To further understand how serial killers are created by their upbringing, we must first get to know what a serial killer does, and the different types of serial killers there are running around. Many psychologists have classified that serial killers are sociopaths and or psychotic. Under the psychological microscope, Sociopath and psychopaths are considered to be the same by nature, they both exhibit antisocial behavior, but they’re both extremely different. Psychopathy, used to describe a psychotic person, is a mental disorder in which an individual manifest amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, Etc. Now a sociopath is
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These acts are known as the act-focused and process-focused. The focus of an act is simply the murdering of the individual (Holmes 7). This would be the focus of serial killers who fall under the subcategory of vision or mission based. The process-focused killing is fundamentally different compared to the act-focused. This killing is characterized by sadistic methods of torture, sodomy, rape and murder (Holmes 7). Moreover, the scene of a process-focused murder will show that great detail was put into the act in order to commit the pre-murder fantasy. Hedonistic types who want to play out any sexual fantasies normally and power/control killers commit this kind of …show more content…
For example, a seductive mother, an abusive father, sibling rivalry, a rejecting parent, a poorly developed super ego, the lack of psychological defense, poor impulse control, and a variety of other psychological reasons to play an important role in the making of a serial killer (Holmes 3). Equally important, what causes socio-genic disturbances would include poverty, the absences of a parent due to death, divorce or conviction, or abandonment from a parent altogether. Not many people would see divorce as a socio-genic disturbance in a child development, but all too often the absence of one parent can make a difference in a child’s
These acts are known as the act-focused and process-focused. The focus of an act is simply the murdering of the individual (Holmes 7). This would be the focus of serial killers who fall under the subcategory of vision or mission based. The process-focused killing is fundamentally different compared to the act-focused. This killing is characterized by sadistic methods of torture, sodomy, rape and murder (Holmes 7). Moreover, the scene of a process-focused murder will show that great detail was put into the act in order to commit the pre-murder fantasy. Hedonistic types who want to play out any sexual fantasies normally and power/control killers commit this kind of …show more content…
For example, a seductive mother, an abusive father, sibling rivalry, a rejecting parent, a poorly developed super ego, the lack of psychological defense, poor impulse control, and a variety of other psychological reasons to play an important role in the making of a serial killer (Holmes 3). Equally important, what causes socio-genic disturbances would include poverty, the absences of a parent due to death, divorce or conviction, or abandonment from a parent altogether. Not many people would see divorce as a socio-genic disturbance in a child development, but all too often the absence of one parent can make a difference in a child’s