Monsters with Human Faces: The Psychology of Crimes with a Foreword by Mikhail Bazhmin

«It may be hard to believe, but the horror of the atrocities committed by ruthless murderers is based on the same psychological processes that shape the personalities of law-abiding individuals. Just as with external similarities. The consciousness of criminals, like... that of ordinary people, is formed according to certain laws of psychology.» In this book, you will find the answer to the question of what drives serial and mass murderers down the irreversible, bloody path of violence and death. Clinical psychologist Elizaveta Pavlova, who has been studying criminal psychology for more than ten years, shares her observations and describes the sequential stages of forming the personalities of ruthless killers, as well as psychological methods for correcting tendencies toward violent crimes.