The Journey of a Martial Artist
The path of the warrior is a continuous journey, begins in the body through training and then ends in the mind. Many strive to attain belts and ranks as their aim and objective but this focus is so wrong. It is far better to focus on how to get there than to focus on the [...]
How to be safe when you park
The best way to keep yourself and your loved ones safe is to be aware of your surroundings and avoid putting yourself in situations that could be potentially dangerous. The following checklist for parking safety contains a list of things worth keeping in mind when walking to your car in public parking areas: Parking Lot [...]
Multiple Homicides Serial Killers, Spree Slayers and Mass Murderers
People who kill more than once aren’t necessarily serial killers. The teens from Columbine weren’t. They did their killing all at once, which puts them in a different category. People sometimes mistake one kind of killer for another. You’ll see a book written about a serial killer when the person was really a mass murderer. [...]
Dependent Personality Disorder
DPD; A compulsive, pervasive, and excessive craving to be attended to and taken care of that leads to clinging, stifling, and humiliating or submissive behaviors. Codependents are paralyzed by their anxiety of being abandoned. They are indecisive and demand constant and repeated reassurances and advice from a myriad sources, thereby “transferring” responsibility for their decisions [...]
Histrionic Personality Disorder
HPD; Histrionics – mostly women – resemble narcissists in their attention seeking behaviors and marked discomfort when not at the center of attention. Yet, unlike narcissists, histrionics are empathic, sentimental, and overly emotional. They are sexually seductive and provocative and people often find them embarrassing, annoying, or outright repulsive. The histrionic glides from one relationship to the [...]
Why Killers Take Trophies Reliving the Crime Extends the Fantasy
Killers like to take trophies and souvenirs from their victims. Keeping some memento — a lock of hair, jewelry, newspaper clips of the crime — helps prolong, even nourish, their fantasy of the crime. In my research, I’ve seen this happen again and again. Here’s what to look for in an investigation: Is there anything [...]
Imrich Lichtenfeld , Founder of Krav Maga
Imi (Imrich) Sde-Or (Lichtenfeld), founder of Krav-Maga was born in 1910 in Budapest and grew up in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. One of the major influences on Imi’s upbringing was his father, Samuel Lichtenfeld. As backgrounder on Imrich’s father, Samuel Lichtenfeld was part of a traveling circus since the young age of 13. He [...]
Organized vs. Disorganized Slayings How to Describe a Crime Scene
People ask me why I use the terms “Organized,” “Disorganized” and “Mixed” for describing criminals. The practice dates to when I first began research into the mind of the killer. Then, I noticed that the behavioralists were using psychological jargon — “psychopaths,” “antisocial,” “sociopath” — to describe basically the same person. These terms were very [...]
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
NPD; one of a “family” of personality disorders (“Cluster B”), which includes the Borderline PD, Antisocial PD and Histrionic Personality Disorders. It is often diagnosed with other mental health disorders (“co-morbidity”) – or with substance abuse and impulsive and reckless behaviors (“dual diagnosis”). It is estimated that 0.7-1% of the general population suffer from NPD. [...]
So, You Want to Become a Profiler…
As the Bureau will tell you, there is no job specifically referred to as a “profiler.” It’s a term that everyone uses, but it’s not written on anyone’s business card or posted on someone’s office door. Supervisory special agents (SSAs) at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) are assigned to the [...]
