The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore stalking from social, psychiatric, psychological and behavioral perspectives. New thinking and data are presented on threats, pursuit characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses, offender-victim typologies, cyberstalking, false victimization syndrome, erotomania, stalking and domestic violence, the stalking of public figures, and many other aspects of stalking, as well as...

The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore stalking from social, psychiatric, psychological and behavioral perspectives. New thinking and data are presented on threats, pursuit characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses, offender-victim typologies, cyberstalking, false victimization syndrome, erotomania, stalking and domestic violence, the stalking of public figures, and many other aspects of stalking, as well as...

In this startling and complex investigation, Dr Reid Meloy asks the simple but profound question: why does most violence occur between people who are emotionally involved? He provides answers by applying the insights of attachment theory to detailed case studies of deeply disturbed relationships. Dr Meloy transports the reader to remote locations that lie at the extremes of human experience. At these outposts we are privy to bizarre tales that reveal the violent underpinnings of love relationships. In mapping this uncharted territory we can recognize that in studying the outliers, we learn...

This text presents a study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Research involved nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons, with the authors painting a picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics of these patients.

Appreciation of the beauty and complexity of the human mind when perceiving an ambiguous stimulus led Dr. Hermann Rorschach to develop his scientific method 80 years ago. The contributors to this volume are Rorschach clinicians in practice, and their work integrates the Comprehensive System and psychoanalytic methods. This book is organized into four sectons. Within each of the first three sections - devoted to psychotic, borderline and neurotic disorders respectively - the editors and invited authors have contributed Rorschach case studies which vertically cut a character pathology,...

Forensic psychologist Reid Meloy identifies psychopathology as a deviant development disturbance characterized by inordinate instinctual aggression and the absence of a capacity bond. It is the definitive book on the subject. A Jason Aronson Book

This work covers topics such as the phallic-narcissistic character, treatment, risk management and psychodiagnosis, and the response aroused by the psychopath. Other issues include the antisocial tendency, psychopathy and sadism.

In this investigation, Dr Meloy begins with a question: why does most human violence occur between those who are emotionally involved or, more technically, within an attachment paradigm?