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Andrei Chotilo Case Study

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On November, 28, 1990, one of the forensic psychologists had an opportunity to interview Andrei Chikatilo. The psychologist reported that the communication was hard to build. He held himself stiffly. He usually was seating in a monotonous uncomfortable posture, hunched over, trying not to look around. He did not show any desire to talk, he was answering all the questions chilly. He tried to dodge, giving more details of the event rather than describing the reasons of the murders. Later he highlighted his vulnerability and defenselessness, wanted to speak with the medical personnel because, as he stated, it gives him relief. He also remembered the languor and warmth of those times spent with his family. Andrei Chikatilo was born on October, 16, 1936, in a village Yablochnoe, Kharkov oblast, Ukrainian SSR. He was …show more content…

By the time he was born, his parents were already older than 30 years. Chikatilo described his father as a militant person, because the war has left an indelible psychological wound on his personality. The father was announced a traitor of the motherland, often, sharing his memories about the war, hostilities, the concentration camp, cried. His mother was very religious, soft and timid. The family was living in the hard war conditions, rarely having an opportunity to eat. Andrei was growing up quiet, introverted, shy, did not have any close friends, and differed by dreaminess, impressionability, tendency to fantasize. From the childhood, he had the memories, which caused him to have panic attacks. Sometime his memories and imagination drew the picture of bleeding piles of bodies, pools of blood, body parts of corpses, which he saw during the war (Washington, A.F.) Once, he saw how his mother was helping his sister to put back her rectum, and at that moment he was extremely disgusted by it. For a long time, when thinking about this episode, he experienced fear. Studying

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