ABSTRACT
This chapter is a brief introduction to the theoretical and methodological basis for the utility and justification of different public-safety personality styles as they emerged in response to complex losses hidden in trauma syndromes. It summarizes the original hypothesis, methodology, and empirical derivations of the distinct clusters and clinical refinement that led to the five police personality styles. Dr. Ted Millon’s model operational definition of personality styles has four levels: behavioral level; phenomenological level; intrapsychic level; biophysical level. The original research in detail that was conducted from 1994 to 1995, codified, quantified, and written up in 1996, and published in 1997, can be found by the researcher and clinician who desires more detail, including statistical operations. The roots of psychopathologies or healthy adaptiveness need be primarily descriptive in groundwork, rather than secondarily interpretative, which is true in trauma and loss research as it is in all other clinical work.
