A recent rash of animal killings in Canada have raised new questions about a budding serial killer. Do serial killers target animals first? Here's what the research says.

Power/control killers are patient and they kill their victims slowly in order to prolong their own sadistic pleasure. They derive satisfaction from the suffering of their victims.

In many Hollywood films and TV shows, therapists are portrayed as quick to assign diagnostic labels to characters in the story with emotional distress. Here's why it's a bad idea.

We need the people we place our trust into to show they're empathic. New research shows why baby-kissing becomes such an important measure of psychopathy.

When psychopaths commit a homicide, their killings likely will be planned and purposeful—that is, organized, and not committed in the heat of passion.

Most inmates will re-enter society at some point and, by encouraging reading while in prison, these prisoners can improve vital social skills.

Whenever someone states that serial killers are known to have a high IQ, I tell them some of these stories and then say why that's a myth.

There is a popular belief that psychopaths are highly intelligent, but this isn't true. What accounts for this misconception?

When a stalker is a former lover, the victim must be aware of the psychological blind spots that can increase her risk.

A new take on an old childhood story

Some therapists intuitively help clients develop right brain self-regulation. Therapists who are not relationally intuitive apply "paint-by-numbers" therapy learned in grad school.

Poetry creation is often thought to result from the upsurge of unconscious process. As characteristic of schizophrenic thinking, such upsurge must be molded by creative cognition.

What if a President Trump releases his taxes and what he's hiding is so reprehensible—but legal—and we just have to live with it?

It is not true that serial killers want to get caught. Most of them love their work far too much for that to be true.