Quotes About Psychology

this person must also have a weak ego, virtually no superego and a domineering id, which means that the fantasy will not be inhibited but will be acted out.

It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer. The process commences during the first five years of his life, whereafter he nurtures the most horrendous sexual and aggressive fantasies in which other human beings are subjugated to mere objects.

He realises that he has a problem, he knows right from wrong, but the psychological gain and, of course, the sexual gratification are so great that he refuses to give it up and seek another, more humane, manner of addressing his pain.

Most incarcerated serial killers have admitted that as soon as they are released they will murder again, and many have done so. It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer and he may be active for many years before he is arrested.

He definitely had problems in his relations with women, which probably stemmed from a bad mother-son relationship and possibly an Oedipal triangle.

The murders were more deed-focused than process-focused. The actual murder of the victim and setting him alight was much more important to the killer than meticulous planning or an attempt to conceal the bodies.

I understand serial killers' emptiness.

The mother would be overly possessive of her son and would castrate him mentally. She would treat him like a boy although he was already an adult male.

Serial killers tend to have personality disorder tendencies like anti-social, borderline, schizoid, schizo typical and paranoid personality disorder, but there is not a common category that they all share.

Elmarie and I were swamped. At that stage we were handling fifteen active serial killers between us, of whom seven were in my head.

I questioned the suspect again, asking about his life. This time he mentioned that he had slept in his mother's bed until the age of sixteen. He had lost his virginity as a teenager to a woman about the same age as his mother and he had contracted venereal diseases from prostitutes. The thought that he might have had sex with his mother crossed my mind, but I did not pursue this.

He was sodomised in prison and contracted a venereal disease. After this he suffered from impotency and the .22 rifle became a substitute for his penis. He said when he was with a woman his body became dead and he could not get an erection, but the moment he held the gun in his hands, his whole body became warm and alive.

I have found that most serial killers suffer from personality disorders rather than mental diseases. People with personality disorders have rigid personality structures and often have difficulties with interpersonal relationships, but they are not mad. On the other hand, people suffering from mental diseases may lose contact with reality, hallucinate and deteriorate in their general functioning.

Sexual crimes are very visual. Sadists want to see the pain they are inflicting upon their victim.

when a man is sexually abused as a child, he will take it out on others, while a woman will tend to take it out on herself.

To draw up a profile one needs extensive knowledge of the social sciences, including psychology, criminology and ethnology, as well as experience and a gut feeling.

I predicted that he would have been sodomised as a boy when he was the same age as the victims. Serial killers do what was done to them either directly or in a symbolic manner.

serial killers act out their fantasies. They have no conscience to inhibit them.

Serial killers are usually such normal people that their communities often react with disbelief.

Serial killers are not born evil, they develop into killers as a consequence of what happens to them during their childhood years. The tragedy of serial killers lies in the dichotomy that they feel compelled to kill innocent strangers in order to express their own pain and anger. It is an existential manifestation to them.

Freud's theory on the topological structure of the psyche, namely the id, ego and superego, provides an answer to my second question, namely the lack of an inhibiting censor, such as a conscience, to prevent the serial killer from acting out his fantasy.

The serial killer has a particularly strong and dominating id and consequently very ardent sexual and aggressive urges.

Owing to a lack of bonding with his mother or primary caretaker, or due to a symbiotic situation in which he fails to differentiate his own personality from his mother's, he has a weak ego.

the serial killer has no positive father figure with whom to identify during the latency period and he does not manage the socialisation process, and therefore does not develop a superego, or develops only faint traces of a superego.