Dangerous Instincts

Use an FBI Profiler's Tactics to Avoid Unsafe Situations

By: Mary Ellen O'Toole, Alisa Bowman

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

As one of the world's top experts on psychopathy and criminal behavior, Mary Ellen O'Toole has seen repeatedly how relying on the sense of fear alone often fails to protect us from danger. Whether you are opening the door to a stranger or meeting a date you connected with online, you need to know how to protect yourself from harm - physical, financial, legal, and professional.

Using the SMART method, which O'Toole developed and used at the FBI, we can confidently know how to:

• Respond to a threat in any situation
• Hire someone who will work inside your home like a contractor or housekeeper
• Figure out whether a prospective employee is a safe bet
• Know whom you can trust with your children

An especially useful book for women living alone, parents who are concerned about their children's safety, and employers worried about employees who might go postal, Dangerous Instincts gives us the tools used by professionals to navigate potentially hazardous waters. Like The Gift of Fear and The Sociopath Next Door, it will appeal to anyone looking to make the right call in an ever threatening world.

©2011 Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, LLC (P)2019 Tantor

Complete Coverage of Detecting Dangerous People

Clear explanation of and advice of detection of dangerous people and how to react to them.

Great information!

Everyone that cares about their own personal safety and that of their loved one should read this book. Plain and simple.

Expected more from this author

This truly is a very elementary book on the subject. Perhaps it was written for an audience under 18 years old?

Wish I had saved my credit.

This is a rambling treatment that repeats and repeats a couple of simple ideas and the well known work of Robert Hare.
Disappointing for a sophisticated reader. Terrible book.

It was free so I’ll go easy.

Very generic and boring. Way too many examples of “what if” exercises and not enough real life cases she was involved in or witnessed. Far too many times her final advice is to contact the police or “authorities.” In real life it just doesn’t work that way when dealing with stalking or lower level threatening situations. Far too simplistic.
I suppose we’re spoiled by so many fine audiobooks on profiling that a real clunker like this sticks out like a sore thumb.
If you can get it for free, go for it. But if a credit is involved go for The Gift of Fear instead. It’s much better and real life helpful.

No complaints with the narration at all.