ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a brief and tentative framework for application of how evolutionary influences have shaped each personality style through the lenses of losses within the ecology of repetitive trauma. It also offers the range of tenured professional law enforcement or mental health professional as well as the student 20 years of theory to practical applications with officers within the larger dimension of personality and personology. Personality may be thought of as a durable pattern of observable behavior, cognitions, or thoughts that are directly or indirectly and symbolically communicated in a predictable manner of stylistic expression. Self-expressions that uniquely identify each officer and distinguish fellow officers from one another allow unique variations in communicating thoughts, feelings, and emotions. One motif threading police personality styles are multidimensional traumatic losses. What is relevant varies by each officer's unique traits and the officer's clinical problems, defenses, and strengths toward adaptation and maladaptation explored heuristically, respectfully, and responsively.
