spot f.x. said it was accurate and the city of london being empty because of tell me about industry and how it's some others in the micro of graduate employment to war in the south china sea in anti capitalist demonstrations well that it was false as you so spot from lawsuits our own experience has been correct let's say that in 2910 and everybody felt the pressure of getting a good job was there and we wanted to finance it and i personally found out very well suited to it very very quickly come around last slightly longer but what it did spark was the 1st script rewrites recite right let's get it which was a really poor attempt to try to capture the role that it was mr clearance experience sitting at room about how much yet the key that unlocked it was writing from the experience of people who were at the very very bottom i think it was this this because it was a slip sure about this world was deals with people at the top. what we thought

interesting i found interesting about that well is that it's never really been to the interest of people who have at least our very intuitive 1st i'm. gradually iraq's capital and while it's my pleasure to congratulate you on this placement and want to stay here starts now we've seen your vouches for you the impression that you make on clients will all be evaluated in 6 months time on risk day that's reduction in force you'll be standing in this room telling all of us why you should be hired permanently to your desk and make he was making films conrad you directed hamlet university so clearly before you went to the city tensions were or were under the plane but you are very conscious of not trying to glamorize as has been done in the ninety's arguably the city of london which actually is in the news for making money out of covert arguably you didn't want to glamorize it and make it seductive to be perfectly honest we didn't have

a very mean mickey sort of out of the outside were very clear that we didn't want to make it so ideologically driven show about what necessarily our kind of take on that world was i think what we've chosen to book on the on screen. you can sort of get away from what me and sort of think about it but i think it's pretty imbedded in the subtext of the shower rather than the text of the show and you know i think . what we were really interested in really as writers was the kind of a lot it's this this place still oh not 6008 search for a certain type of person a certain type of graduate but as mickey says it's really you know it's a soup inside a real world and for a lot of people it's a real black box but we thought if we could sort of crack it open to the president these 5 characters who are all in some way i've a socioeconomically or gender wise or racially that you know that's some variant of as an outsider we thought it out give a kind of a kind of universality to it to people could appreciate people who worked on it some people who don't know what let's get rid of the need to ask you did someone close to you guys have

a compass and i'm sorry if you lost but if you do that here they don't use newbury's well one of those new yeah you know like regional not club security thank you security thank you can we just hope we just do that for you to clean our stuff on your face you see what you've done that is actually arrest a billboard to how go you are i want to get back to intersection out in class in a 2nd but make time and time again and we don't want to give away the plot the i hear optics comes out it seems that your fictional investment bank be a point obsessed by what it looks like to the outside presumably because the reputation of bankers is a bore we call the show a contemporary show that sort of set possibly even the word last 3 years but what we've been trying to do in the 1st season there are bits in a season which people could suggest that maybe slightly sensationalized and that's true and you know there are things that i'm practices that have been the show is probably when we have to get away with in today's lot of climate but what we try to do in this are serious basically dramatize that culture share from what you were

talking about as an individual isn't a collective it's a collective as well you're sort of thinking about the situation think about yourself that your own bottom line and the idea that you know it's pushing a gray young graduates the point where some of that mental have. the house has been strained to their physical health is drained it's no longer acceptable so i feel like. wife still sort of you know it is unlikely to say those things have done surely future upticks but i feel that you know it would be probably a disservice to the industry it is just that only to use them since i think there probably is probably a little bit more than olivia and more from trying to see that space go through more i think they realize they need sort of a comparative reaction changed and clearly conrad the brain drain element of the attraction of financial institutions because they pay more money over the dreams and ambitions of young people what they really want to get out of life clear on the current through the plot i think the truth is i mean the thing that i've

always found interesting about this speaking to our mickey talked about as well and sums of cultural change and right in these institutions are bringing themselves up with the kind of the work climate in 2020 or around you know what attitudes to gender sort of toxicity and bullying all that sort of stuff you know i think you know as much as these institutions change their stillness inherent. contradiction in them which is basically you know we might be you know all of that itch to talk about being a meritocracy and about being more and more of a collectivist saying we're all coming at us and direction but the metrics and evaluation is still very much the same as a bad debate and so you sort of every february january your boss takes you to run the slides number life and you get renumerated based on your comments appealing americal thing so i think i mean that kind of practice well obviously that's been also as a reformer on biases and stop the kind of that's that kind of the kind of the opium effect the bad light of like living in living that paycheck and so i still think really applies to all these people who work in this industry and making the script

is so brilliantly observed you use america terms like work capitalism and spin that reagan fats have thread through at very important to i mean arguably it has been written before the idea of banter in the office and identity politics very important to you that the issue of class was there in addition to race and sex discrimination. i think so i think it's something that just so presidents and presidents in british society and it would be innocent 'd in doing a disservice to the show if we hadn't touched on it and i feel like and it may encourage it was attracted to that question about you know what makes you have sort of what makes someone from the from this a class and whether money can be something that's or stimulates even appreciate it because of where you were born and and also there's a reality of the american attitude to a class for us the british one and whether the american see the possible to give money in your 'd job and your sort of material stuff in the british one which is

basically about where you are schools where you played and your parents why did you read younger if it just for the least amount of applicants the year before. a marginal gain about marginal gangs fighting on the back don't. i play thank you to do you think is and i want this. to just christ margaret thatcher who went east on the ones recently which here you know this carpenter and conrad is it a particularly exciting thing to write and a lot of fun to write given american reviews of talk about news room and other comparisons but he have things as mundane as buying lunch at the office right up to a possible war between the u.s. and the south china sea and not conscious about the human casualties of just conscious of making money out of the war yeah no totally i mean look the cornerstone for the show to me mickey was always. like given the fact that we came from that world we thought we were just it would be to not render it as accurately

as we could only as much that's what this is we could and it wouldn't it wouldn't be true it's the drama of it i mean for us i mean i don't know at this is just personal taste i know a place and it is always my partner is like we find as much drama in the kind of small and moments and the kind of you know whatever it can be as mundane as getting you know going to the coffee room or you know sort of happenstance encounter with someone in an elevator but those that those little small moments the drummer kind of office life is all about and we want it you know there's something inherently true about the watchability of people at work you know that's like good workplace dramas always seem to work and for us as in terms of writers we were always very keen to honor those smaller moments in the drama as well because i mean you know all of our favorite workplace dramas are all about the kind of the breath of the office and what it actually feels like to be in those places and we tried in terms of everything from that there in the sound design to the set the production design mimic you are obsessed with the small details like if you look at people's desks in the show you'll find that you know what they happen to have on a desk is like speaks the but they're biography

a lot so for us that the show kind of lived and died by its leaves us and we were very militant about all of us. and making how does it differ from when you were in the city presumably your colleagues didn't sit around there was a killer talking about power clubs. and coersion and class war. while you're having lunch i mean i would say the very boring part the bank that got the bank the but the dawson hired to work unless they were coming spend their time. sitting in front of a computer doing excel spreadsheets and power presentations as it was getting very very tight in the process interesting read all other other power drinks are available. how late you talk about what mickey was just saying but we do have a chance or the exchequer recent act who used to work in to vestment bank bailed out goldman sachs i mean if someone watches your show and then thinks about the different things recent is doing to help the economy how can we fit in the idea

that he may have worked in the kind of depicted in this show why don't i mean i think i think what the show manages to do and i hope that just as to not trade in stereotypes i think you know a lot of the a lot of the depictions of this well classically on some level get a lot of it right in terms of the level of sort sociopathy and psychopathy at the top of these institutions i mean i'm not going to states that just the states is what tends to beat on screen quite a lot while we were hoping to do is show 5 pretty flawed pretty human pretty vulnerable characters who you know very very young very impressionistic and show on some level how they vary so it's these places that on some levels of these places are very corrosive to the light as i said before mimic you would never really interested in writing something that extracts about why banking never seen anyone for their i.q. want to see before. how many of these have you had 94

new york far here and. where you hear them well it's not a very political answer but. i think mediocrity is too well hidden by parents who hire private tutors. i'm here on my own yeah i mean i shouldn't any of us shouldn't think this is a deep academic tome on the path. that in fact there are there are a lot of of course a lot of drugs involved in the program don't know whether you'd say that was accurate i have only seen 4 of the episodes haven't seen the other 4 do you think the bank has understood while they were taking all the cocaine that the supply of drugs is about supplied the mondavi drug. smuggling let alone foreign policy of the drugs market a wider irony there hanging over the entire plot. was that not really 60 people generally have seen the problems and. so i think there is

a risk an irony about where these things come. and i think the memory. to get off. i did i always had the thought that if you if you took it could be some sort of weird reality experiment where you put all the people who were brutalized by the supply chain of cocaine into the room with the people who happened to be doing the drug but that still be that but i still end up doing it and i would think i probably wouldn't. make it down conrad kay thank you out on the break from bankers to assassins we ask the doctor who inspired killing eve about the making of a psychopath and if those deemed psychopaths by society are really just a product of it all is a more coming up in part 2 of going on the ground. the

impossible see we'll. show you how to ensure the truth to wu lovable was the rule and chose the movie. border that doesn't culturally matter best to put a gun the promotion. you've got to go with us because all of these are going to use the bunkers those told me jamie was in the movie confused with the it seems all senior officers but is the most severe some of what is in your city has come off and used in. the 20th century was thing in or of revolution the great depression and world wars the 21st century old mental illness. those aren't my words that's what surfaced some psychiatry to tell us the only question is should we accept it as a fact. or no. the world is driven by shaped by those.

who dares thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back in part one we heard from to form a bank has turned t.v. writers who talked about psychopaths in the city of london that featured in the new show industry another t.v. show that draws from reality for its psychopath is killing eve and the doctor

behind its lead character villain l. dr mark freestone is catalogued not only psychopathy and i find out it's famously depicted in american psycho but those who have been crushed by a society that arguably created them his new book making a psychopath is out now and he joins me from london mark welcome to going underground so what is a psychopath the great american writer norman mailer equated it psychopathic rebellion against totalitarianism. that's an interesting definition i think such a path research has moved on a lot since since the sixty's and seventy's and now we understand that psychopaths have a problem with the aryan that brain means that they don't really process in motion and it courtney brisk in the same way as other people do they don't realize it motions other people they can't see things like sadness or fear and they can't really make very good judgments about decisions that might be not in their best interest for example so they tend to be if you take very high risks with the

situations that they do in everyday life but that's financially hardest decisions or high risk relationships drug taking things like that and that's because we think of as i said some folks who are in the bright well given you're famous for killing eve isn't it much the in the very book you've written you say media portrayals of psychopathy are often one dimensional when you go to give credit to feed you all a bridge in that the killing 18 for bring me on to try and make a sock of half you is at least superficially illegal because they have the traits that accurately represented in things like the psychopathy checklist the psychopath test we can apply as ability but but. but she also has a more interesting backstory as well. you know she's a child. from a broken family and she's brought in see what a lifestyle it really pushes her to take account of risks that we could pass off very happy to take regardless of the consequences so i thought it was really interesting that they wanted to make such

a plausible character. even though maybe some of it is a little bit. like to call it unicorn in that the now as unicorn features is not someone that you'd be very lucky to meet in your life ever write it you know hopefully not a you go through case studies i might ask you about a couple of them in a 2nd but you do quote robert have one of the founders of psychiatry segment of the talks about psychopaths he said the modern corporation has the characteristics of a psychopathic way particularly interested in the individual psychopaths not the systemic ones because of course famously it's been said that if you're in a psychopathic society it's normal to be a psychopath the outliers or the non psychopaths well that's that's true i think my interest has been i i was a sociologist working with. patients in high secure also those prisons that's how it came in this line of words and i was a supposed quite struck by how bad we were just society and they bring out what you

do with something that's. not necessarily good approach but provide a 1000000 farms within which they have any realistic chance of flourishing because somebody isn't very good at making decisions or raking in france is about other people's emotions and they are very good 'd at deciding what if your level of risk is taking you know financially. risky decisions or deciding what to do with their lives they are counted out in a loose end and we always try to of us like say that you know it's one of the last 5 years that we don't particularly want psychopaths around us in our society so when we think about what are we going to do with these people we need to have a solution for those people who committed crimes provides them with a way back into society but at the same time we know the psychopaths who comes here chris and it comes through the mental health system tend to reoffend even if they've been rehabilitated so whatever it is that we're doing it isn't really working i would never really thought that was good enough i think that we needed to

work a lot harder to try great environments for such a class can actually have a meaningful and productive life and the book is kind of a buy a house just the sort of past quite a quite regular basis i think and what proportion of psychopaths in society maybe maybe around this team making going underground oh he talking about what is a scale of this. so it ensured the general population i think probably about one in every 500 to one in every 1000 people would meet the criteria for a robot has psychopathy checklist which is quite a high power off and most people in the population in the u.k. have no psychopathic traits so they might have maybe one trait and that could include things like being a bit impulsive or taking risks or being dependent on other people being sexually promiscuous so it's not necessarily the case that you have the core features a cycle but if we understand that somebody who's conning a manipulates if you used grandiose who used. remorseless and callous in that the

way that they treat other people so it's not common to meet psychopaths in the general population it's very unlikely that you work with them although we know also from bob has research there are some professions such as stockbroking and chief executive officers that tend to attract psychopaths more than others but it's not likely you'd meet one in your you every day life whereas in prison we know that up to 15 percent of the prison population would be diagnosable it's like a passer very different environment to work and i want to get to that class dimension in a 2nd be you don't think there's a danger then of before you get into the case studies of physiologically understanding psychopathy you mention the brain the make dilla the prefrontal cortex big pharma loves things like that they can give medicine for it you firmly on the side of the physiological element of psychopathy rather than the

class and societal. context of like a psychopathy i'm not i think the evidence for. the problems if only one in a fast people is a psychopath you haven't got a big sample to understand how people with this diagnosis fit into society you don't really understand what the needs of the research evidence is for the way that psychopaths brain. operate is pretty good we have some genetic evidence some genetic research as well that suggests that as a assess it genes that seem to be linked to the way that people develop as children and that some of those children with those genes will then go on to becomes our past but not all of them and i think as a surprise it's more interesting to think about well if there are these all side of us have these these brain wiring just functions what they all in prison want they all criminals and there's a an interesting case of professor jim fallon he's ever such a psychological researcher and united states as part of a study scan his own brain using

a technique called positron emission tomography pet scan and he didn't realize what he done but he actually put its own brain scan into the sokal he was looking at and he realized that this person who scanners are can have very high all of the physiological in the case of psychopathy but he lived to a normal life and this is his brain he did the normal life he had a successful career in research and yet he had all of that is logical characteristics of a psychopath so it's not the case that everyone with these deficiences ends up in prison and some of them can be quite successful. but we do know that yet the majority of psychopaths that we encounter are in prison service is mental health services and usually that they're for quite a serious crime and that effort quite a long time as well i don't be flippant but tell me about your favorite of the 7 cases right i mean they're all quite grim but maybe just briefly tell us about one of them i suppose there's a character in the book called tony who is the closest to

a successful psychopath he had a very successful career but unfortunately career is based almost entirely on the conning and defrauding people around him and he has a very sort of his father was a very successful con man who was never as far as we know trying to get it and he was. he was a sort of international playboy he used the proceeds of his cons to fund its very lavish lifestyle and tony tries to do this but he's simply not quite as good and he also has some quite deviant sexual tastes involving power control and. and sadism and his eventual crime he's cool side abusing a sex worker quite seriously so he sort of you know he plays the lifestyle but then he's cool sad and then the interesting part of this is that the reason he's cool is not because he committed the crime but rather because he pays the sex worker the check from his own personal bank that he sets up with the proceeds of the various other fortune activists is that he's engaged in the past few years and then he's

forgotten to top the bank account up with funds so when sexual he goes to cash that check it bank says and at that point the police are involved and the terrifying thing about that case is that it shows that this is the tip of an iceberg that you know they're all men like tony who regularly commit crimes but not all of them are detected maybe this speaks to the idea of brief press analysis but american psycho that some people a supported by network were sort of social consensus that people. appear outwardly successful there have to be as accountable for their actions as some other of us to and i think tony was just such a fascinating character because he managed to maintain such composure and sort of poise all the way through his incarceration he never really gave away that he was involved in a sort of very unpleasant sleezy crime and us saw himself a superior to the rest of us working with him so he i think personally he remains

one of the most interesting cases in that for me anyway well how ironic then the as side from what you say in the book about if you're eating mental health provision as to his networking in his own community and ultimately community and that sense of belonging you believe could be a therapeutic approach to rehabilitation for psych about absolutely that's a really good point i think that psychopaths we know don't really respond to punishment and it's interesting that the response of most of our societies to a psychopathic who breaks the law is to punish them and punishment quite severely and in the united states whether you score high on the psychopathy checklist or not can be a bear of whether you are considered for capital punishment or whether you are excluded from capital punishment depending on the the jurisdiction you're in so i think if we were if we were able to focus on what is the role of somebody with these traits in society because in i think there's. a good theory of by i think

it's more so if you pass by and merican psychological john lives the way he proposes that there's a gene that these people carry that causes them to be very effective in situations where not taking other people's emotional needs into account is actually quite effective and uses the example of hunter gathering societies will vikings where being a warrior who's remorseless and relentless in your pursuit if you are desires and goals is actually quite helpful but in a modern society but we're all supposed to be networked and part of social groupings around each. that's being a sort of lone wolf who's not accountable and doesn't really think about other people's emotional responses to our actions isn't very valuable and actually gets you labeled as a psychopath and it deviant widow but if we were able to find a way to sort of encouraged psych to pass through a process that rather punishment encouragement to try and get into identifiable pro-social goals and to understand how other people will respond to that more

unappealing social traits that site that sort of couse behaviors with people i think that would be a very productive way forward and there's been some work in creating social microcosms in the prison service and the forensic mental health services the high c. here mental hospitals in the u.k. trying to create the social life because web site or past work with of a psychopath and the staff to try and create a community energy community that allows them to explore more proof pro-social girls than the offending that they've been so used to in their lives so that's promising i'm none of it's got great evidence yet but nothing as far as like a pass go you get does really knock them out respond thank you and making us like about my journey into 7 dangerous minds out now that some of the show will be back on wednesday until they never miss an interview by for driving to our channel on you tube and joining me on the ground would have a few good things ramp in san fran.

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