I am Fishead

Sep 11, 2011

1h 20m

★ 6.5

How psychopaths and antidepressants influence our society

Overview

A provocative snapshot of the world we live in. It is a well-known fact that our society is structured like a pyramid. The very few people at the top create conditions for the majority below. Who are these people? Can we blame them for the problems our society faces today? Guided by the saying “A fish rots from the head” we set out to follow that fishy odor. What we found out is that people at the top are more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of us.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

himself

Robert D. Hare

narrator

Peter Coyote

himself

Paul Babiak

himself

Philip G. Zimbardo

himself

Christopher J. Lane

himself

Gary Greenberg

himself

Charles Barber

himself

Václav Havel

himself

Nicholas A. Christakis

himself

John Perry Barlow

himself

Byron Woollen

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