2015 through early 2023
Dr. Samenow's blog posts from Psychology Today:
Inside the Criminal Mind blog at Psychology Today
Prior to the Psychology Today blog, he published "Concepts of the Month," on this website.
Past Concepts of the Month
2014
2013
2012
2011 2010 2009 December: The Search for a "Motive" for a Crime December: A "Non-concept" but Information, Nonetheless, for December... 2007 November/December: The Male Criminal's Choice of Women 2006 December: The Overuse and Misuse of the Word "Addiction" 2005
October-November: New Paperback Edition of Inside the Criminal Mind
August-September: A Tactic: The Vagueness of the Criminal
March: Pray at Ten O'Clock, Rob at Noon
December: The Criminal Does Learn from Experience
August-September: Anger: The Metastasizing of a Cancer
June-July: Oppositional, Defiant Youngster Destroy Families
May: The Criminal's Idiosyncratic Use of Language
March/April: The Criminal's Procrastination and Default
February: James Patterson: Explaining a Supercriminal as a Product of a Broken Home
January:A Social Agenda Trumps the Reality of Character in Richard Wright's "Rite of Passage"
December: "Depression" and the Criminal
September: The Criminal's Apparent Envy of the Responsible Person
July:Criminals Do Learn from Experience
May: A Note on the Criminal's Lack of Empathy
April: A Burden or an Opportunity?
March: The Criminal's Sentimentality Does not Translate into Empathy
January/February: A Note on the Criminal's "Suggestibility"
September-October: The Criminal's Shutoff of Fear
July-August: Criminals Do Learn from Past Experience
June: The Offender’s Parents as Victim: The New Film “Beautiful Boy”
April-May: Literarcy and Recidivism
March: Bullying: A Sign of a Developing Criminal Personality?
February: An Attention Deficit Disorder is not Predisposing to Criminality
December 2010/January: The Criminal's Tactic of Silence
November: The Criminal's Misuse of Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Other Self-Help Groups
October: The Myth of the Out of Character Crime
September: "Sincerity" versus "Conviction" in an Offender Who Wants to Change
July/August: The Criminal's Pursuit of Control for Its Own Sake
May/June: Do Prisons Really Make Criminals Worse?
March/April: A Note on Religiosity and the Criminal
February: The John Edwards/Tiger Woods "Phenomenon"
January: The Changeability of the Criminal
November: The Myth of the Street Gang as a "Family Substitute"
October: Part 1: "I think it; therefore, it's true" -- a thinking error of the criminal
September: Mind-altering Substances as Facilitators of Whatever the Offender Seeks
August: The Criminal and Control
July: The Criminal's Lying: "Compulsion" or "Habit"?
June: Identifying Thinking Errors in Child Custody Cases
May: Narcissism and the Antisocial Personality Disorder -- a Lot in Common
April: Lies- "A Taint of Death"
March: The Criminal Who Wants To Change -- Where's the Excitement?
January/February: The "Conscience" of the Perpetrator of Fraud or, How a Beloved and Trusted Person Preys Upon Friends, Closest Associates, and Long Time Acquaintances
2008
November: The All or Nothing Thinking of the Criminal
October: The Argument that there is "Larceny in Every Soul" is Hollow
September: When "Rehab" and Alcoholics Anonymous is Not Enough
August: The Alleged Relationship Between Attention Deficit Disorder and Criminality
July: Peer Pressure as a Causal Factor in Criminal Behavior?
May/June: "Errors in Thinking" Apply to the Alcoholic or Problem Drinker
April: Early Identification of Antisocial Behavior - Part I
March: Does the Criminal "Burn Out" with Age?
February: More on the Role of the Social Environment
January: Does Prison Make a Person a "Worse Criminal"?
October: An Alternative View of "Compulsive" Gambling
September: The Primacy of Thinking
August: Dick Diver from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night": A comment on a 1920's narcissist and today's celebrity narcissists
July: Another "Addiction"?
June: Musings about City Safety - USA and Spain
May: Virginia Tech: Can a Future School Shooter be Identified?
April: White Collar Crime and Street Crime: Similar Thought Processes
March: More on "Addiction" as a "Disease"
February: The Criminal and Suicidal Thinking
January: "I think, therefore I feel": The Primacy of Thinking
November: The Social Environment Does Not "Cause" Crime
October: "Anna Karenina" -- A Study in Character
September: The Concept of "Nonarrestable" Criminality
August: A Note on "Copycat" Violent Crimes
July: How "Errors in Thinking" Apply to Pedophiles
June: Suggestibility and the Juvenile Offender
May: Part I: Anger and the Criminal
April: An Expanded Concept of "Criminality"
March: Neurotic Features in the Individual with an Antisocial Personality Disorder
February: Sporadic Remorse Elevates the Criminal's View of Himself as a Good Person
December05/January: Can A Criminal Learn to be Empathic? -- Parts I and II
November: "Compulsive" Gambling: Mental Disorder or Irresponsibile Choices?
September/October: Opportunistic Looting as in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
August: "Kleptomania": A Reality or a Psychiatric Invention?
July: "Love" -- The Criminal's Experience is Extremely Limited
June: The Problem with "Anger Management"
May: Religion in the Criminal's Good Opinion of Himself/Herself
April: From Maudlin Sentiment to Savage Brutality
March: The Use of the Offender's Language is Counterproductive in Interviewing and Counseling
February: The Concept of "Confrontation" in Helping Offenders Change
January: "I think, therefore it is so": A Costly Error of Thinking