Dr Clarke, who has penned two books about workplace psychopaths and will speak at the state government-sponsored Queensland Safety Show in Brisbane next week, today said up to three percent of the Australian population was psychopathic.
“I would say that in every major company there would be at least one,” Dr Clarke said.
“Psychopaths are very comfortable in successful corporations because they are actually rewarded for their behaviour.”
So says a June 14, 2007 report in the Tasmania Mercury.
But beware! John Clarke, expert on psychopaths, should not be confused with John Clark, actor, celebrity divorcee (who then remarried), and connoisseur of certain kinds of psychopaths.
(Thanks to investigator Kristine Danowski for bringing Dr. Clarke to our attention.)