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Fear can't help you in a dangerous situation. A former FBI profiler shows you what can.
As one of the world's top experts on psychopathy and criminal behavior, Mary Ellen O'Toole has seen repeatedly how relying on the sense of fear alone often fails to protect us from danger. Whether you are opening the door to a stranger or meeting a date you connected with online, you need to know how to protect yourself from harm-physical, financial, legal, and professional.
Using the SMART method, which O'Toole developed and used at the FBI, we can confidently know how to:
An especially useful book for women living alone, parents who are concerned about their children's safety, and employers worried about employees who might go postal, Dangerous Instincts gives us the tools used by professionals to navigate potentially hazardous waters. Like The Gift of Fear and The Sociopath Next Door, it will appeal to anyone looking to make the right call in an ever threatening world.
A retired FBI profiler teaches you how to steer clear of psychopaths, con artists and other assorted evildoers.
O'Toole's crime-fighting expertise has helped crack some of the most heinous murder and abduction cases in U.S. history. But the author is the first to admit she couldn't correctly peg a real-life serial killer just by looking at him. To do that, she has always employed a clear, cerebral-based methodology, ruthlessly jettisoning anything even remotely resembling a "sixth sense." Her first order of business is demonstrating (through blood-curdling case references) just how faulty our everyday assessments of people generally are, which will leave many readers relieved that the odds of actually encountering a serial killer are similar to being struck by lighting. However, writes the author, there are still plenty of other villains out there intent on doing harm. Crooks, connivers and crackpots of all stripes know how to put targeted victims at ease with the right words, disarming them with charm and never hinting at their true colors until it's too late. The author's learned counsel has been proven right consistently, but her mode of instruction is often tedious; readers will hardly enjoy constantly being told that they'll learn this or that vital piece of information in a subsequent chapter. Regardless of the stilted prose, O'Toole's profiling system should prepare readers to uncover the disturbing behavior and attitudes of all the people in their lives.
Beneficial though chilling course in personal safety.
Anonymous
Posted April 6, 2012
Everyone needs to read this book! It is a great reminder that we blind ourselves with our "gut" but are inadvertantly putting ourselves in precarious situations.
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Posted September 14, 2012
This is an excellent book for parents, teachers, law enforcement any concerned about the community in which we all live. The book presents an insight into the workings of the criminal mind and gives a framework to evaluate any situation for personal risk.
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Posted June 16, 2012
Mary Ellen O'Toole has the experience and credentials as an FBI Profiler to write a book with regards to protecting yourself. This book will not "scare" you but will prepare you to protect yourself and ask the important questions. Who better than O'Toole to expound this knowledge because we have not seen what she has seen! Highly recommend this book and is a wonderful gift for family and friends.
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Posted January 27, 2012
As the title of the review states this was a very informative book. The misspellings and typos in my nook copy were distracting at times. No copy editor worth their salt should let an author's work be seen with that many mistakes. This has happened in other nook purchases, such as a whole page missing in an H.P.Lovecraft anthology.
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Posted November 8, 2011
Best Book
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Posted December 29, 2011
Very interesting information from a FBI profiler on making us more alert to people we think we can trust. The author's experience warn us not to trust our gut feelings but to ask and observe behaviors and answers to our more probing questions. We can easily be deceived by our feelings.
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Posted December 6, 2011
It was very interesting and I'd definitly read it again and again.
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Posted December 1, 2011
OMG! I was really surprised with the information I learned from this book. I'm extremely glad I decided to read it, I think everyone should. We (society) don't normally think about the information in this book that could one day save a life, our own or someone else's.
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Overview
Fear can't help you in a dangerous situation. A former FBI profiler shows you what can.
As one of the world's top experts on psychopathy and criminal behavior, Mary Ellen O'Toole has seen repeatedly how relying on the sense of fear alone often fails to protect us from danger. Whether you are opening the door to a stranger or meeting a date you connected with online, you need to know how to protect yourself from harm-physical, financial, legal, ...