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Developmental Basis?
Casebook Message Boards: General Discussion: Miscellaneous:
Developmental Basis?
Author: Diana
Sunday, 09 June 2002 - 06:43 pm |        | | Many experts have written about how serial killers are created when children are abused. If so we should see similar patterns in other mammals who have been abused. It seems to me I have heard that if you mistreat a dog long enough it will become vicious. Any thoughts on this? Shouldn't we expect to see the same results in other mammals? |
Author: jose luis carril miguens
Tuesday, 11 June 2002 - 12:07 pm | | Hi Diana,
It's my opinion that killing by lust or sadism (like the Ripper did) is only in human nature, thank God.
Anyway, childhood abuse don't means, fortunately, that a child be later a killer. The following paragraph comes from "Evaluating a psychological profile of a serial killer", written by Evans Sycamnias:
[... Social withdrawal, abnormal dependence's on ones mather or ulcerated relations with ones parents, hypochondria or other attention seeking behavior including forms of colthing, delusional mind as to grandeur, severe depression, a general feeling of emptiness as to the future, inability to take criticisms, a general feeling of being mistreated, inability to assert ones self, parental taunts as to ones inability to be sufficient (or as I prefer to call it - the Hitchock 'Psycho' syndrome), mood disorders, and a general failing in attempts to succeed. Of course these are very general points, an even if someone had the majority of these (as I do), it would not necessarily mean that they would become serial killers, it is only meant as a point of reference.]
Best regards,
Jose Luis |
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