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The Psychological Impact of Gang Violence

A violent injury makes you more vulnerable to future mental health problems, and repeated exposure to violence increases the risk of PTSD.

Extreme Overvalued Belief and Anders Breivik: How Beliefs Can Be Mistaken For Psychosis

Violent acts such as the mass shooting carried out by Norwegian Anders Breivik are not always the result of insanity, but of extreme overvalued belief.

Homicidal Thoughts May Be Key To Identifying Chronic Offenders

New research from Iowa State University is one of the first studies to explore offenders who display very real thoughts of murder.

The Psychopath Test: A Compelling Adventure Into The World Of Madness

Psychopaths are all around us so a famous psychologist says. Jon Ronson in this acclaimed book ‘The Psychopath Test’ uncovers the dark and seedy side of society, the one nobody knows exists.

Andrea Yates: A Tragedy Born From Postpartum Mental Illness

On 20th June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub of her family home. Four sons, John (5), Luke (2), Paul (3) and Noah (7), and one daughter Mary, just 6 months old.

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