Package Description

You must register for the webinar. Once you have successfully registered, you will be redirected back to this learning center where you can start the course. You will also receive an email with a link to this course.

Description: This webinar will start with a review of the justifications cited by perpetrators of mass attacks, as well as a consideration of underlying psychological dynamics. Next, three psychological types of mass attackers will be presented to demonstrate the intersection of their internal dynamics and life experiences. Following this, four additional cases will be reviewed to highlight the variability in functioning among perpetrators and the need to look behind superficial accomplishments to detect risk factors for violence.

Workshop Overview

1. Preliminary material

• "Who they are and what happens to them"
• 
Underestimating psychopathology in mass attackers

• Power dynamics and identity issues

• Three categories of justifications used by mass attackers
• Challenge of identifying potential attackers: case example

2. Case examples to illustrate three psychological types of mass attackers

• Psychopathic attacker
• 
Psychotic attacker

• Traumatized attacker

3. Additional cases to illustrate diversity of functioning and presentation among attackers  

• Case example: failing in personal and professional domains
• 
Failing in personal domain, apparently succeeding in professional domain

• Apparently succeeding in personal domain, failing in professional domain
• 
Apparently succeeding in personal and professional domains

• Summary/conclusions

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify three psychological categories of mass attackers.
• Explain the role of identity issues and aspirations in mass attackers.
• Discuss the intersection of psychological dynamics and life experiences as risk factors for violence.

Presenter: Dr. Peter Langman