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Aileen Wuornos Patient History

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Aileen Wuornos Patient History
Jamie Goodwin
PSY303: Abnormal Psychology
Instructor: Dr. Giselle Gourrier
2/27/2017

I did this patients history for the period when she was arrested in 1991.
I. Identifying Information Patients name is Aileen Carol (Pitman) Wuornos. Aileen is a 35-year-old Caucasian, Bisexual, female who was born on Feb 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Aileen’s birth parents are Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman, however, she was adopted in 1960 by her maternal grandparents Lauri and Britta Wuornos. Aileen was married to Lewis Gratz Fell in May of 1976 and her marriage was annulled in July of the same year. Aileen’s occupation is a prostitute. She currently resides in the Florida Department of Corrections, in …show more content…

IV. Personal History
Aileen Wuornos grew up in Rochester, Michigan. She attended elementary and high school, however, she quit in the 9th grade and did not get her diploma.
Aileen was most likely a shy and nervous child who kept to herself in school and did not have many friends. Her interpersonal relationships were minimal at best, as a child she kept to herself due to a volatile home life.
Aileen’s romantic history is that of rape and prostitution. According to Aileen at age 11 she started prostituting for money and other things such as cigarettes and alcohol. When she was 14 she claims that a friend of her grandfathers raped her and she got pregnant and was forced to give her son up for adoption. She married when she was 20 to a 69-year old man, although it didn’t last long. According to her husband Aileen was abusive and often beat him with his own cane. Aileen’s last relationship was with Selby, (Tyra Moore) who she met around 1986 at a gay bar.
V. Family History
Aileen’s mother and father were only in their teens when they had her. Her mother, Diane Wuornos, was somewhere around 15 and her father, Leo Dale Pittman, was around 17. Aileen never met her father he was in jail for child molestation and he was also believed to be a schizophrenic, he ended up hanging himself in jail not long after she was born and her mother left her with her maternal grandparents when she was

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