Review
"Dr. Raymond Flannery's The Violent Person is a masterpiece. It is must reading for anyone in risk management or hospital administration. Dr. Flannery is without question the leading authority on the violent patient. His insights and recommendations on the management of this increasing challenge in health care are not only welcomed, but essential as the face of American health care is changing. I firmly believe that adherence to his recommendations will not only improve health care, but will save careers, perhaps even lives." --George S. Everly Jr., Ph.D., ABPP, FAPM Professor of Psychology, Loyola University Associate Professor of Psychiatry, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Product Description
In recent years, we have seen an unacceptable increase in human-inflicted violence people going berserk, seemingly out of nowhere and (only on the surface) for no reason. The hideous images are seared into our memory. Tragically, health-care workers on the front lines are not immune. In their daily work, they have been victims of homicides, hostage-takings, robberies, physical and sexual assaults, and psychological trauma of all kinds. The Violent Person is written for these individuals as well as the general reader in jargon-free language by one of the foremost experts in the world on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here is a book for anyone with a concern for, and an interest in, the mechanisms of human violence, stress at the breaking point, and the workings of the human brain. This book is written to save lives. Published by the American Mental Health Foundation.
