Creating a Client Profile
Data to be collected when creating a Client Profile using the 7 P’s (People, Places, Prejudices, Personality, Personal History, Private Lifestyle, Political Views and Other) Client Name: PPO Name: Date: People a. Family and relatives b. Friends c. Enemies and rivals d. Loves e. Business associates f. Social contacts Places a. Educated b. Previous addresses [...]
Affect
Affect is how we express our innermost feelings and how other people observe and interpret our expressions. Affect is characterized by the type of emotion involved (sadness, happiness, anger, etc.) and by the intensity of its expression. Some people have flat affect: they maintain “poker faces”, monotonous, immobile, apparently unmoved. This is typical of the [...]
Erotomania
Erotomania is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that another person, usually of a higher social status, is in love with him or her. Erotomania is also called de Clérambault’s syndrome, after the French psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), who published a comprehensive review paper on the subject (Les [...]
Sexual Addiction
Sexual addiction Not to be confused with Erotomania or Nymphomania Sexual addiction is a term used to describe the behavior of a person who has an unusually intense sex drive or obsession with sex. [1] Sex addicts are people who, desperately afraid of any truly intimate relationship, repeatedly and compulsively try to connect with others [...]
Adolfo Constanzo “Serial Killer”
Serial Killer. Born Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo in Miami, Florida, on November 1, 1962, to 15-year-old Cuban immigrant Delia Aurora Gonzalez del Valle. Constanzo was the oldest of three children, all of whom had different fathers. At six months old, Gonzalez had her son blessed by a Haitian priest who observed “palo mayombe,” an offshoot [...]
Geographical Profiling
The name most closely associated with geographical profiling is Kim Rossmo. Rossmo began studying geographical profiling as part of his PhD studies at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada). He studied under professors Paul and Patricia Brentingham who developed a theoretical crime model which examined where crimes were most likely to happen, based on offender [...]
Defense Mechanism
A psychological process that protects or isolates a person from the effects of anxiety, internal and external stressors, and perceived or real dangers, usually by reducing, altering, or blocking his or her awareness of them. Defense mechanisms mediate the individual’s reactions to emotional and physical hurt, inner conflicts, and stressors of all kinds. Most defense mechanisms are [...]
Acting Out
Defense mechanism. When an inner conflict (most often, frustration) translates into aggression. It involves acting with little or no insight or reflection and in order to attract attention and disrupt other people’s cozy lives.
Comorbidity: Addiction and Other Mental Disorders
What Is Comorbidity? “Comorbidity” is a term used to describe two or more disorders or illnesses occurring in the same person. They can occur at the same time or one after the other. Comorbidity also implies interactions between the illnesses that can worsen the course of both. Is Drug Addiction a Mental Illness? Yes, addiction [...]
Charles Sobhraj “Serial Killer”
Serial killer, thief. Born on April 6, 1944, in Saigon, Vietnam. Charles Sobhraj was first called the “Bikini Killer” after the swimsuit one of his victims was wearing when she was discovered. He then earned the nickname “the Serpent” for his numerous escapes from jail. The son of an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother, [...]
