"Raymond Flannery, an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard, has chosen a title that may have been designed to provoke people like me, who write that dangerousness in mental health settings is more usefully treated as a quality of situations than of people. In fact, most of The Violent Person: Professional Risk Management Strategies for Safety and Care deals with situations including domestic violence, psychiatric emergencies, and youth violence and those that generate psychological trauma. The author is an advocate of training, specifically, 'enhanced behavioral emergency training' (p 12), as a means of reducing mental health workplace violence and its consequences. Flannery takes a very broad approach, noting that refraining from acting violently, like intervening to mitigate the consequences of violence, requires attention to three domains of good health: attachments, mastery, and meaningful purpose. He includes instructions for relaxation exercises, noting, 'If a true emergency arose, your mind and body would immediately rise from the relaxation state, and you would be capable of solving the problem' (p 187). He also provides advice on how to dress to minimize violence risk (neat, professional attire, in contrast to Cawood's [Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioners' Handbook] injunction that the interviewee not feel outclassed) and an account of biological changes induced in the brain by PTSD."—Alec W. Buchanan, MD, PhD, New Haven, Connecticut in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law