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"The worldview of violent sex offenders is so alien to many of us that to consider them in detail, up close and personal, can feel much like going down the rabbit hole. This work is a personal/professional memoir written by a clinical psychologist who followed this rabbit hole deeply. Working with sex offenders, psychopaths, sadists, and other offenders for forty years, Anna C. Salter learned lessons about malice, where it comes from, and what it's really like to come face-to-face with what much of society considers to be true evil. This book is a highly personal, nonfiction account exploring the nature of malice and includes the impact of working with malice on those exposed to it. Throughout her career, Dr. Sadler never lost her sense of incredulity at the sometimes harrowing worldviews she encountered, but nor will she ever forget what she learned there, or what it was like to finally leave it behind."--
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1.¿The Coliseum
Chapter 2.¿Beginnings
Chapter 3.¿On Malice
Chapter 4.¿Nemesis
Chapter 5.¿The Country Doc
Chapter 6.¿How Psychopaths Think
Chapter 7.¿Working with Psychopaths
Chapter 8.¿The Interview
Chapter 9.¿On Feeling Safe: Where Does Safety Lie?
Chapter 10.¿Grief for a Lost Son
Chapter 11.¿Three Years Later
Chapter 12.¿On Connection
Chapter 13.¿On Being Safe: Guns and Poses
Chapter 14.¿The Social Contract
Chapter 15.¿Homes and Houses
Chapter 16.¿Hope
Chapter 17.¿On the Problem with Power
Chapter 18.¿The Conman and the Courts
Chapter 19.¿Society and Sex Offenders
Chapter 20.¿Lessons
Epilogue
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
About the author
Anna C. Salter is a clinical psychologist and has written eight previous books including five mysteries and three nonfiction works. She lives in Tennessee.
