Identifying the Markings of a Killer Richard Tithecott, an expert on Jeffrey Dahmer and the modern serial killer who wrote Of Men And Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer And The Construction Of The Serial Killer, inspires the reader to imagine a young boy born in a small New Hampshire town with a population less than that of the average college campus. His mother, a devout Methodist, preached Scripture to him whenever she got the chance. His father, a “devout” alcoholic, yelled at and beat him every time he got the chance. School was no escape from mistreatment. Bullies followed the scrawny little boy around wherever he went, forcing him to confront one of his irrational fears, death, in the form of trapping him with a skeleton. Not long after the encounter,
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Childhood Physical Abuse (CPA) occurs far more frequently than many would like to acknowledge, in roughly 25% of the population as Andrew Subica records in his article: Psychiatric and Physical Sequelae of Childhood Physical Abuse And Forced Sexual Trauma Among Individuals With Serious Mental Illness” (Subica 1). Many previous investigations and correlational studies have linked CPA with a highly increased risk of developing mental disorders. The severity of these future mental disorders can vary based on the severity of the physical abuse and the age when the child was abused. A human’s brain is not fully developed until he or she is 25 years old (Subica 2). Any traumatic event before this age can have an even more detrimental effect on their maturing brain than an event that happens after. Therefore, these years are …show more content…
This substance can be anything from alcoholic beverages to hard drugs such as benzodiazepines or amphetamines. Benzodiazepines are oftentimes regarded as the most likely hard drug to cause or trigger violence. The benzodiazepines can even be considered as a channel for the defense mechanism of displacement or projection. Displacement is a way of satisfying a strong feeling inside oneself that consist of expressing that strong feeling at an object that is a substitute for the source object. Projection is when someone attributes their own feelings of anger or hatred onto someone else, saying that it is the other person’s fault that the unacceptable or strained relationship exists. For example, in the sense of benzodiazepines or other hard drugs, the person would calm themselves down with the drug or use the drug as a catalyst that would then hasten their feeling toward violence rather than expressing their feelings, such as anger. While results from studies about benzodiazepines are far from concrete, there is definitely a strong correlation between the use of benzodiazepines and violent perpetrators (Haggard-Grann et. al 2). Environmental factors and inclinations, both genetic and social, of someone’s personality can also affect the way that benzodiazepines affect the possible developments of violent behaviors later in
Childhood Physical Abuse (CPA) occurs far more frequently than many would like to acknowledge, in roughly 25% of the population as Andrew Subica records in his article: Psychiatric and Physical Sequelae of Childhood Physical Abuse And Forced Sexual Trauma Among Individuals With Serious Mental Illness” (Subica 1). Many previous investigations and correlational studies have linked CPA with a highly increased risk of developing mental disorders. The severity of these future mental disorders can vary based on the severity of the physical abuse and the age when the child was abused. A human’s brain is not fully developed until he or she is 25 years old (Subica 2). Any traumatic event before this age can have an even more detrimental effect on their maturing brain than an event that happens after. Therefore, these years are …show more content…
This substance can be anything from alcoholic beverages to hard drugs such as benzodiazepines or amphetamines. Benzodiazepines are oftentimes regarded as the most likely hard drug to cause or trigger violence. The benzodiazepines can even be considered as a channel for the defense mechanism of displacement or projection. Displacement is a way of satisfying a strong feeling inside oneself that consist of expressing that strong feeling at an object that is a substitute for the source object. Projection is when someone attributes their own feelings of anger or hatred onto someone else, saying that it is the other person’s fault that the unacceptable or strained relationship exists. For example, in the sense of benzodiazepines or other hard drugs, the person would calm themselves down with the drug or use the drug as a catalyst that would then hasten their feeling toward violence rather than expressing their feelings, such as anger. While results from studies about benzodiazepines are far from concrete, there is definitely a strong correlation between the use of benzodiazepines and violent perpetrators (Haggard-Grann et. al 2). Environmental factors and inclinations, both genetic and social, of someone’s personality can also affect the way that benzodiazepines affect the possible developments of violent behaviors later in