Jeffrey Schizophrenia Case Study

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Jeffrey has a long term mental disorder known as schizophrenia. Schizophrenia involves a breakdown in the relationship between feelings, reactions, and behaviors leading to a defective insight of inappropriate thoughts and feelings, being withdrawn from reality and having some individual relationships that involve fantasy and misconception. [1] This mental disorder may have a different result than others such as schizophrenia; paranoid, confused, withdrawn, or childlike behavior. However, Jeffrey kidnaps, kills, and eats his victims and to evade arrest, he hides the victims’ corpses throughout the city to avoid being charged with murder, and interference with a corpse. [2] If the jurisdiction in which Jeffrey commits these crimes recognize

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