Psychological Assessment
Today I am presented with a 50 year-old white male, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He is currently in FBI custody for the murder of 14 people, and attempted murder of three (Bruno, n.d.). Before his arrest, Dr. Lecter was a successful clinical psychiatrist. He interned at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated with his degree in medicine. He stayed in Baltimore, and established a private practice in the 1970s. His practice became highly renowned and successful (Harris, 2009). Dr. Lecter presents himself as a very intelligent, if not brilliant, individual. He appears both well cultured and sophisticated, due to his refined taste in cuisine, music and art. He is known for being a gourmet cook, and …show more content…
Lecter had a younger sister, Mischa whom he was very close with. When Lecter eight, the family moved to a forest lodge in order to escape Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. After three years at the lodge, German bombers killed Lecter’s parents and tutor while trying to disable a Soviet tank near the lodge. Looters invaded the lodge, and Lecter and his younger sister Mischa where held captive. Although Lecter was able to escape, his sister was not. She was cannibalized by the looters, who where desperate for food. Looters also fed Lecter her remains. Lecter escaped, traumatized and unable to speak and was found shortly thereafter by French forces.
Now an orphan, Lecter was returned to his family’s estate, which had been converted to an orphanage. During his time at the orphanage, Lecter began attacking and even severely wounding orphans that where bullying or attacking …show more content…
Lecter displays an absence of pro-social internal standards associated with failure to conform to lawful or culturally normative ethical behavior, demonstrated by his murders, cannibalism, and torture of his victims. He also displays a lack of concern of the feelings, needs or suffering of other. He feels lack of remorse after hurting or mistreating another person. As stated earlier, he believes that his victims are little more than “pigs”, he believes that they deserved or earned their eventual fate: death at his hand. Lecter has manipulated and lied in order to evade capture, for entertainment, and to protect his identity. He also displays a lack of concern for others as well as no remorse for his killings and manipulative and maladaptive other behavior. His frequent murders and abductions of others would be considered highly risky behavior, and he his little regard for consequences of these actions, as he believes he will not be caught. These behaviors have persisted since the age of 13, when he committed his first murder (American Psychiatric Association,
Today I am presented with a 50 year-old white male, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He is currently in FBI custody for the murder of 14 people, and attempted murder of three (Bruno, n.d.). Before his arrest, Dr. Lecter was a successful clinical psychiatrist. He interned at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated with his degree in medicine. He stayed in Baltimore, and established a private practice in the 1970s. His practice became highly renowned and successful (Harris, 2009). Dr. Lecter presents himself as a very intelligent, if not brilliant, individual. He appears both well cultured and sophisticated, due to his refined taste in cuisine, music and art. He is known for being a gourmet cook, and …show more content…
Lecter had a younger sister, Mischa whom he was very close with. When Lecter eight, the family moved to a forest lodge in order to escape Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. After three years at the lodge, German bombers killed Lecter’s parents and tutor while trying to disable a Soviet tank near the lodge. Looters invaded the lodge, and Lecter and his younger sister Mischa where held captive. Although Lecter was able to escape, his sister was not. She was cannibalized by the looters, who where desperate for food. Looters also fed Lecter her remains. Lecter escaped, traumatized and unable to speak and was found shortly thereafter by French forces.
Now an orphan, Lecter was returned to his family’s estate, which had been converted to an orphanage. During his time at the orphanage, Lecter began attacking and even severely wounding orphans that where bullying or attacking …show more content…
Lecter displays an absence of pro-social internal standards associated with failure to conform to lawful or culturally normative ethical behavior, demonstrated by his murders, cannibalism, and torture of his victims. He also displays a lack of concern of the feelings, needs or suffering of other. He feels lack of remorse after hurting or mistreating another person. As stated earlier, he believes that his victims are little more than “pigs”, he believes that they deserved or earned their eventual fate: death at his hand. Lecter has manipulated and lied in order to evade capture, for entertainment, and to protect his identity. He also displays a lack of concern for others as well as no remorse for his killings and manipulative and maladaptive other behavior. His frequent murders and abductions of others would be considered highly risky behavior, and he his little regard for consequences of these actions, as he believes he will not be caught. These behaviors have persisted since the age of 13, when he committed his first murder (American Psychiatric Association,