Aileen Wuornos Psychology

Aileen was born in 1956 to her 16 year old mother. She was not born with any physical or mental disabilities. At the time of her birth her father was incarcerated for child molestation and he was also believed to be a schizophrenic, he hung himself in jail and Aileen never met him. When Aileen was 3 years old her mother abandoned her and her 4 year old brother and left them with her own parents who legally adopted them. The family struggled economically and by age 11 Aileen would engage in sexual activities for food, drugs and alcohol. Home life was not easy for Aileen as she claims to be sexually abused by her alcoholic grandfather and beaten by her grandmother. She would also engage in

In discussion of the case of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, the attachment and life course theories can be applied. Ms. Wuornos was neglected and abused by her guardians multiple times, which led her to a life of criminal activity. She began with small-scale crimes at an early age and eventually escalated to murder. This paper explores how the attachment theory played a major part in the life (and death) of a serial killer and how many lives could have been saved had Aileen’s circumstances been different. This paper also explains how Aileen Wuornos was a career criminal and how that plays a role in her escalation of crimes.

In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in her home. This was very disturbing news. I am a native Houstonian. I was at home that day. The television was on and will never forget the news breaking announcements that broke the story of a homicide in Clear Lake. All the information the reporters had was a mother killed all her children then called the police to report it. The full story and the details that lead to this tragedy did not unfold until years later. It was sad because as details unfolded if Andrea Yates had been treated properly and followed her doctors

Throughout the early days of psychology, opportunities for women where limited and it was an extremely difficult time for women to become apparent in the field of psychology. Women struggled for equality in the field of psychology and this began with our pioneers, Mary Whiton Calkins, who sat her PhD but was never awarded it, Margaret Washburn, being the first women to be awarded a PhD and Christine Ladd Franklin.

To say that Aileen’s start in life was a poor one, is a great understatement. It was a horrible life right from the start. One of the only good things about her life was that she never got to know her father, a psychopathic child molester, serving a life sentence in a Kansas prison for raping a 7 year old girl, who hanged himself in prison in 1969. (Arrigo & Griffin (2004).

After Andrea's first pregnancy, in 1994, she started experiencing postpartum depression. She experienced hallucinations and a striking vision of a knife and her stabbing someone. She never revealed this to anyone until after her arrest, when she told her husband, Rusty. As research shows, postpartum depressed or psychotic women often feel ashamed or

The mask came off and Lewis witnessed the true person Aileen appeared to be. She treated her husband very badly; she physically abused him with his own cane and he feared for his life. Lewis realized Aileen was not his perfect match and there was no place for her in his high-society lifestyle. He filed a restraining order against her, and Lewis annulled the marriage just nine weeks after their marriage (Stan, 2014). She continued down a destructive path. In 1978 at age 22, the young woman started to feel there was no longer any hope for her life and there was no other reason to continue on living. She tried to commit suicide by shooting herself in the stomach. She was admitted to a local Florida hospital. Although she survived the gunshot wound, she admitted this was not the first time she had tried to take her own

(2) She generally concealed her emotion, even when she talked about her experience of abuse and rape. While, she sometimes behaved dramatically and occasionally produced short-lived angry outbursts.

In the video that was assigned to us a woman by the name Tonier “Neen” Cain discussed her life story and the struggles she went through. She was born into a broken family with a mother that was an alcoholic and brutally beat her growing up. She was arrested 83 times and had 66 criminal convictions relating to her addiction. She got pregnant in 2004, and entered into a trauma treatment program. This program began to transform her life and the way she thought about herself. One of the main factors that I felt made her to the lifestyle she picked was the relationship she had with her mother. The mother wanted very little with her and her sense of self worth was greatly harmed because of this occurrence. She would seek to find her mother’s affection

Josie and Amir were also subjected to child maltreatment by their mother. Specifically, they experience neglect and emotional abuse. Emotional neglect “involves failing to provide emotional support, the parent fails to show the child the level of affection or attention that, as a parent, she should” (Cohen Ph.D. , n.d.). Marie has failed to provide her children with proper supervision, food, and emotional support. She degraded his self-esteem by telling him to comb his nappy hair and psychologically made him feel unimportant by screaming to his face that no one cares about his needs. Maria also neglected the need for education of her children by not wanting to bring them to school. She put them at risk by allowing drug users into her house

The abuse is usually frequent enough that the victim internalizes it. This leaves the victim feeling fearful, insignificant, untrusting, emotionally needy, and unlovable. Survivors of this form of abuse have a hard time understanding why they feel so bad (Munro, K. 2001.).

What is Lindsay Lohan up to this 2016? The clebrity has been busy making sure she maintains her youthful glow by indulging in cryotherapy in a sexy black one piece outfit.

The topic of week three’s lecture by Dr. Amanda Rebar, a heath and exercise psychologist, was research in psychology. The focus was on why and how to obtain a PhD or higher degree in the context of health psychology. Firstly, a general overview of health psychology was covered with an explanation of topics currently being studied and published in this field. Following the introduction on health psychology, careers in research and Honours and Higher degrees opportunities in research were discussed.

The study of psychology today seems to have unrecognized women psychologist in history. In the field of psychology women in the past were the minority most definitely. During that time women faced countless hardships to be equally educated as a male. This has led to unrecognition and a deficit of appreciation for the significant women psychologist of our history. Excluding women contributors to our studies minimizes our knowledge as

The essay is written about Margaret Flow Washburn. The essay speaks of her background from her early teenage years and progressing through her career as a psychologist, her battles of a woman during an American period where women equal rights of educational progress was not the same as men. The essay also speaks on the contributions to her field of psychology presenting theories on the animal mind and her motor theory.