Summary: A TED talk by Jon Ronson about the psychopath checklist and how mental disorders are catalogued. He begins with the DSM manual and its growing list of disorders, then describes a conversation that led him to interview people in a high-security hospital and to look at how the checklist is applied, ending with a question to the audience about what they would have done. It is not Andy’s own talk.
Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.