Psychopath? Oh, sure, Antisocial Personality Disorder, but as with Cumberbatch's Sherlock, I'd put Jane more at the sociopathic end of the spectrum - though with Sherlock, the personality disorder appears more certainly organic in nature. Unless they get around to showing a heck of lot more of Jane's backstory, so we get a clue as to what he was genuinely like with his wife and child, I doubt there will ever be a way to know for sure - there is a distinct possibility that with Jane, the complex of behaviors that appear Antisocial, may well be as much voluntarily put on armor as those three piece suits he wears. One clue is that he has been shown to have something other than a flat affect when he has no one to impress. Yes, I did spend a couple years with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Ed., Revised as light bed-time reading. Why do you ask?
t /psychology nerd
Yeah, right, like that tag ever closes.
I love you, Andi. And I totally agree.
There was an interesting piece on the 'psycho test' on NPR yesterday, you might want to check it out...as, you know...light entertainment.
Jane would flunk the inventory, but he definitely has sociopathy.
linky for the NPR piece.
It was on This American Life and was very amusing.
sumi, I know, right?
It cracked me up that the TAL staff
took the inventory and actually expected to score
. Every client I see thinks they are much worse than they really are. (except for one, but we shall not go there)
They were kind of cute confessing their 'sins'
.
The line is classic, because it is so true. "I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Ooops. white fonting for a fun surprise at the end of the TAL piece.
I love that
the one that stole that test manual never even considered charging for the tests. It was wrongheaded but hardly antisocial.
That totally cracked me up. And I loved, LOVED how they cut the piece so as to completely bury the lead. Nicely done, TAL.
Interesting article, bonny. Thanks.
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That photo makes me happy.
