Dangerous Personalities

Toni Sciarra Poynter Joe Navarro, Stephen Hoye

This is not only a great book for learning about different dangerous personality types and how to protect yourself from them, but it's also a fantastic writer's resource for those wanting realism in their bad guys...or even their anti-heroes. Looking for a controversial flaw for your hero? This book has you covered! *Delight* The author, as a former police officer and FBI profiler doesn't go into the clinical terms, but describes the behaviors of people with dangerous personalities using the words of victims in statements to police and the FBI, so they are as you would likely experience them. The personalities he describes are narcissistic, emotionally unstable, paranoid, and predator. In clinical terms some of these can be covered by more than 1 mental health disorder, depending on the specific criteria met, but they result in the same danger -- a predator is a predator,...