The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

by Kerry Daynes

Wakefield – known affectionately to its residents as the armpit of Yorkshire

The just-world hypothesis: The widespread but false belief that the world is essentially fair, so that the good are rewarded and the bad punished. One consequence of this belief is that people who suffer misfortunes are assumed to deserve their fates…even the victims often blame themselves.

most of the over 220,000 people in the UK with a diagnosis of schizophrenia live unremarkable, peaceful lives. They are ordinary people in your street, your office and your local pub, posing no threat or danger to anyone. But their stories don’t sell newspapers, so you, like me, only come into contact with the horror stories.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it’s never taking your car out of the garage. It’s safe in there, but you’ll never go anywhere.

we are statistically more likely to be attacked by a cow than a serial killer.