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Can't Get You Out of My Head
Raj Persaud
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Description for Can't Get You Out of My Head
Paperback. This psychological thriller lifts the lid on the dark side of our infatuation with celebrity and possessive love. Num Pages: 390 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 265 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
William James is a young psychiatrist specialising in the psychology of stalking. A rather dry academic, but already a world authority on obsessive love - he's certainly not the type to get mixed up with beautiful women...until he's recruited by the Foreign Office to join a unique police protection unit, exclusively focused on besotted admirers who unpredictably flip into assassins. He now finds himself mingling with Philippa Foot, the unusually glamorous Foreign Secretary, and Dread, a notorious rock star.; A spate of bizarre and inexplicable threats mean he's now battling with antagonistic police forces as well as obstructive personal bodyguards. ... Read moreCan the offbeat psychiatrist apprehend these deadly stalkers, relentlessly evading sanity, hunting their prey even from behind prison bars, ever-willing to die for their delusion?; As Dread prepares for a diva's ultimate global audience - the largest charity concert in history, opened by the beguiling Foreign Secretary - William races against time. Can he prevent a massacre of the famous on a world stage?; Peppered with real-life true stories from luminaries, and other victims, this psychological thriller, already endorsed by genuine experts in the field, lifts the lid on the dark side of our infatuation with celebrity and possessive love.; ALL PROFITS FROM SALES DONATED TO THE SUZY LAMPLUGH TRUST. Show Less
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Publisher
Silverwood Books
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
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About Raj Persaud
Dr Raj Persaud is a Consultant Psychiatrist who worked as a consultant at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley NHS Hospitals in London from 1994-2008, and as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. These are the premier research and training institutions for psychiatry in Europe. He was also Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital in ... Read morethe USA and Institute of Neurology at Queens Square. His training in psychiatry since leaving UCH medical school in 1986 has been entirely at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals.Unusually for a psychiatrist, he also holds a degree in psychology, obtained with First Class Honours, and eight other degrees and diplomas, including a Masters in Statistics. He was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Research Prize and Medal, The Maudsley Hospital's own Denis Hill Prize, and The Osler Medal. The Royal College of Psychiatrists recently also awarded him the Morris Markowe Prize.In 2004 he was appointed Visiting Professor for Public Understanding of Psychiatry at Gresham College, and he was asked by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to edit its first book aimed at educating the public on psychology and psychiatry. The Mind: A Users Guide was published in 2007 and reached the top ten bestseller list. All of his five non-fiction books have been top ten bestsellers. His writing is in several established textbooks, and he has approaching 100 publications in journals such as The British Journal of Psychiatry, British Medical Journal and The Lancet. Recently he was elected Fellow of University College London and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is patron or supporter of numerous mental health charities including, at various times, OCD-UK, The Manic Depression Fellowship, Association of Post-Natal Illness, Childline, Action Aid and The Samaritans. The Independent on Sunday newspaper conducted a poll among members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Institute of Psychiatry to discover who were the top ten psychiatrists in the UK. Dr Raj Persaud was the youngest doctor to make it into this esteemed list. TheTimes newspaper also placed him as one of the Top Twenty Mental Health Gurus in the world.He is now joint podcast editor for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and also has a free app on iTunes and Google Play store entitled "Raj Persaud in Conversation". This includes a lot of information on the latest research findings in mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world.He left the NHS in 2010 for full time clinical private practice in Harley Street. He has been chair of the judges of one of the world's most prestigious prizes for popular science writing - the Aventis Prize for Science Books - in 2002 awarding the prize to Stephen Hawking. Show Less
Reviews for Can't Get You Out of My Head
"Dr Persaud has woven the facts about stalking that are important for everyone to know into a gripping story of fixation and violence... 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' captures the obsession that drives some stalkers to ever more desperate and bizarre behaviour in pursuit of their victim." - Dr Troy McEwan - one of the world's leading authorities ... Read moreon the psychology of stalking - Lecturer in Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Australia. // "An entertaining romp through the weirder frontiers of VIP protection, notable for blending into its story-line an array of serious information about the problem of stalking." - Dr David James - Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and co-founder of the UK National Stalking Clinic. // "In this fascinating novel Dr Persaud reveals the core of these obsessions and what it means for their victims." - Professor David Canter - Emeritus Professor, The University of Liverpool, and inventor of Investigative Psychology. // "Raj knows his subject; the typologies, the behaviours but ultimately the fear, the terror and the complexities of being stalked... ordinary people are living this terror on a daily basis." - Tracey Morgan, Survivor & Campaigner. // "Prior to the awareness of 'political correctness' fixated individuals that stalked Royalty, and protected cabinet ministers, were openly categorised as 'nutters' and in need of psychiatric help. The introduction of the term 'fixated' somehow softened the effect of the potential danger such individuals present. As Protection Officer to the late Diana - Princess of Wales from 1986 - 1993, I encountered an extreme variety of such people, many harmless in their pursuit of recognition, requiring very sensitive handling. Some, though very few, were persistent and complex, and their real motives difficult to assess. // 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' accurately enters the world of VIP protection, and exposes the difficulties that confront ministerial police protection teams. The secondment of William James a psychiatrist to the protection team, was sure to 'ruffle' the feathers of over protective bodyguards, suspicious perhaps as to the true motives of the presence of their 'attached shrink'. // Informative, and highly entertaining, this book should be a compulsive read for all officers attending The Police National Bodyguard Course." - Ken Wharfe MVO - Inspector - Royalty Protection, New Scotland Yard. 1986-2002. Show Less
