ABSTRACT
Judging from perceptions and conversations while teaching and reviewing hostage cases with experienced crisis negotiators, the person formerly labeled as having an Inadequate Personality Disorder is an individual very frequently encountered as a hostage taker. It is difficult to state with any degree of statistical accuracy just how many people in negotiators society could be classified as having an Inadequate/Dependent Personality Disorder. Basically, an individual with a Personality Disorder is not psychotic or legally insane. They have a long-term pattern of maladaptive behavior that is usually recognized by their teenage years. As a crisis negotiator, people frequently encounter the person with an Inadequate/Dependent Personality Disorder at a poorly planned and/or performed robbery, as a member of a cult, or in a domestic dispute. The characteristics of the person with an Inadequate/Dependent Personality Disorder are such that his history of and penchant for failure in life may result in a bungled criminal act.
