world so unfair? Why all that savage economic injustice, those brutal wars, the everyday corporate cruelty? The answer: psychopaths. That part of the brain that doesn’t function right. "
68 " It is a frightening and huge thought,” I said, “that the ninety-nine percent of us wandering around down here are having our lives pushed and pulled around by that psychopathic fraction up there.” “It "
69 " Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn’t going to swoop into a stranger’s home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal. "
70 " He blamed psychopaths for the brutal excesses of capitalism itself, that the system at its cruelest was a manifestation of a few people’s anomalous amygdalae. "
71 " the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges. "
72 " Al was referring to the time during the Cuban missile crisis that he left his five-months-pregnant wife home alone with no food or access to money and in desperation she had to call her mother and sister for help. “Oh! "
73 " I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn’t know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do). "
74 " I think he saw his checklist as something pure—innocent as only science can be—but the humans who administered it as masses of weird prejudices and crazy predispositions. When "
75 " He said I really had to be careful. Psychopaths are truly dangerous, he said. And they’re often the people you least expect them to be. “When "
76 " The judge took one look at it and threw it out. He said the honey trap was “deceptive conduct of the grossest kind”; the idea of “a psychological profile being admissible as proof of identity in any circumstances [was] redolent with considerable danger.” And "
77 " after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn’t have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now, "
78 " the suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element. "
79 " the suspect, Colin Stagg, must be the person who introduces every single element. What you may then do is reflect that back. You must never introduce it first. If you do, you’re fulfilling your hopes, you see?” I "
80 " At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress? "