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Helinä Häkkänen (born 26 April 1971 in Helsinki) is a Finnish criminal and legal psychologist (PhD) who has studied violent behaviour, narcissism and psychopathy and e.g. wrote the textbooks Psykopatia among three other textbooks and co-authored or authored over 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She worked as a criminal profiler at the National Bureau of Investigation in 2002-2011 and co-founder and managing partner of a law and psychology firm in 2011-2021. Simultaneously, since 2002 she has held an adjunct professor position, both at the University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. She is considered one of Finland's chief experts in legal and forensic psychology and has a prolific publishing record.She has served as accredited expert witness for the International Criminal Court (in 2005-2010), board member for the Nordic Network for Research on Psychology and Law (in 2006-2011) and as a reviewer for several scientific journals and funding providers. Together with the former member of the Finnish Parliament Pauliina Viitamies, she helped Finland to pass the anti-stalking law in 2013. She is regularly consulted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament.

Since the beginning of 2011 she has been increasingly focusing on her psychotherapy work and more specifically on EMDR-therapy. She has several trademarks on psychotherapy methods relating to EMDR-therapy such as Cope for Court which is a performance anxiety reduction technique for witnesses. She is the co-founder and managing partner of the first EMDR-therapy Center in Finland, Mementos Ltd, founded in 2013. Mementos has now turned into Mindroot Ltd (www.mielenjuuri.fi), which she founded in 2021 and that provides also legal psychology services.

Selected works

  • "Psychopathy, Homicide, and the Courts: Working the System" Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 36 No. 8 (August 2009), pp 761–777
  • "Finnish sexual homicides: Offence and offender characteristics" Forensic Science International, Vol. 188 No. 1 (2009), pp 125–130
  • "Homicides with Mutilation of the Victim's Body" Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 54 No. 4 (July 2009), pp 933–937
  • "Gender differences in Finnish homicide offence characteristics" Forensic Science International, Vol. 186 No. 1 (2009), pp 75–80
  • Psychopathy in Families: Implications for Clinical Interviews and Civil Proceedings Wiley Online Library
  • Psychopathy in Economical Crime, Organized Crime, and War Crimes Wiley Online Library
  • Psychopathy and law: a practitioner's guide Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell (2012)

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References

  1. Oinaala, Sampsa (11 December 2014). "Parisuhdeväkivalta alkaa salakavalasti" (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Helsingin Sanomat. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Univeristy of Helsinki". Univeristy of Helsinki. Retrieved 20 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Research Portal" (in Finnish). Finland. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/helin%C3%A4-inkeri- h%C3%A4kk%C3%A4nen-nyholm/publications/. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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