Synopses & Reviews
Stalking has emerged as a major social issue over the past decade to become the subject of intensive clinical and research study. This volume combines the authors' extensive clinical experience working with stalkers and their victims with a critical and thorough review of the existing literature. Major topics of discussion include the emergence and definition of stalking; effects and reduction of impacts on victims; and types of stalking. The authors have provided an informative, practical, and absorbing work that is a major step forward in elucidating the nature, causes, impact, and management of stalking.
Review
"This is a marvelous book, catholic in its intellectual sources, generous to other clinicians and researchers, modest in its claims-and through all that, very human. It will prove (it already has) a valuable resource to psychiatrists and others working with this group." Psychological Medicine"This is an excellent review of the recently recognized field of stalking. The authors summarize much information difficult to find in collected form elsewhere." Doody's Review Service"[The authors] provide readers a fairly exhaustive account of the emotional trauma of being a victim of stalking...this book should be of interest to upper-division undergraduate and graduate to criminological students of stalking as well as to researchers, faculty, victimologists, and victims' rights advocates." Choice"This book is a beautiful illustration of what can be achieved with remarkably few resources and a genuinely academic approach to psychiatric practice...Stalkers and their Victims will undoubtedly be the definitive volume on this topic for some time to come. It is scholarly, practical, educational, and well written. It will almost certainly cross the lay-professional barrier in a way that is both revealing and dignified." British Medical Journal"This is an excellent sourcebook for anyone with an interst in stalking...easily accessible, well illustrated with case examples, and represents an up-to-date compendium of fact, research and argument." Applied Cognitive Psychology"Stalkers and their Victims provides a welcome addition to the understanding and investigation of stalking...the author present guidelines for understanding the phenomenon and thoughtful discussion of complicated legal and social issues." Journal of the American Medical Association"This excellent book will be welcomed by all those working in the field of mental health, whether psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers or psychiatric nurses." European Journal of Psychiatry"[The authors] achieve their stated aim of being both interesting and informative and this is currently the best text on this topic." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry"I found the book fascinating, illuminating and useful." Sexual and Relationship Therapy, Padmal De Silva"This book is a refreshing and useful research resource. The text makes a worthwhile contribution to this area of forensic psychiatry." Law Society Journal
Synopsis
Informative, practical and absorbing, this book draws on the authorsâextensive experience of working with stalkers and their victims in the clinical setting. Topics covered include stalking as a public, legal and scientific issue, the definition, classification and epidemiology of stalking, and the impact of stalking on victims, as well as same-gender stalking, stalking by proxy, workplace stalking, and the stalking of professionals. With many case histories, and an approach that is at once scholarly and highly practical, this will be the definitive guide and reference for anyone with a professional or academic interest in this complex behaviour.
Synopsis
Informative, practical and absorbing, this book draws on the authors' extensive experience of working with stalkers and their victims in the clinical setting. Topics covered include stalking as a public, legal and scientific issue, the definition, classification and epidemiology of stalking, and the impact of stalking on victims, as well as same-gender stalking, stalking by proxy, workplace stalking, and the stalking of professionals. With many case histories, and an approach that is at once scholarly and highly practical, this will be the definitive guide and reference for anyone with a professional or academic interest in this complex behaviour.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Stalking - a new categorisation of human behaviour; 2. The epidemiology of stalking; 3. The victims of stalkers; 4. Classifying stalkers; 5. The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker; 6. The predatory stalker; 7. Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors; 8. The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations; 9. Same gender stalking; 10. Stalking by proxy; 11. False victims of stalking; 12. Stalking and assault; 13. Reducing the impact of stalking; 14. Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking; 15. Assessing and managing the stalker; Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index.