This volume is a collection of work spanning the last 20 years, broken down into ten sections, each focusing on a specific domain of psychology. Part I: The Psychology of Zombies includes a new essay examining society's current love affair with the undead. Part II: Violence on the Internet explores types of violence on the internet and how to behaviorally assess the risk/threat they pose. Part III of the book focuses on topics such as what it is like to work as a Police Psychologist, outcome vs. process thinking, and hostage negotiation. Stress, trauma, & crisis intervention is the domain of psychology examined next. Part V: Criminology, includes a review of gangs in the United States, the relationship of criminal justice system to poverty, and an introduction to the fundamentals of wound ballistics. Part VI: Divorce & Family Conflict explores the impact of divorce and family conflict on the adjustment of college students. Part VII: Theories of Personality, examines personality from a variety of theoretical perspectives using several famous characters from popular culture to illustrate those theories. The next section of the book explores Memory & Intelligence and examines topics such as the self-reference effect and the accuracy of early childhood memory. Part IX: Psychological Treatment focuses on issues relevant to the therapeutic practice of psychology. The final part of this book, tackles issues from the perspective of Sociology reviewing areas such as Freud's view of religion and the growing importance of cross-cultural psychology. Ten parts, forty chapters, a collection of disquisitions.
About the Author: Dr. Evan Axelrod received his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis in Behavioral Forensics, from the University of Denver. He has been a staff member of Nicoletti-Flater Associates since June 2000 and is a Board Certified Specialist in Police and Public Safety Psychology and a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. Dr. Axelrod previously worked in the areas of emergency response and crime prevention. He is an experienced provider of therapeutic services to children, adolescents, couples, families, and individual adults. In addition to providing general counseling services, in both inpatient and outpatient settings, Dr. Axelrod specializes in pre-employment screening, fitness-for-duty evaluation, and direct and indirect threat/risk assessments. Dr. Axelrod also provides training and therapeutic services in the areas of crisis and trauma intervention, anger management, stress management, high-risk relationships, conflict resolution, peak performance, verbal communication, managing special populations, parenting, suicide/suicide-by-cop, peer support, and the detection and disruption of violence. Dr. Axelrod is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology. He has contributed to several articles and books in the areas of Police Psychology and the detection and disruption of violence and is the author of the books "Violence Goes to the Internet: Avoiding the Snare of the Net" and "Emptying the Bucket: Understanding and Managing, Change, Stress, & Trauma."