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P1: GDW Annals of Clinical Psychiatry (ACLI) PP473-acli-372423-433 April 12, 2002 12:8 Style file version Nov. 07, 2000 ° C Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2002 ( 2002) Book Reviews Stalkers and Their Victims. By Paul E. Mullen, stalkings, though precise statistics aren’t kept. In fact, Michele Pathe, ´ Rosemary Purcell. New York, some kind of violence, usually not serious, occurs in Cambridge University Press, 2000; 310 pp., about one-third; its association with substance abuse $42.95. is robust. There is relatively little discussion of treatment Anybody care to guess who wrote the first de- (which is not even indexed!), largely because there scription of stalking, and when it was published? isn’t much that has been successful in managing these The surprise answer: none other than Louisa May people. As the authors note, many feel little motiva- Alcott, beloved author of Little Women and sim- tion to change. When they (we) are lucky, there is a ilar fiction, in a gothic potboiler that was rushed primary mental disorder that can be addressed, re- into print in 1995, just 129 years after it es- ducing the impulse to stalk. caped her pen. That it was published at
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Published: Oct 10, 2004
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