{"id":7826,"date":"2017-01-23T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:09:31","slug":"researchers-unravel-the-motives-of-stalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=7826","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Unravel The Motives Of Stalkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this article was written in 1998 it still an extremely informative piece that is full of information from some of the top experts on stalking. \u00a0Dr. Meloy is just one of many experts in the field that are quoted in this article.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Stalkers tend to have both &#8212; a mental illness and a personality disorder,&#8221; Dr. Meloy, a psychiatrist affiliated with the University of California at San Diego, said in an interview. &#8221;And those who stalk strangers are more likely to be psychotic than those who stalk prior sexual intimates. The latter are more likely to be drug or alcohol abusers with a dependency personality disorder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers Unravel The Motives Of Stalkers By\u00a0<span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"JANE E. BRODY\"><a title=\"More Articles by JANE E. BRODY\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/jane-e-brody\">JANE E. BRODY<\/a>\u00a0of the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Researchers Unravel The Motives Of Stalkers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1998%2F08%2F25%2Fscience%2Fresearchers-unravel-the-motives-of-stalkers.html#?secret=8Ok4wzSrib\" data-secret=\"8Ok4wzSrib\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this article was written in 1998 it still an extremely informative piece that is full of information from some of the top experts on stalking. \u00a0Dr. Meloy is just one of many experts in the field that are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=7826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1164],"class_list":["post-7826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stalking","tag-motives-of-stalkers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wvjS-22e","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9577,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=9577","url_meta":{"origin":7826,"position":0},"title":"Stalkers have been known to abuse\/kill their victim&#8217;s pets&#8230;","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"May 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Animal abuse is also often used by stalkers as a means of terrifying and distressing the victim with dead pets being left for them to find on their doorsteps. 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STALKERS: Most stalkers are what Zona (1993) and Geberth (1992) call \u201cSimple Obsessional\u201d or, as Mullen and Pathe put it (1999) \u2013\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Stalking&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Stalking","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":530,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=530","url_meta":{"origin":7826,"position":2},"title":"Serial Stalkers","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"August 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Serial Stalkers Although many victims of stalking may feel that their stalkers have chosen them because they represent something unique and desirable, and that the stalker is fixated on and possessed with only them, this often isn't the case.\u00a0 Detectives often find that if a complete background investigation is made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Stalking&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Stalking","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/War-Pigs21-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4427,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=4427","url_meta":{"origin":7826,"position":3},"title":"Predatory Stalkers &#8211; hybrid killers of women?","author":"Toni","date":"August 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a comment from a participant from a different country, on Morgan's Stalking Facebook page, and in reply to the post about predatory stalkers. \"sadly in most education on stalking, sexual stalkers are often the category missed out as they are very rare in the sense of major stalking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Morgan's Investigation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Morgan's Investigation","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?cat=490"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shadowonroad.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shadowonroad.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/morgansstalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shadowonroad.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":405,"url":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=405","url_meta":{"origin":7826,"position":4},"title":"WHAT MOTIVATES A STALKER?","author":"Toni Ingram","date":"August 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Stalkers can be driven by several different reasons, and most have stalked more than one person in their lifetime. 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