Does fight or flight need updating? This is a question that was asked by a group of mental health professionals in 2004. The answer to their...

The U.S. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) provides training to law enforcement personnel from numerous federal, state, and lo...

In one of the first scenes in Full Metal Jacket , Gunnery Sgt Hartman explains that he will be the marines drill instructor. One recruit, wh...

And yet another one punch death is reported in the press - albeit with a difference. Tiffany Startz, 21, was charged with felony reckless co...

I'm working on my book tentatively titled Beyond Fight-or-Flight . The basic premise of this book is that those in activities associated...

Recall my last blog discussed a learned behavioural response to a threat stimuli - learned helplessness . I received the following two comme...

Many in activities involved in preparing a person to survive a violent encounter refer to fight-or-flight . The instinctive behavioural resp...