by Tom Miguel Shepherd
Original Copyright © 2007
NOTE: Tom
Miguel Shepherd is an alumnus of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City) and of the College of Arts and
Science and the Graduate College of the University of Oklahoma. A philosopher
and self-trained psychoanalyst, he is the author of numerous publications on
the subject of criminal justice and
mental health.
The
schizophrenic individual has quite typically identified with two extremely
atypical and incompatible parental or surrogate parental personalities – one
extremely domineering and one somewhat passive. The domineering parent
typically seeks to fulfill his or her own life through his or her child. Thus,
the child (male or female) is not permitted to develop an independent
personality. He (or she) thus becomes the domineering parent’s alter ego. If
the domineering parent is of the opposite sex, the schizophrenic conflict for
the child-adolescent-adult is indeed much more severe than if the domineering
parent is of the same sex. I myself am a victim of such a family structure. The
only way I have been able to free myself from the unbearable conflict is to
assume an independent identity. Actually, I have assumed at least two alternate
identities in the persona of Tom Widmark and Tommy
Separdi.
In
many ways the conflict is both schizophrenic and bipolar – thus the term
schizoaffective disorder is commonly applied in diagnosing such an individual.
In
my own case (A Long Day’s Journey into Schizophrenia), my
mom was the domineering parent. In the case of baseball great Jimmy Piersall (Fear
Strikes Out), his dad was the domineering parent.
Schizophrenia
is a catch-all label for the mental confusion an individual experiences as a
result of conflicting messages conveyed by one’s peers and role models. There
may or may not be a predisposing genetic vulnerability. However, so-called schizophrenics
seem to have an extraordinary sensitivity to environmental stimuli – to environmental
stress, as it were. Leading neuro-biologists seem to agree that schizophrenia
is NOT a disease, although mental confusion may be the result of an in-utero or
early childhood flu-like viral infection. It may also result from medical
treatment with a variety of chemicals and can be exacerbated by the use of
legal, over-the-counter chemicals, to include coffee, alcoholic beverages of
all kinds, tobacco and cold remedies, all of which are encouraged or promoted
via media advertising.
Attempting to
treat schizophrenic behavior with neuroleptic drugs and antidepressant drugs
has proven, without a shadow of doubt, to be more of a nemesis than an
aid. Strangely enough, neuroleptics
tend to keep an individual in a continuous state of limbo, unable to entirely
relax, yet unable to process information,
‘a chemical straight jacket’ of sorts. Both neuroletics and
antidepressants cause restlessness or heightened anxiety, as well as other
physically debilitating side effects. Incidentally, so-called side effects
medications merely compound the patient’s mental and physical problems.
Inaugurating habits of sound nutrition
and regular exercise is the best prescription. However, schizophrenic
individuals who do not have wealthy parents that are willing to care for them
are most likely to suffer economic deprivation accompanied by hunger and
homelessness as a result of their inability to adequately process information
and therefore compete in a ruthlessly competitive economic system in which
those most able to process information are inevitably those with the most
political power and wealth.
Economic deprivation, to include
homelessness, can thus exacerbate schizophrenic behavior – confusion. Most of
those working in administrative positions in the mental health system are
indifferent to those suffering from economic deprivation and resultant
homelessness and are likely to neglect them unless they have an official
diagnosis of schizophrenia or another major mental disorder. Psychiatry is such
a sham!
The criteria for officially diagnosing
schizophrenia intentionally screens out most of those people that are
suffering from a variety of forms of schizophrenia. The obcession with
‘auditory hallucinations’ (hearing imaginary voices) is a convenient screening
device utilized by economic-based psychiatry to exclude perhaps 90 percent of
those impoverished individuals who are indeed suffering from schizophrenia or a
related brain disorder and are thus unable to sustain employment and
satisfactory interpersonal relationships.
The so-called schizophrenic individual
has been checkmated out, as it were, usually early on in life. He (or she) has
difficulty processing certain types of information. As a result, he (or she)
has no one on his (or her) ball team, as it were. He (or she) most typically
has been so dominated and simultaneously rejected and humiliated by parents and
humiliated and rejected by peers, that he (or she) has never been enabled by
anyone to develop an emotionally stable, independent, trusting personality.
Suggested further reading: Schizophrenia:
Symptoms, Causes, Treatments by Kayla F. Bernheim & Richard R. J.
Lewine. Can be purchased from Amazon.com
It is my opinion, based on my own
experience as a patient and my observations as a counselor, that the
schizophrenic is an individual who has difficulty processing information and
therefore has been physically and emotionally traumatized over a lengthy period
of time – especially during the developmental years – between birth and the
onset of adulthood – to the point that life situations are continually
overshadowed by disturbing memories of previous traumatizing situations. It is
not a mental condition that is likely to be ‘cured’ through psychiatry. The
obsession psychiatry has with so-called ‘auditory hallucinations’ seems to
conveniently avoid the underlying issue – that the voices schizophrenics hear
are not imaginary voices. They are real voices, reactivated in the form of
memory.
Thus, schizophrenia is not a disease! It
is a form of brain deficit resulting in difficulty in processing certain types
of information, often complicated with the sporadic reoccurrence of traumatic
memories. Typically, the schizophrenic has great difficulty in participating in
group sports, as the schizophrenic’s thought processes are significantly slower
than average, even though he (or she) may score in the superior range on
intelligence tests. For instance, one individual who scores 117 on an
intelligence test may graduate from college with honors and rise to become a
senior vice president of a major stock brokerage firm, while another individual
scoring 117, as a result of certain brain deficits, especially in being able to
process complex mathematics, may never graduate from college or if he does he
may wind up at the bottom of the pecking order.
The schizophrenic process can perhaps be somewhat
alleviated by practicing the principles of Buddhism – a way of living that
enables one to calm one’s unsettled state of mind by recognizing that nothing
is permanent and that through quiet meditation one can reduce one’s anxiety and
fears and thus restore one’s self to sanity – Nirvana. For more about Buddhism,
visit my site Journey into a Buddhist Way of Living. There are
numerous Buddhist schools of thought. My own school of thought is what I call
American Humanist Buddhism. I do not believe in the supernatural. I do not
believe in a god, in a soul, in heaven, or in hell. Nor do I believe in
reincarnation. Simply put, I believe in treating others with generosity and
kindness. And I believe in practicing celibacy and avoiding intoxicants and
those individuals that use intoxicants, which is very difficult to do. Most of my
problems in life have resulted from having been under the thumb a parent, a
surrogate parent or an employer who used intoxicants on a fairly regular basis.
We are all – all of us – bombarded daily
with deceptive advertising – billboard, radio, TV, on-line – encouraging us to
use alcoholic beverages and other drugs, including anti-depressants and
neuroleptics. One cannot turn on a radio or TV sports event of any kind without
being bombarded every few minutes with an advertisement for beer or another alcoholic
beverage – advertising that falsely suggests consuming intoxicants is a healthy
way to live – that consuming intoxicants is good sportsmanship! The fact is
that even anti-depressants and neuroleptics do NOT stabilize the brain. Such
pharmaceuticals destroy the brain. In the process they shrink the brain, which
is why psychiatrists are typically referred to a shrinks. The
schizophrenic process is indeed exacerbated by the use of intoxicants of all
kinds, including hallucinogens (marijuana and LSD) and by prescription
psychoactive drugs.
Research by leading scientists has
identified three biological factors in the etiology of what is commonly
referred to as schizophrenia: a genetic factor, a biochemical factor and a
neuro-anatomical factor.* It should be pointed out that biochemical factors
include the debilitating effect of psychoactive drugs, to include alcoholic
beverages, hallucinogenic drugs, neuroleptic and antidepressant drugs and
tobacco products on the nervous system. Harper Collins College Outline:
Abnormal Psychology by Timothy W. Costello. 2nd Edition. Harper
Resource. 1992. p 225.
There is no known pharmaceutical that
cures or effectively alleviates the symptoms (mental confusion) of schizophrenia,
although there are many suggestions for reducing anxiety: to include regular
exercise, adhering to the principles of sound nutrition and avoiding difficult
people. I myself have found daily transcendental meditation, while I am alone,
to be effective in reducing my anxiety or unsettled state of mind. I have
inaugurated other Buddhist principles: avoiding intoxicants of all kinds,
avoiding individuals who use intoxicants, and treating others with kindness and
consideration – even when others are not kind and considerate – based on the
knowledge that in time others will respond to kindness with kindness. The
Buddhist philosophy is thus in direct opposition to the ‘eye for an eye, tooth
for a tooth’ philosophy of ancient barbaric Judaism. By avoiding intoxicants
and practicing habits of sound nutrition and regular meditation (while alone)
the brain’s biochemistry will, in a matter of time, be restored to
‘normal.’ As long as one continues to
practice Buddhist principles, one will maintain a state of sanity and relative
tranquility.
The best preventive medicine is
establishing habits of sound nutrition, beginning with regular breast feeding
and nurturing of an infant by a mother that does not use drugs of any kind. The
positive and affectionate ongoing day-to-day interaction between an infant and
its parents or surrogate parents is instrumental. Those infants who are
positively nurtured by a male and a female parent, rather than by two parents
of the same sex, are less likely to develop schizophrenic patterns of adult
behavior.
When a child or adult ‘misbehaves,’ we,
as Buddhists, do not punish the individual by locking him or her up and by
yelling at him or her. We change the individual by treating him or her with kindness
and consideration with the understanding that in time the individual we have
treated with kindness and consideration will respond to us and to others with
kindness and consideration. In effect, we teach an individual by behaving
towards that individual in the way that we would like for him or her to behave
towards us and towards others.
Schizophrenia is hereby viewed as a
developmental condition or as a marginal adjustment to life that develops as a
result of a combination of genetic, biochemical, neuro-anatomical and
social-environmental factors that are reinforced and perpetuated by the
barbaric religions of Judaism and Islam that reinforce the institutions of
slavery (and other forms of human exploitation) and sexism and violent
punishment.
A Buddhist does not carry a gun or other
weapon. A Buddhist carries a generous, compassionate and sober mind. Because a
Buddhist is mentally awake – enlightened, and because a Buddhist realizes that
weapons are carried for the purpose of inciting violence, a Buddhist does not
carry a weapon. Only ignorant individuals use intoxicants and carry weapons and
only ignorant individuals actually use
weapons, which is why our world is in so much turmoil.
A child abandoned or neglected by parents
during the early developmental years – from birth to age five -- experiences a
deprivation of sensory input in the form of touching and vocalization. The
growth and maturation of the child is thus retarded and his ability to
participate in a social order is severely impaired. He thus commonly
experiences difficulty in establishing adult relationships – such is the
probable underlying cause and nature of behavior diagnosed as schizophrenia,
which is a general classification for adolescent and adult dysfunctional
behavior.
Children who are products of a home life
in which they benefited from interaction with their parents surely have an
easier time than children from families where they were deprived. –Signature Killers. Robert D. Keppel,
Ph. D. P 319. Pinnacle Books.
Quite frequently, the mother of a male
child or male children has no mate present to support her, either emotionally
or financially, and therefore must go to work outside the home in order to
provide for her family during her child’s or children’s early developmental
years – the first five years of the child’s life. Or a mother may emotionally
and physically withdraw into drug or alcohol dependency, thereby neglecting her
child. Even if such a child is placed in a nursery or day school, such a child
generally does not receive the type of continuous maternal bonding he would
receive from his actual mother.
In other instances, there is both a
mother and father present in the home, often both of them career-oriented
professionals, in which case the child is deprived of sufficient maternal and
paternal bonding by being left to the care of a nanny or a day-care center.
However, the parents may be troubled by
other factors – such as a disappointment in having given birth to a male child,
when they were desirous of a female child, and may thus treat their male child
as a female, thus undermining his identity as a male – or the parents may
experience disappointment in having given birth to a female child, when they
were desirous of a male child. Both parents may experience disappointment over
having given birth to a child with a deformity of some sort – in which case the
child is resultantly rejected or even abandoned by both parents.
If the father or a surrogate father (an
uncle or grandfather)) is absent altogether, especially during the first year
or first five years of his life, the male child is thus deprived of any
interaction whatsoever with an adult male and consequently is not only deprived
of male role modeling, but is not likely to be able to relate well to other
males or females during his adolescent years, as well as during his adult life.
Many adopted children remain in a state
of limbo, without sufficient close maternal or paternal nurturing from the day
they are born until they are actually placed in the hands of a caring, adoptive
parent.
If an infant runs an excessively high
temperature as a result of an illness, he (or she) may suffer irreparable brain
damage. If a child (suffering from a birth defect, an illness or an injury) is
treated by a physician with drugs, especially synthetic hormones used to treat
birth defects, or if a child is exposed to an anesthesia used during a surgical
procedure, the child may experience brain damage associated with periodically
recurring hallucinations.
If the child, adolescent or young adult
has experienced trauma (especially to the head) as a result of an accident or
as a result of violent physical abuse by another individual or individuals, be
it a parent, a surrogate parent or a member of one’s peer group – a playmate or
classmate or group of playmates or classmates – the individual is likely to
also manifest psychomotor epilepsy. In a typical case of psychomotor epilepsy,
an individual periodically loses consciousness or awareness of his whereabouts
or his actions. A routine EEG exam does not necessarily detect psychomotor
epilepsy.
There is a great deal of pressure put
upon both males and females, but especially on males, to develop and sustain
adult heterosexual relationships in virtually every society worldwide. The
pressure is reinforced, and thus intensified, through the world’s three major
religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Those males and females who find
themselves unable to satisfactorily bond with the opposite sex, usually as a
result of multiple experiences of rejection and humiliation by members of the
opposite sex during the adolescent years will either withdraw from heterosexual
relationships altogether or attempt to establish bonds with members of their
own sex. In either instance, the individual may experience extreme forms of
ambivalence and alienation from mainstream society.
The condition of ambivalence and
alienation may manifest itself in a number of ways – from avoiding any attempt to
establish any kind of a romantic-sexual relationship with the opposite sex,
usually after numerous failures in attempting to do so, to establishing
multiple short-lived, rocky relationships with the opposite sex, to most
probably making a marginal adjustment by withdrawing from all male and female
relationships and from even attempting to compete in the industrial or business
world as a result of repeated conflicts with other working people.
Problems invariably arise when
psychotherapists attempt to coerce such individuals into reestablishing
relationships, which at best are superficial, or when psychiatrists attempt to
treat the condition with drugs. Schizophrenics tend to work best at occupations
or in careers in which they can work alone – in which they can minimize their
contact with other people.
Most, if not all individuals charged with
crimes of violence are suffering from a form of schizophrenia in which
psychomotor epilepsy is paramount and they are either in a state of total
amnesia or in a state of semi-consciousness at the time of the alleged crime.
Alcoholic beverages and/or other psychoactive chemicals can trigger a seizure
in one so predisposed to the condition. Invariably such an individual is also
suffering from an extreme form of paranoia or fear.
According to Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a
leading forensic psychiatrists affiliated with Bellevue Hospital in New York,
who has studied the effect of violence on children, most, if not all, violent
behavior results from a combination of childhood abuse or trauma and some sort
of physical and organic condition – epilepsy, a head injury or a brain lesion,
cyst or tumor. In every instance, the surgical procedure performed to remove a
tumor leaves brain lesions, which can and often do result in a multiplicity of
other severe mental and physical problems for the patient.
Many experts, including Bertram Karon,
Ph. D., agree that treating individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia or any
other mental condition with psychotropic drugs is more of a nemesis than an
aid. In fact, most prescribed psychiatric drugs only exacerbate the confusion
and symptoms of schizophrenia. Anti-depressants and alcoholic beverages can be
a prescription for disaster! Anti-depressants commonly result in unpredictable
episodes of manic behavior, during which time a patient is most likely to
engage in irrational, violent behavior while in a state of semi-consciousness.
Unfortunately, prosecutors are seldom
interested in the causes of anti-social or criminal behavior, much of which is
actually triggered by prescription psychiatric drugs and alcoholic beverages.
Most defense attorneys, including public defenders, lack the perseverance, the
experience and the insight to provide adequate representation to a client
charged with assault or murder.
It
is my opinion that virtually all men and women charged with mass murder or
serial murder are suffering from such a condition, including Ted Bundy, Gary
Heidnik, Henry Lee Lucas, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, John W. Gacy Jr. and
those young people charged with schoolyard shootings, including Laurie
Wasserman. Most likely, all of the above individuals also had a minor physical
defect of some sort that resulted in their being repeatedly humiliated and
rejected by other males and females.
It
should be emphasized that all of the above individuals were reportedly
under the influence of alcoholic beverages and hallucinogenic drugs, if not
medically prescribed psychoactive drugs (neuroleptics and anti-depressants).
Unfortunately, hallucinogenic drug use, to include LSD and marijuana, is highly
recommended by Yale Law Professor Charles A. Reich in his book Greening of
America (pp 280-282), first published in September 1970. Psychoactive drugs of every kind reduce an
individual’s ability to exercise sound judgment in social situations.
Drug
use by people who have been victims of violence and other forms of abuse is no
doubt a primary cause of uncontrolled psychotic anger and of irrational
homicidal behavior – a reality that the psychiatric industry and the criminal
justice industry is not willing to acknowledge, primarily because alcoholic
beverages and other psychoactive drugs are a primary source of corporate
profits and government tax revenue. In fact, the alcoholic beverage industry
and the pharmaceutical industry spend more money than any other industry on
advertising – advertising that falsely suggests the drugs are
beneficial.
Ted
Bundy was born Ted Cowell in a home for unwed mothers and left there by his
mother for three months before she returned to take him home with her. He was
disturbed over taunting by relatives and neighbors over the fact that he was
born out of wedlock. He was also disturbed about the fact that his natural
father’s identity was never revealed to him. He was wrested away from his
maternal grandfather Cowell, a hardworking landscaper, whom he considered to be
his dad and whom he later claimed he adored, at the age of 3, possibly as a
result of his exposure to ongoing sexual abuse and violence among adult members
of the Philadelphia home of his maternal grandparents. His mother married John
Bundy when he was five years old, when he was given the surname of Bundy.
During
junior high school, Ted Bundy reportedly was ridiculed by other boys because he
preferred to shower alone in the school gym locker room. It is possible that
Bundy had a minor physiological defect that has never been publicly revealed,
yet for which he was repeatedly humiliated and rejected by males and females.
Although he was an above average student and had a couple of close male
friends, he had only one date with a female during high school. He eventually
was awarded a bachelor’s degree in psychology from a Washington state college
and worked briefly as a counselor in the mental health field. As a young man,
while working for the Republican party and still a virgin, he reportedly was
sexually violated by an adult female while he was sleeping on a sofa at
the home of a politician – possibly by the politician’s own wife. While working
for the Republican Party, he was known by his colleagues to regularly use
alcoholic beverages and marijuana. He authored a pamphlet on rape prevention
for the Washington Crime Bureau.
Note:
It is not at all likely that Bundy’s reported exposure to pornography had any
influence whatsoever in his criminally violent behavior. In fact, soft-core
pornography (and masturbation while one is alone) is considered by most
behaviorists to be a healthy outlet for a man to deal with and relieve normal
sexual tension. Such men are less likely to seek out prostitutes or to engage
in other forms of promiscuous sex. Such men are also less likely to engage in
violent behavior.
Gary
Heidnik’s parents split up before he was two years old and he lived with an
alcohol-dependent mother and her new husband until he began school, when he and
his brother went to live with their father, a strict disciplinarian who
severely humiliated Gary for ‘wetting the bed,’ and their step-mother, whom he
experienced ongoing conflicts with. He sustained a head injury as a result of
falling out of a tree while a small boy and was repeatedly humiliated by his
classmates, who nicknamed him ‘Football Head’ over the fact that his head was
resultantly misshapen. He attended the prestigious Staunton Military Academy high
school, although he dropped out before graduating as a result of psychological
problems. He was (at the age of 18) discharged from the Army (where he had been
trained as a medic) for psychiatric problems, after which he was regularly
prescribed neuroleptic drugs, to include Thorazine and Stelazine – drugs that
induce psychotic thinking rather than prevent psychotic thinking. Although
Heidnik apparently suffered from severely low self-esteem, his increasing sex
appeal as a mature man, as well as his genius IQ (tested at between 130 and
148), was bait for impoverished and mentally incapacitated women.
Heidnik
established a church and mission for impoverished mentally ill people in
Philadelphia, naming himself as bishop and he amassed a small fortune – in excess
of $550,000.00, by investing a portion of his $2,000 monthly VA disability
pension in the stock market. He eventually abducted and imprisoned young women
for the stated purpose of starting a family of his own, two or three of whom
bore him children prior to his arrest and conviction for having tortured and
murdered at least two of the women.
Henry
Lee Lucas was born into a severely impoverished family, in which he was
alternately neglected and emotionally and physically abused by his domineering
mother, who simultaneously humiliated him and his father (an amputee who
operated a home distillery) while she earned a living as a prostitute and who
forced him to watch her while she engaged in relations with other men. His
mother also sent him to school, dressed as a little girl. As a result of
repeated physical battering by his mother, he suffered from apparent physical
and mental scaring. Nevertheless, he had an underlying masculine sex appeal
that attracted women to him, as well as other men at a young age. The inner
rage he apparently harbored as a result of the way his own mother had treated
him was apparently displaced onto other women he later met. He worked for a
while as a maintenance worker at a mission.
Manson
was born to an unwed mother, who neglected him in order to earn a living as a
prostitute, once reportedly selling him to a barmaid for the price of a drink.
She was later imprisoned for strong-armed robbery while he was still a child,
when he was placed with a series of foster parents and in foster homes, then in
a state correctional institution. While
residing with an aunt and uncle, he was dressed as a girl and sent to school
dressed as a girl as a form of punishment by his uncle. Interestingly, Charles
Manson was an extremely physically attractive, somewhat docile
appearing and charismatic young man, the reason he had such a charismatic
following by other males and females, although most of the pictures of him
released by the press following his arrest for the Tate and LaBianca murders
show him to be wild-haired, bearded and irate.
Jeff
Dahmer grew up in a home in which both parents, professionally oriented (his
dad a chemist, his mom a mental health counselor) apparently neglected him,
especially following the birth of his younger brother, leaving him to his own
devices. He was trained as a medic by the Army.
John
Wayne Gacy Jr. was born into a home headed by an emotionally unstable mother
that regularly inserted suppositories into his rectum (a form of sexual abuse)*
and by a raging alcoholic father (a disabled veteran suffering from a brain
tumor) both of whom apparently severely traumatized him and undermined his
self-esteem and identity as a male. Gacy managed a Kentucky Fried Chicken
franchise for his father-in-law. He also established and operated a successful
a contracting business. He was named Man of the Year by the
Jaycees. Unable to physically attract
other young men for sexual purposes as a result of his gluttonous habits and
resultant obesity, he wound up abducting slim and trim young men to satisfy his
sexual appetite, then afterwards killing them and disposing of their bodies. *My Life Among
The Serial Killers by Helen Morrison, M. D.
Robert
D. Keppel, a criminologist who interviewed Ted Bundy and others, has attempted
to shed light on the childhood and adolescent developmental factors that
possibly derail the ‘normal’ development of an individual in his publication Signature
Killers. He has theorized the psychological development of serial killers,
beginning on page 313 of his book, which is highly recommended supplementary
reading, as are the books of others, listed below. All of the authors are
excellent writers and most are the experts in the field of forensic psychiatry.
Suggested further reading:
The Cellar of
Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik by Ken Englade - Ch. 42 - pp 202-206 – St. Martin’s Paperbacks. 1988.
Crime
Classification Manual: Second Edition. 2006. John
Douglas
The Killers Next
Door: Shocking True Stories of the Vicious Murderers Who Live Among Us
(well-documented, well-researched studies and commentaries on George Jo
Hennard, Daniel Rakowitz, Henry Lee Lucas, Laurie Wasserman, Arthur Shawcross,
Charles Andrew Williams and others that committed a single murder, serial
murder or mass murder) by Joel Norris, Ph. D. Pinnacle Books. 2002.
Signature
Killers ( pp. 313-325 – studies of men alike Ted Bundy, Gary Heidnik,
Jeffrey Dahmer and others) by Robert Keppel. Pocket Books. 1997.
My Life Among
The Serial Killers: Inside the minds of the world’s most notorious murderers by Helen
Morrison, M. D. (Subjects: Richard Macek, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy Jr., Bobby
Joe Long, Rosemary West, Wayne Williams and others). Harper Collins. 2004.
Mind Hunter by John Douglas
and Mark Olshaker. Pocket Star
Books. 1995. Chapter 18 Battle of
the Shrinks – pp 341-365.
Obsession by John Douglas
and Mark Olshaker. Pocket Books. 1998. [Buffalo Bill and Beyond Ch. 11,
pp. 364-401].
The Stranger
Beside Me (The Ted Bundy Story) by Ann Rule. Signet Books. 2001.
The Ted Bundy
Story (DVD) – a movie based on The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.
2003.
Guilty by Reason
of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Probes the Minds of Killers by Dorothy
Otnow Lewis, M. D. – Ch. 16, 17, 18 –
pp 185-256 – Fawcett Columbine – New York.
1998.
Serial Killers (a study of the
psychobiological factors, to include psychomotor epilepsy, involved in the
make-up of individuals that commit violent acts) by Joel Norris. Anchor Books:
Doubleday. 1988.
Deviant: The
Shocking True Story of Ed Gein – The Original Psycho by Harold
Schechter. Pocket Books. 1989.
Schizophrenia:
Symptoms, Causes, Treatments by Kayla Bernheim and Richard Lewine.
Norton & Company. 1979.
The Serial
Killer Files by Harold Schechter. – Chapter Six: Why They Kill pp
246-279 -- Ballantine Books. New
York. 2003.
When a Child
Kills: Abused Children Who Kill Their Parents by Paul Mones.
Pocket Book. 1991.
Where The Bodies
Are Buried: The True Story of Herb Baumaster, Indiana’s Worst Serial Killer by Fannie
Weinstein and Melinda Wilson. St. Martin’s Paperbacks. 1998
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