An explicit and disturbing journey into the darker side of the human psyche, as seen through a real-life collection of utterly fascinating cases in abnormal psychology. Clinical and research psychologist Miguel Brooks takes readers deep into the minds of sexual sadists and predators, psychopaths, obsessive-compulsive and mood-disordered persons, as well as the guilt-burdened, depressed and suicidal. These chronicles reveal in detail the harrowing psycho-emotional descent into that private hell known only to those who have been there.