The Psychopath Test, By Jon Ronson

Everyone in the world has something that makes them unique, it explains to a certain extent their responses and behavior. Personality is the component that makes people different but traits are what make up ones personality. In “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson it focuses on how can you tell whose a psychopath, what certain traits or behaviors should you look for to determine a psychopath? It goes into detail in the book of a certain test that is used by a lot of psychologists to see if a person fits this category called the Hare psychopathy checklist developed by Bob Hare a researcher in criminal psychology. Being a psychopath is a label that seems to be easily given in the book and real life but wrongfully used in cases. To identify someone …show more content…
One treatment that was adapted to treat psychopaths was Elliot Barker’s treatment of drugged, naked, group therapy sessions with criminal psychopaths for 11 day periods in 1968. He integrated the naked psychotherapy sessions of Paul Bindrim and R.D Liang and D.G Cooper’s treatment for schizophrenics called “Mary Barne’s shit room”. Mary Barne’s shit room in overview was to treatment for a female schizophrenic who was living in a enclosed room. She constantly smeared her own feces hence the title, the hope was she would return to a infantile state where she would grow up again normal and cured. Barker’s treatment for psychopaths consisted of large amounts of LSD and naked group therapy sessions in an enclosed room with no stimulation,where the psychopaths helped each other rather then a trained professional. The treatment Barker used was not effective to “cure” psychopaths. Many treatments have been used to help cure psychopaths and many will be formed. Theres no magic pill to change a psychopath and make them “sane” people in society, so yes for the time being they are stuck being the way they