A review by livh_c
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: A Journey into the Evil Mind by Christopher Berry-Dee
1.0
It makes so much sense why the rating for this book is so long. He spends a good portion of this book inflating his own ego whilst simultaneously belittling experts of psychopathy (to me purely because they decide not to sit in front of them, kissing their a**** 🙂 lol).Â
But that wasn't even my issue with it. That's totally fine to believe psychologists can't have an objective opinion of psychopathy (especially regarding legal implication) because they don't deal with them directly - in fact I'd be inclined to even agree. However, to actually understand his argumentation here, I'd expect him to justify this. He does not.Â
He also makes a distinction between psychopaths & savages & again makes little to no attempt to justify for individual cases why he has done so.Â
But that wasn't even my issue with it. That's totally fine to believe psychologists can't have an objective opinion of psychopathy (especially regarding legal implication) because they don't deal with them directly - in fact I'd be inclined to even agree. However, to actually understand his argumentation here, I'd expect him to justify this. He does not.Â
He also makes a distinction between psychopaths & savages & again makes little to no attempt to justify for individual cases why he has done so.Â