Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People Paperback – January 16, 2018

More than ever, important information for the culture we now live in. Author Navarro has simplified the psychopathological concepts of problem personalities for everyday people-and most importantly, focused on us, the potential victims, and how we can avoid the damage.

This book is a must read for anyone who works with the public. I highly recommend reading this book now.

I actually purchased this book as a gift for one of my nieces who wishes to study criminal psychology. After a few weeks of gifting, she came back and told me the book is very mind opening and was a perfect match for her study interests. Very illustrative. Would definitely recommend!!!

This book, more than almost all others, is a must read.Everyone who works, goes to school, lives in a neighborhood or family, or who dates, needs this book.The checklists alone are worth more than gold.They're for regular people to use to assess if someone in their sphere is dangerous.They even help you evaluate HOW dangerous they are.Then he provides the reader with vital information about what to do when they're around a dangerous person.The book is concise and easy to use as a reference book after you've read it.He has an excellent bibliography, too.If everyone read this book, life would be so much more peaceful.

I purchased this book because I want to know about all kinds of people and it will help keep me safe

This book here will have you on the edge of your seat, especially if you live in a densely populated area like New York City. The more people around the higher the chance of you encountering a dangerous personality. Thankfully this book helps you identify and avoid them

I'll give a brief overview before I get into my opinions.This book claims to teach you how to recognize people with dangerous personalities so you can avoid these people before they do harm to you or your loved ones. There are 4 basic dangerous personalities: I created the acronym N.E.P.P. to help me remember.--Narcissist--Emotionally unstable--Paranoid--PredatorThe author writes for the lay man and as such there is no psychopath or sociopath category, instead he simply lumps them together and calls them "Predators". Bipolar, Histrionic, etc... All lumped into Emotionally unstable and never more. Your assessment of people with these characteristics are viewed with a a scale because many normal people will have a little bit of one or all of the four. It isn't until they start to score high that they become a problem.The above is my summary, and here is my opinion: This book mostly sucks. The problem with this book is that it isn't helpful for the few things I really wanted out of it. The three things are this.......One: To make a quick assessment of whether or not a person is safe for a child.Two: To make a quick assessment about my date(I do online dating) to figure out if this person is safe for me.Three: On job interviews(I'm looking for a job with a better environment), to make a quick assessment to see if the work environment is going to be safe/healthy for me.The book doesn't assist in quick anything. By a large margin the book requires you to get to know the person on a somewhat deep level. I think this book only works for people who already have someone in their life and they can't figure out if what they are seeing is all in their head or possibly they are with a toxic individual. In that sense the book really fails to do what I think it's job was/is.The book also has many bad fear mongering sentences that an emotionally unstable paranoid type might latch onto. Like the Narcissist chapter said that caressing or kissing to get sex was narcissistic. It just isn't, what the author probably meant, was that coercion, and a disregard for what the person actually wants is an indication of Narcissism. There were too many little things like that which could be misinterpreted.There was some helpful things in this book, I will now be looking for extremes in the four categories and combinations of, but my search continues for something a little better at speed reading people.

I read this books expecting nothing from it and gained so much from it. It helped me decide who would be a better candidate for president. with the election coming up I kept noticing VP Harris kept going on about “me Me me me”. And ignoring everything that’s going on. I’m proud to say I voted Trump for the first time ever!