Albert Fish: American Sado-Masochistic Serial Killer

Serial killers have been around for numerous amounts of years, and while they aren’t as popular today as they once were the history of them remain very popular. In many cases, a serial killer suffers from some sort of mental illness or insanity. This is no different for the case of Albert Fish, an American serial killer who is known as one of the most vile pedophiles and killers of all time. (Montaldo, 2014) Albert Fish committed some of the most gruesome crimes I have ever read about, but he was one of the least suspecting people you would ever imagine to commit such crimes; he appeared to be a very kind older man, but deep down he was a true monster with horrific intentions.

Erik Fisher, Paul’s evil brother, is proven to be a psychopath. Erik regularly shows large amounts of impulsivity, irresponsibility of his actions, delinquency, and poor behavior control. Also, Erik shows anger and violence by threatening others. For example, when Erik is only in 5th grade, he and his friend create mischief around the neighborhood but as soon as Erik thinks that his brother will expose them, he and his friend spray paint Paul’s eyes on impulse. Psychopaths are also known for being addicted to winning. Whenever anything is in the way of Erik’s dream he can only think of one thing, revenge. Nonetheless, psychopaths also are extremely parasitic. Erik Fisher is parasitic due to his bossing around of his so-called friend Arthur.

Serial killers have fascinated the imaginations of people for a long time. One of the most notorious serial killers is Jeffrey Dahmer whose gruesome murders shocked the nation. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer also known as Milwaukee monster was a notorious American serial killer and sexual offender in the 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1978 and 1991 Dahmer had murdered 17 men. His victims were usually raped, tortured, dismembered, and cannibalism was also involved. Jeffrey was a troubled child psychologically and his social skills had a lot to be desired. All the way through his childhood he was ignored and had queer fantasies of cadavers. In his adulthood this psychosocial status quo didn 't change and was in fact aggravated.

One of the most famous criminals in history is Albert Fish. Alike many others, he also fit the description of insanity, yet, due to the severity of his wrongdoings, he was sentenced to death. Serial killer Albert Fish was proclaimed insane and still sentenced to death in the electric chair in 1935 when he was arrested for the kidnapping and murdering of Grace Budd. He was executed in the Sing Sing prison in 1936, after admitting multiple times that he strangled, dismembered and ate his victim. He had also admitted to many other especially heinous crimes, most of the young children, including extreme perversions, which the criminal also liked to cause to himself (Chermark & Bailey, 2016). Fish also had explained his behavior based on the description

Hamilton “Albert”  Fish was a cannibalistic serial killer that lived from 1870 to 1936. He was the youngest of four children and lived with his parents until the age of five. His father died when he was five so his mother brought him to an orphanage so she could find work. This is where it is believed that his masochistic behavior began.

Beth would pay for a normal life instead her dad is a convicted serial killer that is on the run. Now she has to change her name to bex and her look while readjusting to a new HS after 10 years of being schooled at an orphanage and going through tons of consoling. Now people from her past start contacting her again and she must find out the truth well finding herself again.

If you’re not paying attention, the mind can be a tricky labyrinth. The less you know about it, the more inexplicable and frightening it becomes. For example, why do seemingly benign elephants wreak havoc upon villages? In “An Elephant Crackup,” Charles Siebert explores the aberrant nature of these elephants and correlates them to their traumatizing upbringing, deprived of community and kinship. The biochemistry of the human mind, analyzed in “Love2.0” by Barbara Frederickson, serves as a worthy addendum to Siebert’s conjecture. “Love2.0” explains that the brain, hormones, and nerves work in unison to build emotional fortitude, stimulate oneself, and express positivity resonance. Siebert’s ideas of elephant culture and trans-species psyche can put Frederickson’s theory of emotions into practice. The absence of certain hormones within elephants, provided their fragmented community, can explain their volatile outbreaks. Alternatively, the reinstitution of human parental roles into elephant culture can help reconstruct their broken emotional states of elephants and rebuild their resilience; this healing process can also extend to humans.

In the addition to the hormone testosterone, other biological factors such as brain structures contribute to the behaviour of aggression. The amygdala is a part of the limbic system which is located in the frontal lobe of the brain. The amygdala is considered to function or mediate the expression of rage and fear. Research was conducted of rhesus Monkeys to determine if the amygdala was responsible for the behaviour of rage (Harry Harlow,1955). Researchers removed this region to determine the effect on the aggressive monkeys. The removal of the amygdala caused the monkeys to act lethargic and docile and inability to respond or to recognise possible threats. This research displayed the function of the amygdala in determining the fight or flight response in dangerous situations, contributing to when a human or animal should display aggressive behaviour. Therefore the amygdala’s role in regulating

Although tallying just two deaths, Ed Gein is one of America’s most infamous murderers. His notorious killings are remembered as being among the most perverse of any this century. His lunatic atrocities were magnified by the number of victims who fell prey to his sick deeds and who also fueled his numerous habits of cannibalism, necrophilia of women, and his obsession with the female body, especially his mother, Augusta Gein. Although clearly guilty for the acts Gein committed, psychiatrists were confident in their conclusion of his insanity. As is in many cases, Gein’s birth of insanity started in childhood.

The researcher tested 25 different participants in a penny-jar test while the participants were hooked up to a functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) to monitor their brain during the test. The fMRI showed a part of the brain called the amygdala, which is the part of the brain that is connected to a person’s emotions.

The anterior cingulate cortex control functions such as detecting errors, anticipating tasks, attention, motivation, and regulating and adjusting emotional responses. The insular cortex controls things such as empathy, blood pressure, the degree of pain, hand and eye motor movement, swallowing, speech articulation and so on. The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is thought to be the reason for for emotional feelings, including maternal and romantic love, anger, fear, sadness, happiness, sexual arousal, disgust, aversion, unfairness, inequity, indignation, uncertainty, disbelief, social exclusion, trust, empathy, sculptural beauty, and hallucinogenic state. Also, the insula is where a person imagines pain when looking at images of painful events while thinking about their happening to one's own

According to our textbook, “In humans, the amygdala (from the Greek word for “almond”) is an almond shaped cluster of interconnected structures perched above the brainstem, near the limbic ring.” (Goleman, D. p.14) The amygdala starts to work quickly after we hear or look at something. When we look at something, our eyes send a message to the thalamus and a translation that only our complex human mind could understand takes place. Our visual cortex then receives a majority of that initial message as it begins to work out its level of significance. If the message is related to an emotion such as fear, the amygdala gets notified, and our emotional center becomes activated. But no matter what, an emotional reaction has already taken place before

Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence, states, “This suggests that when the emotional brain is driving the body with a strong reaction—the heat of anger, say—there can be little or no empathy. Empathy requires enough calm and receptivity so that the subtle signals of feeling from another person can be received and mimicked by one's own emotional brain”. In other words, Goleman is arguing that when the emotional brain, the limbic system, overcomes the body with a strong emotional reaction, such as anger, it is hard for one to experience awareness, sensitivity, or understanding of another individual's feelings, or thoughts. Goleman is also stating, that for one to experience sensitivity, or understanding for another, they must

The frontal lobes, which are also called the cerebral cortex, are the seat of emotions and judgments related to sympathy, which is the ability to feel sadness for someone else's suffering, and empathy, which the ability to understand another's feelings and problems. They are also the seat of understanding humour, including delicate witticisms and word plays.

may provide the neural scaffold for empathy and, as a result, may have served as a biological substrate for the evolution of our