Kip Kinkel shared some characteristics from other mass murders. Most mass murders feel disconnected from their family. Kinkel didn’t feel like he was accepted in his family because even though his mother loved him, he didn’t get that same
A closer look into the case study provided by Freud helps with the complete explanation of Hans’s phobia. The fear of horses for a young boy was the focus of one of Freud’s may case studies. In the case study of Little Hans, Freud did not work one-on-one with the young child, but instead the father of the child provided information to Freud about his son. Han was a five-year-old who had an extreme fear of horses. Because of Hans’ fear of horses he also refused to leave his home.
Anal stage, from 18 months to about three years old. Gratification focuses on the anus. Activities include the retaining and expelling of faeces, important as Freud believed this is the first time a child has control of its environment. Fixation at this stage may lead to obsessions with hygiene and cleanliness, most commonly Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The phallic stage, after the anal stage lasting until age four or five.
This quote from the editorial explains what a kid with mental health issues, and violent actions resulted in. This was a horrible and terrible innocent death to the little boy and his family. “A psychiatrist who specializes in the care of adolescents testified that Kinkel, now 17, had been hearing voices since he was 12.”(Par. 3) This example form the editorial shows medical attention wasn’t given to him at all in the beginning in order to prevent this from happening. Also it explains that because it came about at a young age if help had been given early on, things might have ended differently.
In the documentary they also displayed the terrible Columbine shooting that occurred in which two teens took many lives and one of them was on prescription drugs as well. It’s just crazy; I don’t think that just because a child is displaying acts of being hyper or just being a kid should not mean that they should be labeled as a child with ADD or ADHD and pretty much force them to take these drugs that have extreme side effects. The Neurologist Fred Baugman even said himself how frightening it is that kids those days were easily diagnosed with ADHD especially by school
Olson, aka the ‘child killer’, born in Vancouver British Columbia into a relatively stable home environment, began his criminal career at the young age of 13. Like most incarcerated serial killers, Olson began as a juvenile delinquent committing less serious crimes such as theft, torturing animals, and repeatedly skipping school. His crimes became more serious into early adulthood committing, and being incarcerated for things like fraud, impaired driving, and armed robbery, but still nothing comparable to the disturbing murders he would later accomplish in life. Before being arrested, and admitting to the brutal rape and killing of 9 girls and 3 boys in 1982, law officials labeled Olson as a “hardened con-man, but not a killer” (Peter Worthington, 1997, para 7). As Olson’s former parole officer Bob Lusk said ”He was seen as a thief, a false-pretense artist, a garrulous, extroverted, egotistical kind of person, but not as a sexual offender” (as cited in Peter Worthington, 1997, para 7).
Jeffrey Dahmer & Ted Bundy The world is a dangerous place and not many people know that. There are serial killers and other violent activity in the world. All serial killers like ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer have weird psychological issues in the prefrontal cortex of their brain. Some of these issues come from psychological damage in their early childhood growing up, and some of the issues are the following: drunken fathers, abuse from the parents or being bullied for a long time. Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the notorious serial killers/cannibal.
When looking at Ted Bundy, it’s obvious that his personality might have played a big part in his crimes. As a result of his unstable home environment, Bundy displayed over-attachment problems, which will also be discussed later on. In addition, he displayed aggression from a young age and a lack of caring about other people. If personality is determined by genes such as the study done in Finland claims, then would a child who was naturally optimistic and empathetic have ended up a serial killer had they been in Bundy’s home situation? It’s impossible to tell.
Freud Before Freud there was no personality psychology or any explanations for individual personality differences or traits (Friedman & Schustack, 2012). He is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind involving the mechanism of repression, his redefinition of sexual desire and his therapeutic technique of dreams in understanding the therapeutic relationship and the presumed value of dreams as a source of insight into unconscious desires. He theorized that the human mind consisted of three basic components, the id, the ego, and the superego, and these individual parts often conflict, shaping personality and if not treated, causing neurosis. He explained it as a healthy superego works much like a parent, balancing the needs of a person’s drive to pursue events which give pleasure, the id, and a person’s self-reflection which is reality based and constantly working to keep the person responsible and societally acceptable, the ego (Thompson, 2008). He viewed the psychological world as a series of tensions between selfishness and society that strived for relief.
Unfortunately, some parents are poor examples for their children and show their children bad behavior through example like gang and criminal activities. In some cases criminal behavior is all that people know and all they know is how to take from others and possibly harm or kill them in return to help them survive. It is clear that recidivism is also linked to substance abuse, and single-family