The Omnipresent Street Assumptions
In a street fight, one should only make three assumptions: The threat faced has trained to fight, so expect the unexpected. The threat faced is likely armed, even if a weapon cannot be seen. The threat likely has friends, so always think multiples, and never become target locked. Here’s a video that clearly demonstrates these [...]
Zeroing in on a Suspect’s Weakness How Profilers Stage an Interrogation
When investigators interrogate a suspect in a crime, they have to pay careful attention to the process. Months or years of work on a case can be lost when just one interrogation is run without forethought and preparation. I’ve conducted a few interrogations; profilers are sometimes called upon to do this. But most often, their [...]
Schizoid Personality disorder
Schizoids are often act as automata (“robots”). They appear cold and stunted, flat, and “zombie”-like. Schizoids are uninterested in social relationships or interactions and have a very limited emotional repertoire. Their affect – the expression of whatever emotions they do possess – is poor and intermittent. Schizoids are loners. They confide only in first-degree relatives [...]
Looking Into the Face of Evil What Profilers Learn by Talking With Killers
After my collapse in December 1983, I was in a coma for a week, suffering from viral encephalitis brought on by the pressures of an enormous caseload. When I came out of it, I was in terrible shape — I couldn’t talk, and the left side of my body was almost entirely paralyzed. I endured [...]
The Secret
It seems that everyone is looking for the secret, or the Holy Grail, of combatives. Many Reality Based Self Protection (RBSP) systems and or martial arts (MA), market their wares on the fact that they, and no one else, posses the secrets needed for survival. To me the “secret” is blatantly obvious; the secret is [...]
Psychosis
Chaotic thinking that is the result of a severely impaired reality test ( the patient cannot tell inner fantasy from outside reality). Some psychotic states are short-lived and transient (microepisodes). These last from a few hours to a few days and are sometimes reactions to stress. Persistent psychoses are a fixture of the patient’s mental [...]
Doctor, Sociopath, Murderer Profiling Britain’s Deadliest Serial Killer
Doctors are supposed to save lives, or at least make them better. But Dr. Harold Shipman wanted more. Rather than the satisfaction he could have derived from extending lives, he craved the power that comes with knowing he was snuffing them out. Shipman is the British physician who was recently found guilty of murdering 15 [...]
Seven Golden Rules of Conscience Choice Violence Avoidance
When you read the paper, watch the news, and surf the self-protection forums, one would think that violence is rampant, and that no matter where you go or what you do in life, the chances of being confronted with violence are always a clear and present danger. Although violence in all of its forms is [...]
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
OCPD; The Obsessive-compulsive are concerned with control, both mental (self) and interpersonal (others) and with its symbolic representations. They are perfectionists and rigidly orderly or organized. According to the DSM, such people lack flexibility, openness and efficiency. Obsessive-Compulsives are preoccupied with lists, rules, rituals, organization, perfection, and details. As a result, they are indecisive and [...]
Interviewing Murderers and Suspects Learning About the Crime and the Killer
In order to understand the artist, you have to look at the artwork. It’s the same thing with killers — you really have to study the crime. You have to look at how it was done and then you can begin to understand why. In the past, authorities were making decisions about sentencing, treatment, parole [...]
