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Unrivalled Fixated Threat Assessment

Protecting reputations. Helping keep people and workplaces safe.

About

Individuals and brands in the public eye use Theseus to find solutions to threatening and obsessive quests, ‘causes’ and grudges.  Legal, corporate and talent risk managers rely on us for authoritative fixated threat and risk assessment.

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Experience

We add value in cases of persistent intrusion and threat, in cases not proving amenable to legal management, or where understanding of an individual’s response to legal management, their motivation or their state of mind appear material to successful resolution.

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Corporate

Theseus brings an expert understanding of people who harass or threaten, particularly those who engage in persistent unreasonable complaint, seek unwanted relationships, threaten reputations, or whose attention is disruptive or distressing to manage.

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Expertise

In the private sphere, our fixated risk management experience and expertise are unsurpassed. Our opinion is authoritative, evidence-based and sought by senior legal and corporate risk managers around the world.

Case Risk Assessment

Theseus case risk assessment reports make sense of complexity. They represent the best available answer in situations that can be distressing, disruptive and difficult to understand. Our reports incorporate forensic psychiatric opinion and deliver an evidence-based view of risk.

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Advisory

Theseus brings a deep understanding of people and the experience of thousands of fixated risk cases to bear on our clients’ behalf. We provide retained response and advisory services to clients who may find themselves the focus of fixated threat and intrusion.

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Training

Theseus train clients in the use of CTAP-25, an evidence-based, reliable and defensible structured professional judgement tool.  CTAP-25 is designed to support the initial threat assessment of concerning communications, to aid in identifying those cases of particular concern which require prioritisation.

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The Communications Threat Assessment Protocol – 25

CTAP-25 is a reliable, effective and evidence-based tool designed for the initial threat assessment of inappropriate, concerning, or threatening communications.

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Insight

Sextortion

In recent years, the use of sextortion as a means of threat has increased significantly, fuelled by the availability of AI-generated images and deepfakes.
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Those Who Threaten Reputation

How do reputation threateners differ from those who threaten other harms, such as violence? And which reputational threateners are more likely than others to carry out their threats?
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Grievance and Risk in the Corporate Sector

Individuals who intrude on workplaces in the context of grievance, do so for longer, are more likely to approach and more frequently mean what they threaten, than those who intrude in the context of other motivations.
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Research

The CTAP-25

This paper details the background to the CTAP-25 and its development into a manualised threat assessment instrument for use both in the private sphere and in policing contexts. It reports the first evaluation of the reliability of the CTAP.  
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Approach and Persistence

Factors associated with approach and persistence in corporate threat assessment cases. 
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Threats to public figures: the importance of motivation and of purpose of threat

Particular types and forms of threat are significantly associated with subsequent approach in cases that are fuelled by grievance, but not in those with the motivation of seeking a relationship.
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