JON RONSON: CHAPTER 7 SUMMARY!

The chapter begins with Ronson having a conversation with his friend, Adam Curtis. Ronson was explaining his visit to Shabuta, Mississippi, and the sculpture collection of predatory animals and his giant oil paintings of himself. Al Dunlap is a characters of interest because he  is hired to fire employees of Sunbeam which eventually leads to the closing of Sunbeam and the demise of  Shubuta. Curtis then goes on a rant about the "madness of journalism". Ronson mulls on Curtis's rant, and decides to do some research. Through research, he meets Charlotte Scott. Charlotte Scott is a relatively young retired show producer. Scoot was the producer of shows where raised on social issues, such as: drugs,incest, adultery, and cross dressing. It was her job to call the people who wanted to be on television and listen to their story. Scoot often felt as if she had to feel removed from the person on the other end of the phone- she was describing the process of dehumanization. People find ways to erase empathy and remorse from their  jobs, so they can perform their jobs better. Scott reveals a producing secret to Ronson. She exposes her methods of weeding out the boring from the mad. Scott would ask people what medications they were on. If they where on Prozac- they were perfect for the show.
I enjoyed this chapter. Mostly because it was nice, short read. I also gain some insight to how TV producers go by creating interesting shows. It was cool to read the job description of Charlotte Scoot, former bookkeeper of Jerry Springer, Trisha, and Jeremy Kyle. I always figured that the people on these shows where on some sort of medication. The interview of Al Dunlap really, didn't shock me. It wasn't as gory as compared with earlier interviews. He's not that "bad" of a psychopath.

Question that can be answered in 10 pages

Because I am interested in Midwifery, I want my paper to be about Midwifery. I don't know what aspect of Midwifery I want to talk about. I feel like there are alot of subjects I can write about concerning midwifery, but its not coming to mind. So, Today I'm going to meet up with a real Mid-wife Nurse. I'm going to ask her billions of questions-she is going to wish I never agreed to meet with her today! I am so excited. If I sit her and continue to write more on this post I'm going to be late for one of the most important meetings of my entire life. (updates on how it went later :)!)

The Psychopath Test- Summary of Chapter 4

Ron sends Bob Hare an email requesting an interview; Hare agrees to meet with Ron but only if he registered for a three-day residential course. During the course, Hare taught Ron and others how to identify psychopaths through his checklist. Hare developed the Hare PCL-R checklist in 1975. With the help of experts he, he catergorized the characteristic and behaviors of psycopaths into an organized list.
Which was this: (pg97-98)
1. Glibness/superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Need for stimulation/proness to boredom
4.Pathological lying
5. Conning/ Manipulative
6.Lack of remorse or guil
7. Shallow affect
8.Callous/lack of empathy
9.Parasitic lifestyle
10. Poor behavioral controls
11.Promiscouous sexual behavior
12. Earlybehavior problems
13.Lack of relistic long-term goals
14. Impulsivity
15. Irresponsibility
16. Failure to accepts responsibility for own actions
17. Many short-term marital relationships
18.Juvenile delinquency
19. Revocation of conditional relase
20. Criminal versatility
The class then precedes to look at Case studies to learn how to identify these charactericstics. The Case studies allows Ron identify closer with psychopaths. Ron then starts his own exploration of identifying psychopaths
Critique: This chapter was very interesting. I was able to learn, along with Ron, more about psychopaths and their behavior. The story Hane told about the girl psychopath was terrifying. I never considered that psychopathic behavior can begin early in life. So it is really nerve wreaking to hear about a second year student of college who gets pleasure out of extreme violence. Who knows? She could turn out to be my roomate. :/

Chapter 3: The Psychopath Test (Summary and Reaction)

In this Chapter, Jon Ronson explores the methods of curing psychopaths. Ronson tells the story through the biogrophy of Elliet Barker who was a budding psychiatrist back in the mid-1960s. Barker wanted to find a cure that avenge psychopath from their suffereings-he started by traveling the world observing other psychitrists and their methods. In Palm Springs, Californaia Barker observed nude psychothearpy seassions ocurring under the lead of psychotherpist Paul Bindrim. Barker later on observed the work of many psychiatrists, including those from turkey, Greece, West Berlin, Japan, Korea,and Hong Kong. Barker returned london, and the Oak Ridge hospital board, impressed by the details of his journey, offered him a job. Here, Barker incoporated into his own work with the work of many psychiatirsts which developed into intense LSD treatment. In 1971 the transformation of the psychopaths that where treated by Barker's method was caught on film. The progress of Barker's methods came to a halt when Gary Maier took over. Barry Boyd, Oakridge's medical director, ordered Maier to lower the his use of LSD in the patients. Unfortunately, the decrease of LSD lead to darastic changes in the progress of  patients. 80% of the psychopaths that were released from Oakridge's Hospital reoffended.
This chapter was really wierd. My mind went from having images of naked people having thearapy to feces being spread on the wall. Just, reading about this made me feel a little "psycho". i don't understand how a psychiatrist can study the problems of psychopaths and not become psycho themselves. The dialogue from psychopaths that Ronson included were dialogue that can be heard in horror films. For example the words of Peter Woodcock,"I regret that children died, but i felt like God. It was the power of GOd over a human being. ..It was the pleasure it gave me. I got very litter pleasure fro anything else in life. But the strangling of children I found a degree  and a sensation of pleasure. And of accomplishment". After I read this chapter my head began to hurt and I took some tylenol. Luckily, I woke up fine the next mourning.

MY FIRST BLOG EVER!

HI, my name is Synclair and this is my first blog.