
The Research Balance
‘Could you do a bit of research about psychopaths?’ a client recently asked me.
‘With pleasure.’ I said, rubbing my hands with delighted anticipation.
The book we’re working on is a sordid tale of family fraud involving millions of dollars and a particularly ruthless, potentially psychopathic, family member. And so off I went, starting with Jon Ronson’s wonderful The Psychopath Test to establish some basic character traits.