The Making Of A Serial Killer Analysis

The Making of a Serial Killer In “The Making of a Serial Killer,” Berit Brogaard D.M. Schi., Ph.D discusses the possible social causes of psychopathology, the genetic mutations and the traits that typically make up psychopathy. She uses her specialties in cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind to address the phenomena of psychopathy, it has yet to be fully understood whether or not it is a product of genetics or social upbringing or both playing a role. Brogaard explores data of which support both genetic reasons and how social events may cause psychopathy or make it worse. Brogaard begins the article presenting multiple studies conducted and data collected regarding genetic reasoning to psychopathy for which I believe is an effective way to inform the reader about the causes of a personality disorder. One study she talked about was one from the Minnesota Study of Twin Reared Apart, it showed that psychopathy is 60 percent heritable which means psychopathic traits are more in DNA than the product of social upbringings. Brogaard then goes on to …show more content…
Brogaard then makes clear that psychotics have done a large number of gruesome crimes, not psychopaths. Psychotics being the ones that suffer from hallucinations and delusions and also being a mental disorder, not a personality disorder which is less curable than psychotic diseases. I believe it was worth mentioning the difference between psychotics and psychopaths since I don’t think many people know what they are and what makes them