Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Slightly Disturbing

(Kindly borrowed from your friend and mine - The Slug)

Taken from a Times interview with Katherine Grainger which uses her criminology PhD as its peg:

"It was while studying for her master's degree that the common characteristics of psychopaths rang some bells.

"I had a diagnostic manual on various mental disorders at a training camp," Grainger said. "I read them out and someone said, 'No way, that's so like our coach.' It became striking that people in sport had a lot of the same traits -obsessive, perfectionist, single-minded, ruthless, aware that their behaviour is affecting other people but not being bothered about it.

I'm not saying our coach will go out and murder us tomorrow, but extreme forms of behaviour are what we are all about."

Hmmmmm-

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