The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of Psychiatrists publish a wide range of books on mental health for both psychiatrists and the general public, along withtheir flagship journal the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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HumourAugust 2017CATY (Yaoundé Anti-Terrorist Unit) - Cartoon
Ça va chauffer (It's going to be a hot one)
by Georges Pondy
Bobo, a frightened young basketball player, witnesses a murder and is soon caught and held hostage by Essono, a notorious psychopathic terrorist who promises to take him to the States to play for the Chicago Bulls. Special Agent Jacky Wabo of the Yaoundé Anti-Terrorist Unit is tasked with apprehending Essono and eventually rescuing Bobo, if he is still alive...
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Humanities & Social SciencesShining Light on the Dark Side of Personality
by Peter Karl Jonason
Learn which dark side of personality assessment to use and when • Introduces different assessment tools• Highlights the nuances between tests• Presents the relevant psychometric properties• Explores findings about human nature This volume explores the latest research on the assessment of the dark personality traits, including the dark triad of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, and more. The internationally renowned group of contributors provide a comprehensive, evidence- based overview of the personality traits currently being explored and the instruments used to measure them. This convergence of research from various measures can provide a broad mosaic of information about people colloquially called psychopaths, narcissists, spiteful, Machiavellian, and sadists. For:• researchers and students of test development• practitioners
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Crime & criminologyPsychopaths
An Introduction
by Herschel Prins (Author)
"What is a psychopath? How can we tell? Are psychopaths always a risk to the public? How safe are we from criminal psychopaths? This basic guide looks at the History and development of psychopathy. It gives practical illustrations and explains key provisions for dealing with criminal psychopaths (with examples). It also examines possible causes, the difficulties involved in the assessment of risk, and the tools used to determine whether or not someone has a psychopathic personality. Psychopathy may exist in the boardroom, politics or sport just as it does in our prisons—sometimes driven or successful people can exhibit similar traits without unduly adverse reaction. But when located in an individual with violent tendencies things become problematic and the chances are that they will not be deterred by or respond to everyday approaches to crime and punishment. Psychopaths may be cold, calculating, manipulative and lack empathy for victims or others. They may be charming, intelligent and walk the streets unnoticed. This book looks at how we seek to identify those who are dangerous or predatory and the arrangements to contain them in prisons and secure hospitals in the name of public safety (often for long periods of time). An expert introduction based on huge experience; Suitable for professionals, academics and general readers; With Questions, Suggestions for Further Reading and a Glossary of key terms. ‘They are Manfred-like characters, existing in their own time and space’: Dr Emmanuel Miller, in conversation with the author. ‘I think we have to be willing to go into the darkness’: Leading psychiatrist, Sarah Trevelyan. ‘Reflects immense scholarship based on multidisciplinary perspectives, innate decency and an ability to convey complex behaviours in a readable style’: John Harding CBE. ‘A much needed text from one of the doyens in this field’: Professor David Wilson. Professor Herschel Prins is highly respected in crime and mental health circles, having started out as a probation officer, worked for the Home Office, taught in universities and served on the Parole Board, Mental Health Review Tribunal, Mental Health Act Commission and as chair of various inquiries concerning psychopaths."
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FictionJanuary 2021ABADDON
Unexpected plot twists in a story about professional murders, shrouded in mysticism, leaving the reader in doubt: is this mystery or realism?
by Rovshan Abdullaoglu
Having overflown after the long Irish rains, the river brought to shore the body of a young woman, unrecognizably disfigured by torture. This was the sixth of murders that had broken the peace of a small port town, from which the Titanic had last departed. The criminal’s game was subtle: he skillfully selected beautiful women who resembled each other, and then killed one every month, subjecting them to the most terrible torture. The killer left his signature on the bodies of all victims, even wrote meditative letters stating his philosophy of life – but still, he couldn’t be caught.And thus, the legendary investigator Sean O'Neil, sent from Dublin to Cork to catch the criminal, is facing a challenge: who is the serial killer? A criminal authority that disappeared from the field years ago? A psychopath masquerading as a human being, or a demon of hell from the Purgatory? Will the investigator be able to see the actions of the magician's left hand when all eyes are directed at his right, with which he takes a rabbit out of a hat?
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Classic crimeMarch 2020The horse killer
A strange story from Mecklenburg
by Siegfried Stang
A series of cruel horse murders in the Mecklenburg Lake District is causing disgust and horror nationwide. However, the police are initially groping in the dark and are coming under increasing pressure. This is also felt by Chief Inspector Tim Asfeld, the investigator in charge. And suddenly it is no longer just about the horses. People are also in acute danger of their lives. The young theology student Pia, who lives alone in a deserted bungalow settlement in the fall, is increasingly drawn into the maelstrom of events. She is exposed to strange, aggressive actions, the reason for which she puzzles and who is responsible. Then the events come thick and fast. And several people die. Author Siegfried Stang has incorporated his decades of experience as a criminalist into an exciting and only gradually understandable story. Thus the novel can convince with a realistic representation. Similarities with living or already deceased persons would be however nevertheless purely coincidental. The author of the book succeeds in describing the psychological background of the crimes in a plausible and comprehensible way. The criminologists and the reader only learn bit by bit why everything happens the way it did - seemingly inevitably.
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FantasyAugust 2012Healer and Other Stories
by Vincent Cobb
In this collection of short stories Vincent Cobb explores aspects of life that are both extraordinary and interesting but often delve in to the otherworld of the supernatural. From the story of the remarkable but apparently ordinary Agnes Ward , whose discovery of Cancer takes her on a journey out of this world .We meet Fred who is Dead , no one has told him and he is a bit fuddled with the situation of his own Funeral although things are going to get worse for him as the Sins of the past catch up with all men .Then there is the Psychopath , an inside the mind view of how he is made , no holds barred if you dare. What is the true price of a Fouzand Quid ? Two tramps are about to find out .The Haunting finds us in the House from hell , while the Nativity spins a new take on the greatest story ever told .In lonely Hearts a man of god finds himself trapped by the lover from hell .Succinct , entertaining and always with a wry point to make these short stories will brighten any reading time .Just don’t look over your shoulder without preparing yourself first .
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FictionThe Siberian Tiger ate my Child
by Mehrzad Jobbehdar
About the Book: Author: Mehrzad Jobbehdar Dynamic view; This Freudian view is used in criminal literature. The subconscious is first through repression and then through the process of censorship leads to the unwanted and disturbing thoughts being re-transmitted and examined to the subconscious. For people with psychotic disorders or any other disorder, everything that happened to them as a child was censored. And those events that were reborn are the beginning of anxiety and stress. So, all those tumors that have died go from the motive of death to the libidinal reason of life. And after years, the mask is removed from people's faces. In criminology, there are two terms: the crime of white-collar workers, which belongs to the upper classes of society. And the aristocratic occupation and position of this group of criminals require them to wear the most expensive white-collar clothes. And their face and appearance make people not think badly about them. Then, the crime of blue-collar means that crimes are committed by people belonging to the lower classes of society. There is no official classification for such crimes. Blue-collar crimes commonly committed by psychopaths are murder. Does the person who commits murder already cultivate the subjectivity of the mental ideal and the truth of the matter in his mind? Or not without any mental perfection, objectivity is an external rule, and subjectivity is one of the elements related to the reproduction of objective rules in our thought. Can it be said that a person who has a knife is guided by his ideal and approaches from subjectivity to objectivity, being objective and actual? Or, conversely, does he reach his perfection from reality? But it is not yet clear whether we are moving from ideal to reality or vice versa. Do influential actualities destroy mental facts or construct them? The Siberian Tiger ate my son, a novel that combines the genres of criminal psychology and uncensored horror, depicts human suffering as tragedy unfolds. Because tragedy shows the truth of human life, this novel looks at crime from different psychological angles. It involves the mind a little bit in philosophy, whether behind a murder are voluntary behaviors or not? This work is a multi-dimensional book including various psychological issues, crime, and police. It speaks in the language of images, which mostly has suspenseful scenes and less surprising moments seen in it. So the novel is closely related to the scenario and thus accompanies the audience.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSawdust Caesar Screenplay
Feature Film
by Howard Baker
SAWDUST CAESAR Stylish young Mod, school-leaver Tommy has to forget his friends and grow up quickly when he gets caught up with the criminal activities of his murdered friend's big brother bent on revenge. The true 'face' of Sixties Mods and Rockers. * Sawdust Caesar depicts the coming-of-age of Tommy who, with his friend Dinger, both fresh out of school, are making a small name for themselves as up-and-coming young criminals. But when Dinger is murdered by Kenser, the leader of a gang of bikers, the mood of the story changes when Dinger's older brother Vince, one of the top men in The Firm, recruits Tommy in place of his little brother. While Tommy's young eyes are being forcibly opened by the more unpleasant aspects of gangland life, Vince continues his search for Dinger's killers, eliminating each of the gang one by one. To further complicate Tommy's increasingly tenuous relationship with the mob, he is seduced by Beryl, the attractive wife of Ray, the top man. Worse, they are discovered in bed by Vince. But Vince has his own secret, a psychopathic aversion to street girls, and, after berating Tommy for messing around with his best friend's wife, rather than rock the boat he lets the matter drop, preferring instead to use the information as a means of retaining Tommy's diminishing loyalty. Kenser, by now the only survivor of the gang, is caught and achieves unexpected fame as the star of a snuff movie. But Vince's time on Earth also draws to a close when Ray discovers that he is the call-girl killer. Faced with gangland execution, Vince displays an unexpected side to his nature by letting Tommy off the hook - by failing to disclose information which could have led to his own survival.
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October 2020Details Are Unprintable
Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder
by Allan Levine
The body of 22-year-old New York City socialite Patricia Burton Lonergan was found in her bedroom. Charged with her death was her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan. Details Are Unprintable is a suspenseful account that builds from the moment the body was discovered in October 1943 to Lonergan’s conviction in April 1944. The case focused on the tantalizing rumor that Lonergan, a 26-year-old cadet and playboy, was a “homosexual,” who killed his wife in a fit of rage when she removed him from her will. Part fast-paced drama and part social history, this is a chronicle of Lonergan in denial living in an intolerant world, contrasted with the life of his entitled wife. What truly happened on that tragic night? Should we accept Lonergan’s confession as the jury did? Or was he a victim of physical and mental abuse by the state prosecutors and the police, as he maintained for the rest of his life?
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FictionAccidental Hitman
by A.W. Wilson
“Hitmen don’t worry about what their underwear’s like, but then proper hitmen don’t poo in their pants.” When Tom White’s dead-end life is blighted by his neighbour’s parties Tom’s aversion to face to face confrontation leads him to an unusual action: he kills the noise pollutant. Unknown to Tom, the neighbour was a target for Stan Costanza, head of a powerful criminal enterprise. Costanza’s heavies are more adept than the police at tracking Tom down and in a farcically comic meeting become convinced that Tom is a skilled lone assassin “one of them ones with the eastern mystical influences”. They offer him another hit and Tom, too scared and perhaps too flattered to decline, takes the job, and the next. Colin, Tom’s best friend, shares Tom’s macabre moral compass and rides shotgun on his assignments, leading to a series of comedy set-pieces but inevitably into darker waters as the reality of their actions takes hold, causing the pair to fall out. Tom catches the interest of Laura, the barmaid in his local pub, and becomes torn between his desire for the long-term object of his affections and the need to keep his nefarious activities from her. When the impossibly beautiful Stephanie arrives, Tom assumes she is a high-ranking member of Costanza’s operation and takes the contracts she assigns. Stephanie doesn’t tell him that her father was murdered by Stan Costanza in a criminal coup d’etat. Stephanie is orchestrating a turf-war between two rival gangs using Tom, along with some of Costanza’s own people, as a key piece in her game to avenge her father’s death and regain her birthright. By the time he realises that he is an unwitting double agent, Tom is being pursued by two police forces and both gangs. As the net closes around him he has no option but to ‘fess up to Laura, make peace with Colin and leave his fate in the hands of Stephanie. Costanza meets his arch-rival, Joe Barrett, for a sit-down to discusstheir mutual problem - namely Tom White - but this is actually Stephanie’s final push. She shows her cards to the hapless crime-lords, including the fact that she has turned most of their own men against them. In a final showdown, Stephanie kills both men and takes what is rightfully hers. But what of Tom? Wanted for murder he badly needs a fresh start. Stephanie uses her valuable connections to set up a new life for him, Laura and Colin under the cloak of the witness protection program in the USA. They have a new home, new names and Tom has a new job, one that makes good use of his talents and protects his anonymity: an executioner for the state of Texas. Accidental Hitman is a thriller but features large doses of comedy in the rapport between the characters, the first-person narrator’s musings on modern life and the farcical situations Tom and Colin bumble into as they carry out their murders-to-order. All rights are available.
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Crime & mysteryMarch 2010When Madness Calls
When Death Stalks
by Nick Roteman
In the seaside town of Bournemouth several blonde girls vanish. Molly throws a party to celebrrate her 24th with her sister Jools. The following day leaving a crytic note she vanishes, she is blonde. Molly must find her before the killer strikes again. He is a dangerous psychopath who believes Jools belongs to him to do with as he wishes. The killer is amongst her friends and actually dating Molly. She must fight to win the day but exactly who is her true adversary, maybe not just her boyfriend!
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Fiction2 A.M.
by Chandra Bientang
Three homeless youths are found dead, hanged on the edge of a flyover in Jatinegara, East Jakarta. Then another body is discovered – this time with a utility pole wire tied around his neck. The police starts an investigation, albeit reluctantly. They have the same thought: They’re just homeless kids. Good riddance! It’s as if someone is determined to clean up the streets of Jakarta in order to reduce the city’s many complicated problems. But do those kids really deserve to die? Even if they did, is this the right way to get rid of them? And who’s the psychopath behind this madness?
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April 2016Withered + Sere
by TJ Klune
Once upon a time, humanity could no longer contain the rage that swelled within, and the world ended in a wave of fire. One hundred years later, in the wasteland formerly known as America, a broken man who goes only by the name of Cavalo survives. Purposefully cutting himself off from what remains of civilization, Cavalo resides in the crumbling ruins of the Northern Idaho Correctional Institution. A mutt called Bad Dog and a robot on the verge of insanity comprise his only companions. Cavalo himself is deteriorating, his memories rising like ghosts and haunting the prison cells.It’s not until he makes the dangerous choice of crossing into the irradiated Deadlands that Cavalo comes into contact with a mute psychopath, one who belongs to the murderous group of people known as the Dead Rabbits. Taking the man prisoner, Cavalo is forced not only to face the horrors of his past, but the ramifications of the choices made for his stark present. And it is in the prisoner that he will find a possible future where redemption is but a glimmer that darkly shines.The world has died.This is the story of its remains. ;
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Thriller / suspenseOctober 2014Last Bigfoot in Dixie
by Wally Avett
Killer bear, Appalachian psycho, Yankee gold . . . He's on the trail of something big . . . Deep in the Great Smokies, a huge black bear kills a child at a campground, and a hunt begins in a quiet mountain community where such threats are rare. Wade, an outdoorsman and backwoods columnist, is quickly deputized to find and slay the massive beast terrorizing tourists and locals alike. While on the trail, he is wounded by a pot-grower's booby trap and stalked by Junior, an authentic Appalachian psychopath. Two fellow deputies are gunned down, and rumors of buried Civil War gold surface. Wade gets unexpected assistance from a wannabe writer whose gifts prove helpful even after mushroom trances and spiritual quests-enhanced by a Minnesota Vikings horn-helmet. The discovery of a mysterious doll ties into grisly murders from the past, and Wade meets a tough, old Marine with a puzzling treasure map. All the while, the looming threat of Junior's lethal lunacy stalks Wade and his colorful allies.
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Thriller / suspenseApril 2014The Unseen
by James Mckenna
Next time you switch on your computer are the unseen waiting to enter your mind, or are they already there? DI Sean Fagan investigates the ritual murder of three young women and finds link between each victim and the world's most popular computer game, Princess Kay-ling. When police high-tech units examine hard drives taken from the murder victims' PCs, traces of subliminal psychotic induction are found. This induces victims to trust and obey characters from the game. These characters then order the women to remote places or use this trust to gain entry into their homes. When a fourth woman is murdered in Ireland, Sean realises he hunts a serial killer capable of global influence. He also discovers the Government is aware and observing, When his own young daughters become involved, nightmare encircles him.
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FictionApril 2021The Missing
by Dirk Kurbjuweit, translated by Imogen Taylor
Based on the deeds of the most notorious serial killer in German history, Dirk Kurbjuweit’s The Missing is a sophisticated exploration of the relationship between crime, politics and society in a world in which anything seems possible. Hanover, Germany, in the 1920s—the heady days of the Weimar Republic, of clashes between the police and political radicals, while the firebrand demagogue Adolf Hitler languishes in prison. A time of brutality and passion, of traumatised souls and attacks on democracy—and of grisly crime. Boys are disappearing from the streets of Hanover, one by one. Every day new and gruesome rumours take wing. It’s as if the missing have vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no trace. Detective Inspector Robert Lahnstein is assigned to the case, and is soon convinced that he is on the trail of a psychopath. Lahnstein knows he needs a new victim to lead him to the killer but he dreads the day when news will reach him of another lost boy. The Missing is that rare book: a breathtaking thriller that also provides a complex social portrait of a fabled time. Dirk Kurbjuweit not only looks into the dark heart of a murderer but of an entire society.
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THE SAGA OF SOULS #1 THE BLUE SOUL
When Oksana meets Max, the attraction she feels for him is instantaneous, almost too strong. But Max is fierce and difficult to understand. What does he hide deep inside?
by Océane Ghanem
One winter evening, Oksana goes to a nightclub to celebrate her best friend Steeve’s birthday. To get away from his sister Camelia, she sits at the bar and orders a beer. Oksana eventually notices a man in the crowd who catches her eye. He fascinates her upon first glance. She herself doesn’t understand this obsession of hers, this want to know his every move throughout the evening. She only wishes to rid herself of the sadness she feels deep down.As for Max, he enjoys his evening with his friends and roommates. However, the constant gaze of this woman at the bar intrigues and disturbs him much more than he would like. He tests her reactions, sometimes by slipping away from the dance floor while she looks away, sometimes by provoking her with mindless flirting and dancing. This curiosity will finally drive him to join her at the bar. A relationship develops between them over time, creating a strong and powerful bond.Despite this, both protagonists have secrets they would rather keep to themselves. How far will they be willing to go to prevent the other from knowing?
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EducationAn Unordinary Death
…The life of a Palestinian
by Sabra, K.C.
Most children come into life, initially at least, with a degree of trust that they are going to be treated fairly. The way a social order kills that sense of trust is often cumulative, overt and consciously executed. Within such a situation it is likely that, once becoming a man (or woman), he will not develop an instinctive inhibition about killing his co-species. One will commit such an act upon a group or individual with whom he has no sense of identity and with whom there is no empathy or conscious feeling of guilt relating to their destruction. It is an uncomfortable revelation and a hideous result of social deconstruction. Such is the case Jenna Hayat, a young woman Palestinian woman. A limping soul navigating through a dismal passage of existence, Israeli occupation is a septic wound in her heart that can't be healed, and being Palestinian is like being punished for a crime she hasn't committed. She is not hell-bent revolutionary; she is not a feminist or a nationalist, and she is not a psychopath with a death wish. She is just an ordinary young woman, trapped amid savaged inequalities. Jenna once remarked to a close friend that life was so long when you are not happy. Hers was very unhappy. Her mother succumbs to cancer, she is not permitted to marry the only man she ever loved, and she feels herself alone in is world in which there is no mercy. A martyrdom mission makes perfect sense in a life such as hers and longevity is inconsequential. Jenna makes a final and far-reaching decision, which is to look for her mercy from God instead of mere mortal men.
