**A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.“Utterly compelling reading, full of raw insight into the dark mind of the criminal.”—John Douglas, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mind Hunter**Long-held myths defining the sources of and re...

This is a body of work which gives concerned parents and professionals instructive insight into the personality of "problem children" and gives practical suggestions for taking corrective and remedial steps before it's too late.

**A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.“Utterly compelling reading, full of raw insight into the dark mind of the criminal.”—John Douglas, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mind Hunter**Long-held myths defining the sources of and re...

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.A Jason Aronson Book

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind. This book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to completely change the criminals way of thinking. The authors reject traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society. Rather Yochelson and Samenow stress that the criminal must make a choice to give up criminal thinking and learn morality. A Jason Aronson Book

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess. Originally set in writing by Yochelson before his death in 1976, the materials were edited and updated by Samenow for publication. Systematic, probing and repeated interviews were used as the vehicle for gathering information on common mental themes among men apprehended and sentenced fo...

哥倫比亞大學開放課程百大法律書單之一弒親、分屍、姦殺、隨機殺人等駭人案件層出不窮，但犯罪者並不是精神失常，一切都有跡可尋，因為他們的思維模式原本就與一般人不同。張艾如 心靈之美心理治療所院長陳建安 玄奘大學應用心理學系助理教授黃富源 銘傳大學犯罪防治系講座教授蘇益賢 初色心理治療所副所長專文推薦露西因為對家人心懷不滿，抱起學步的孫子一把從六樓扔出去，孩子當場喪命。她說：「因為每個人都愛她，不再愛我。」泰瑞趁妻子外出時，在家猥褻自己七歲的兒子。他說：「這是屬於我們兩人之間的愛，這可以跟父親建立更親密的感情。」傳統的犯罪研究總是認為犯罪者是社會、心理和生理因素下的受害者，他們對這些因素少有、甚或完全沒有掌控力。與罪犯交手五十多年的臨床心理學家沙門諾挑戰這樣的觀點，他認為想找出犯罪行為的肇因是無謂之舉，這只會提供犯罪者更多藉口，好從法律制裁脫身。沙門諾博士指出...

Is there a genetic predisposition to crime? Should mental illness be taken into account? Do family and social environments have a role? Do people become abusers because they have been abused? How can people who do terrible things consider themselves good people? What should someone involved in a relationship with a criminal know? Stanton Samenow, co-author of the widely respected three-volume study of The Criminal Personality, has collected the questions posed by audiences during his speak...