Dr. Reid Meloy is a board-certified forensic psychologist who consults, teaches, and does research in the areas of psychopathy, threat assessment, violence and mental disorder, criminality, terrorism, and targeted attacks. He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego; and is a current faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. For more than two decades he has been a consultant to the Behavioral Analysis Unit, FBI, concerning counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal matters. In 2022 he was given the Manfred Guttmacher from the American Psychiatric Association for his edited book with Dr. Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press). He was recognized by the American Academy of Forensic Psychology for his Distinguished Contributions to the field of forensic psychology that same year. Dr. Meloy has authored, co-authored, or edited fourteen books, and numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies.