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Table Tennis with Psychos
Kevin Dutton’s new proposal, THE WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS, has been sold in the UK to Drummond Moir at Heinemann, and is now out on submission in Europe.
The story begins in a high security hospital, where, over a game of table tennis with a high profile serial killer, the author ponders whether pyschopathy is misunderstood: whether, in certain circumstances, it could be exactly what most people need. Leaving aside the myths perpetuated by Hollywood, psychopaths are fearless, confident, charismatic, ruthless and focussed - qualities tailor-made for success in 21st century society.
THE WISDOM OF PSYCHOPATHS is an intellectual rollercoaster ride that combines lightning hot niche science with unprecedented access to secret monasteries, Special Forces training camps, and rarefied psychopath wings of high security hospitals. We meet serial killers, war heroes, financiers, movie stars and attorneys - and discover something amazing. Beneath the hype and the popular characterization, psychopaths have something to teach us.
Dr Dutton, incidentally, lost the game of table tennis, 22-20.
02 Nov 2009