DR MICKI PISTORIUS
ENCAPSULATED CURRICULUM VITAE

INTRODUCTION:
Dr Micki Pistorius is a registered counseling psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa.

She is currently a private psychologist practitioner, an international lecturer, a psycho-legal psychology consultant and author of several books.  In her psycho-legal capacity she is consulted in child-custody disputes, parental alienation cases as well as criminal cases, where she evaluates, submits reports and testifies in court.  She has also consulted for the Medical Protection Society.

From 1994 to 2000, as Commander of the Investigative Psychology Unit of the South African Police Service, she spearheaded investigations into many of the most controversial criminal cases in South Africa and has extensive forensic psychological experience.

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS AND TRAINING:
Academic:
Micki Pistorius has five degrees and acquired her DPhil doctorate in psychology from the University of Pretoria in 1996 with the first doctoral thesis in South Africa on serial killers.  She completed her Psychology Honour’s (1992) and Psychology Master’s degrees (1994) cum laude. In 2010 she completed an Honour’s degree in Archaeology.

Forensic:
Her training has been extensive. She has completed several training courses that are held in high regard internationally. Among them are:

• The Advanced Threat Assessment Course presented by Gavin de Becker Inc. in Los Angeles (USA).  Gavin de Becker specializes in threat assessment and stalking and his clients include judges, Hollywood celebrities and prominent businessmen. She was the first South African to attend this course in Los Angeles.
• The Crime Scene Analysis and Criminal Profiling course presented by retired FBI agents, Robert Ressler and Roy Hazelwood, at the University of Dundee (Scotland).
• The Advanced Interrogation and Interviewing of Serious and Sexual Offenders presented by Tell Academy.

She has been trained in advanced interrogation, interviewing and statement analyses techniques by several accredited international experts such as Mr Avinoam Sapir of the Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation (SCAN) USA and Mr Nate Gordon of the Academy for Scientific Investigative Training, USA. 

POLICE CAREER:

Her career features many firsts. Her time spent in the South African Police Services has been no exception. She was the first profiler to be appointed to the South African Police Services in 1994, specializing in serial homicide. She was the first person to initiate the Investigative Psychology Unit of the South African Police Service, founded to profile and investigate serial killers and sexual offenders.   She was appointed commander of this unit, held the rank of deputy director, equal to full colonel in terms of rank.   During her police career she dealt with more than thirty-five serial killers, several stalkers, serial rapists and other sexual offenders.  She was often called upon to deliver expert testimony in the High Court and received several recommendations from judges.

She resigned in 2000 to pursue a career as an independent consultant, private psychologist practitioner, lecturer and author.

LECTURER:
She designed, wrote and presented two courses to train South African Police Services detectives in the investigation, psychology and profiling of serial killers and other sexual offenders.

She has lectured extensively in South Africa and on international podia. She conducted training of European profilers for the Centre International de Sciences des Criminelles et Penales in Paris, France from 1998 to 2005.

She has lectured at the University of Liverpool's 5th Annual International Convention on Criminal Profiling in the UK.

In 2006 she was invited to present a two-week course on serial homicide and related crimes to the Namibian Police.

In 2010 she presented at the International MEISA congress at Sun City and she attended and presented at the APPAC congress in Athens, Greece.

AUTHOR:
Micki Pistorius is the author of the following Penguin publications:

• Catch me a Killer: a profiler’s true story, an autobiography on her career as Commander of the Investigative Psychology Unit, SAPS,  published in 2000;
• Strangers on the Street, a historical review of South African serial killers published in 2002 ;
• Fatal Females, a review of famous South African murderesses, published in September 2004;
• Profiling Serial Killers and other Crimes in South Africa, published in November 2005;
• Skimme in die Skadu, Reeksmoorde ‘n profielsamesteller se ware verhaal published in 2006.

She often writes articles for various South African magazines and newspapers and has been a reality crime tv presenter on several South African and international television stations.

Academic publications include:

• ‘n Kruisevaluering van die teorieë rondom die Oedipuskompleks aan die hand van ‘n gevallestudie. University of Pretoria, MA Thesis 1993
• Entering the positive Oedipus position – a different perspective. Propersona, vol 4 no 2  p 1-5
• A Psycho-analytical approach to serial killers. University of Pretoria, D Phil Thesis, 1996
• Forensic Criminalistics: Crime Scene as information source. Co-author, chapter 2. 1996

MEMBERSHIP
South African Society for Clinical Hypnosis
Psycho-legal peer review group, Pretoria
Who’s who in South Africa

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