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The Macdonald triad (also known as the triad of sociopathy or the homicidal triad) is a set of three factors, the presence of any two of which are considered to be predictive of, or associated with, violent tendencies, particularly with relation to serial offenses.
The Mask of Sanity is a book by American psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley, describing his clinical interviews with psychopathic patients. It is considered a seminal work on psychopathy and its characteristics, such as the lack of internal personality structure and the ability to mask normal behavior.
The Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) is a tool to assess psychopathy in individuals, based on 20 personality traits and behaviors. It is used for clinical, legal, or research purposes and has two factors: interpersonal and affective deficits, and antisocial lifestyle.
Learn about the system created by the FBI to detect and classify the personality and behavioral characteristics of an individual based on crime analysis. Find out the phases, criticism, and limitations of this approach.
In forensic psychiatry, a pseudocommando is a mass murderer who commits premeditated murder–suicide mass killings driven by revenge fantasies, [1] [2] typically involving the stockpiling of weapons followed by a heavily armed commando-style attack.
Psychoanalytic criminology is a method of studying crime and criminal behaviour that draws from Freudian psychoanalysis.This school of thought examines personality and the psyche (particularly the unconscious) for motive in crime. [1]
Folie à deux (French for ' madness of two '), [1] also known as shared psychosis [3] or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief [4] are "transmitted" from one individual to another.
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental condition characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. DID is often associated with childhood trauma and has a history of controversy and debate in the field of psychiatry.