Overview
- Offers understanding and insight into how to define, establish, and maintain personal safety to minimize risks of negative encounters with psychopaths
- Details causes of psychopathy and the links between crime and psychopathy
- A resource to researchers, clinicians, and other professionals in mental health related and educational disciplines, particularly those in social & personality psychology, clinical psychology, social workers and counselors, and nursing and medicine
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (11 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This brief offers understanding and insight into how to define, establish, and maintain personal safety to minimize risks of negative encounters with psychopaths. The author, through a behavioral science research lens sprinkled with autobiographical anecdotes, details causes of psychopathy, links between crime and psychopathy, and focuses particular attention on strategies and preventative measures that individuals who encounter psychopathic others can employ to assert their own personal mental and physical well-being.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risks of Harm from Psychopathic Individuals
Authors: Robert Henley Woody
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20998-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20997-1Published: 08 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20998-8Published: 18 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 56
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychopathology, Personality and Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology