High Conflict People in Legal Disputes by Bill Eddy

High Conflict People in Legal Disputes by Bill Eddy

People with high conflict personalities (HCPs) clog our courts as plaintiffs with inappropriate claims against their personal targets of blame, and as defendants who have harmed others and need to be stopped. Everybody knows someone with a High Conflict Personality. How can he be so unreasonable? Why does she keep fighting? Can't she see how destructive she is? Can you believe they're going to court over ______?

Some HCPs are more difficult than others, but they tend to share a similar preoccupation with blame that drives them into one dispute after another--and keeps everyone perplexed about how to deal with them.

Using case examples and an analysis of the general litigation and negotiation behaviors of HCPs, this book helps make sense of the fears that drive people to file lawsuits and complaints. It provides insight for containing their behavior while managing and/or resolving their disputes. Characteristics of the five high-conflict personality disorders are explored:

BorderlineNarcissistic Histrionic ParanoidAntisocial

Bill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator, and President of the High Conflict Institute. He developed the High Conflict Personality theory and is an international expert on the subject. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist and Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center. He has taught at the University of San Diego School of Law, is on the part-time faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College, and lectures at Monash University in Australia.

Bill Eddy is the co-founder and Training Director of the High Conflict Institute, as well as a lawyer, therapist, and mediator. He is the creator of the High Conflict Personality Theory and a leading expert on resolving conflicts involving high conflict personalities and personality disorders on a global scale. Bill is a Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego and a Certified Family Law Specialist in California. He has taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law, as well as part-time faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law's Straus Institute for Conflict Resolution and the National Judicial College. He has written a number of articles as well as books. He also created the New Ways for Families strategy for handling potentially high-conflict families both in and out of family court.