Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm
# Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm

Helinä Häkkänen (formerly Häkkänen-Nyholm; born 26 April 1971 in Helsinki) is a Finnish psychologist who has studied narcissism and psychopathy and wrote the first Finnish textbook on the subject, Psykopatia. Working as both a criminal psychologist and an associate professor, at the University of Helsinki, Häkkänen-Nyholm studies criminal behavior and the risk factors associated with it. She is considered one of Finland's chief experts in forensic psychiatry and legal psychology and has a prolific publishing record. She started her career in legal and criminal psychology at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) after which she ran a legal company. Since 2021, she has worked at Mindroot Ltd, her own company, which is specialized in providing psychological services for the legal industry and EMDR-therapy. She still co-operates with the NBI, local police and several other legal operators. Her current work as an author focuses on psychology of greed and how greed can ruin family businesses.

## 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)
