Presented by: J. Reid Meloy, PhD

Although criminal violence in the United States has been incrementally decreasing for the past forty years, the incidence of targeted mass attacks has been increasing during the past decade. How can the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist assess the risk of such an attack by their patient–or when should the patient be referred for an evaluation–in the course of treatment? In this presentation, Dr. Meloy will teach the proximal warning behaviors for targeted attacks that he and his group have been researching for the past 15 years, and are now widely used by both members of law enforcement and mental health communities within North America, Europe, and Australia. Research has validated these efforts, and such proximal warning behaviors reflect both the importance of empiricism and psychodynamic formulations in the assessment of such risks.

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