Mission and Accomplishments

Aftermath Mission
The Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy Foundation is dedicated to educating the public regarding the nature of psychopathy and its cost to individuals and society.

We seek to support the families and victims of those with psychopathy.

We support research that aims to: prevent or minimize the development of psychopathic traits, reduce the impact of psychopathic traits, and understand and treat the aftermath of psychopathy. Our ultimate goal is to reduce the negative impact of psychopathy on the families and victims of psychopathic individuals.

Educating the Public
We believe that educating the public about the nature of psychopathy and its impact on other people is one of our most important priorities. The Aftermath Foundation website continues to be our primary vehicle for providing the public with reliable, current information about psychopathy. During 2018, we continued to improve our website by transferring our domain to a more secure server.  We also started working on automating memberships, which will be implemented in the coming year.

During 2018, we added a video, “Tips for Those Who May Be in Relationships with a Psychopathic Partner,” to the website. This video was designed to provide information that may be helpful to individuals who are suspicious that something is going wrong in a current relationship. It is part of a series we started two years ago to provide practical information to help people who may be dealing with psychopathy in a colleague, a friend, a family member, or someone else.

Also in 2018 a number of psychopathy experts graciously answered specific questions that were asked of them.  Doctors Mark Olver, Randall Salekin, Eva Kimonis and Essi Viding answered questions pertaining to, the challenges that are faced when trying to treat psychopathic offenders, the challenges in providing treatment for youth with psychopathic-like traits, interventions for young children with psychopathic-like traits, and the roles of genetics and the environment in the development of psychopathic traits, among other topics.

Our research volunteers continue to read scientific articles pertaining to psychopathy, and they write summaries so that everyone can understand what the research in these articles suggest.  One such summary article, “The relationship between psychopathic traits, sexual fantasy, and real-life sexual behavior,” was posted to the website in 2018.

We also continued to seek translations of resources into other languages. As we had noted in a previous report, we had some material available in eight languages by the end of 2017:  in addition to English, there were posts in Spanish, Dutch, German, Catalan, Turkish, Russian and Polish. In 2018, we added our first post in Hebrew. We continue to search for more people who can help to present information to people in other languages. If you are interested in helping us to translate material into new languages, please let us know! You can contact us at moving-on-support@rosalindfranklin.edu.  

Supporting Families and Victims
When people contact us and ask for help in locating resources on psychopathy or in finding mental health professionals who understand psychopathy, we do our best to answer their questions or help them meet their needs. In 2018, we received 64 requests for help.  We track our success in finding professionals who are open to meeting with those seeking help and other resources.  The figures for our efforts to handle requests for help in 2018 are shown here.

Supporting Research
In 2018 the Foundation continued to encourage researchers to consider the impact of people with psychopathic traits on others by sponsoring studies on our website. We allowed researchers at the University of Windsor, Canada, to use the Aftermath Foundation website to recruit participants for a research study about experiences in relationships with individuals with psychopathy.