Forensic and criminal psychology

With the regrettable increase in recent years of criminal acts in general, and of terrorist acts in particular, scenarios such as the courts of justice or social reintegration centers are...

Many psychologists and psychiatrists have questioned whether it is possible for children to be psychopaths. These can be mischievous and, in some cases, very cruel to other children. But how can it...

Before starting… Where does the word "sadism" come from?Sadism: defining the conceptThe term sadism (as a synonym of cruelty) emerged with the case of Donatien Alphonse François, more as known...

Human beings are relational beings, that is, we can only understand ourselves in relation to others, and the main place where we learn to do it is the family. Statistics indicate that around 30-40%...

Michael Stone is a doctor specializing in forensic psychiatry at Columbia University who has spent most of his life studying and analyzing in detail behaviors of all types of murderers. Thanks to all...

The concept of learned helplessness is one of the most widely studied constructs due to its decisive influence on many psychosocial processes.It has its origin in 1975, when Martin Seligman and his...

Mental illnesses have been, over the years, an associated factor in the vast majority of crimes. However, this thinking is equivocal in many ways. From the outset, we must bear in mind that not every...