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J. Reid Meloy Ph.D.

About

J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and faculty, the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is a board-certified forensic psychologist (ABPP) and consults on criminal cases in North America and Europe. He has authored or co-authored over 220 scientific papers in various forensic psychiatric and psychological journals; and has authored, co-authored, or edited 11 books. His newest book with Dr. Jens Hoffmann is the International Handbook of Threat Assessment (Oxford Univ. Press, 2014). He is a member of the Fixated Research Group for the United Kingdom's Home Office, and a consultant to Work Trauma Services in San Francisco and Team Psychology and Security in Darmstadt, Germany. He has been a consultant to the Behavioral Analysis Units of the FBI for 13 years. He has also been a technical consultant to the television program CSI since its inception in 2001. He is a senior editor of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management.

Recent Posts
Icon Intimidation and Sexual Predation
Icon intimidation often stops investigation and prosecution of criminal sexual predation. A forensic psychologist
and retired FBI criminal profiler explain why.
Mass Murder Trending

Mass murder is trending, and contagion, cultural scripts, and cyberspace play a role

Mass murder is trending, and contagion, cultural scripts, and cyberspace play a role

The Warning Behavior of Identification

The warning behavior of identification may be useful to assess risk for targeted violence by lone terrorists and other attackers of civilians.

The warning behavior of identification may be useful to assess risk for targeted violence by lone terrorists and other attackers of civilians.

Allahu Akbar! A Psychological Abstract for Mass Murder?

Psychological abstracts are phrases shouted loudly and with great emotion prior to a mass murder by many perpetrators. They convey the conscious rationale for the act, which typically masks other, more personal motivations. "Allahu Akbar!" is such an abstract for violent jihadists, but is an authoritarian perversion of a peaceful and personal religious utterance.

Psychological abstracts are phrases shouted loudly and with great emotion prior to a mass murder by many perpetrators. They convey the conscious rationale for the act, which typically masks other, more personal motivations. "Allahu Akbar!" is such an abstract for violent jihadists, but is an authoritarian perversion of a peaceful and personal religious utterance.

The Lone Terrorist in the Workplace

Analyzing the three components of motivation when a lone terrorist embarks on a pathway toward violence in the workplace.

Analyzing the three components of motivation when a lone terrorist embarks on a pathway toward violence in the workplace.

Seven Myths of Mass Murder

The role of firearms, mental disorder, planning and preparation, the illusion of "snapping," and the dynamics of Knoll's "revenge and obliteration" are emphasized.

The role of firearms, mental disorder, planning and preparation, the illusion of "snapping," and the dynamics of Knoll's "revenge and obliteration" are emphasized.