Volunteers have worked hard in 2021 to fulfill the Foundation’s Mission for another year.  Our mission statement has changed very little in the years since it was first written, our mission statement continues to guide our efforts in achieving our goal of reducing the negative impact of psychopathy on society and it is used to measure our success.

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 impacted by psychopathy.  We support research that aims to: prevent or minimize the development of psychopathic traits, reduce the effects 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
In 2021 Aftermath Foundation volunteers and psychopathy experts summarized three recent journal articles to help people understand the nature of psychopathy and some of the impacts individuals with psychopathy can have on others.

The studies we summarized had examined, relationships between domestic abuse and psychopathic traits, psychopathic social interactions by testing the Cheater-Hawk hypothesis (Individuals with psychopathy have evolved to be both aggressive and deceitful), and predictors (psychopathic traits, affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and sadism) of online trolling behaviors (using harmful and deceptive behaviors to deliberately provoke others). See the Research Committee report for a complete listing of articles summarized.

Aftermath volunteers have translated materials on the Foundation’s website into other languages so that article summaries, frequently asked questions, and “Ask the Expert” questions, among other things, can be read by people around the world.  In 2021, information about psychopathy was available on the website in 11 languages.  In 2021 the Aftermath website was visited by 19,727 people, viewing 46,628 pages in total, from around the world with most of them coming to the website for the first time. 

The top ten languages visitors spoke were:

           1) English (8,474 visitors)
           2) Polish (3,802)
           3) German (3,451)
           4) Spanish (1,766)
           5) Hebrew (729)
           6) Chinese (376)
           7) Turkish (265)
           8) Catalan (99)
           9) Russian (64)
         10) Swedish (64)

If you would like to help us reach more people by translating material from our website into other languages, please let us know! You can contact us at: moving-on-support@rosalindfranklin.edu.

Support for Families and Victims
The Foundation website continues to host a survivors’ forum, which is maintained by Aftermath moderators to ensure people are safe on the website and that the content that is posted is helpful to others and consistent with forum rules.  Using the forum is a great way to connect with other survivors and share your experiences.  A link to the “Survivors Forum” can be found on the right side of website’s homepage under “Information About Psychopathy”.  To use the forum, a username and password are the only things needed.

This year a new resource was added to the website called, Through the Eyes of Survivors: Tips for Recovery, in the hope that tips from survivors who are recovering from relationships with individuals with psychopathy may be helpful to others. Click here to read about one survivors’ perspective on “being addicted to a psychopath” and “suffering as a victim of a psychopath” and the things that they did to help facilitate recovery.

If you would like to share what you found helpful in your recovery, please let us know! You can contact us at: moving-on-support@rosalindfranklin.edu.

The Help Committee continued to assist people that contacted the Foundation for help.  We try to answer any questions a survivor or victim may have to help them on their road to recovery.  We also try to locate resources about psychopathy, including mental health professionals who understand psychopathy and who can meet a person’s specific needs.  View the Help Committee report.