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awe. I never knew that problems of this magnitude existed. I could never read the book multiple times, because for some reason, I don’t want to comprehend the fact a person could be so ruthless. Of course we've all heard stories; Charlie Manson, Ed Gein, etc, but to hear it from this standpoint is incredible. To try to understand what must have been going on in his head is painful. Another startling point noticed is, he went from David, to the boy, and then finally to "it." His mother had

A schizophrenic experiences bizarre delusions or hallucinations, have a disordered thought process, or a split mind. Having a split mind is experiencing part of reality and a split of reality. Gein and Chase had schizophrenia. The Co-Ed Killer (Edmund Kemper) and the Son of Sam(David Berkowitz) had a diversion of schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia. Personality disorders are where responses to stress are inflexible and maladaptive. Personality

his next victims. In the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, the main character, Leather Face, wears masks made of human skin and participates in murder and cannibalism, along with his inbred family. The movie was based off the Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, also known as “The Butcher of Plainfield”. Ed was a murderer and body snatcher. He would exhume dead corpses from resident graveyards, and keep trophies of bones and skin from his victims, and from graveyard inhabitants .Ed would hide behind masks

All types of horror films are designed to unfold our most horrible fears and insecurities that lie deep within. It successfully focuses on the bizarre and illicit side of life that frights us by playing around our nightmares, vulnerability, and fears of the indefinite. However, despite how chaotic and terrifying these films are, the horror-genre still attracts and repel us. We crave to see the numerous film villains overtake our nightmares and then be defeated by a particular “Final Girl” who normally

affected. During the early stages of development, if a child witnesses a distressing event, their personality will be transformed to a personality that does not depict the child at all, but how the child now acts because of that distressing event. Ed Gein, “The Plainfield Butcher,” was a murderer who was “abused by his mother whenever he tried to make friends. Because of this event, as he grew up his personality caused him to be isolated, withdrawn, and antisocial” (Frese, 2014, n.p). The child’s

his father’s requested target. David Berkowitz said, “my dog told me to kill’” (Berkowitz). Berkowitz was later on discovered with schizophrenia, which is an illness that can make someone’s mind to not agree to reality. Other serial killers, like Ed Gein, was inspired in killing people by fictional characters. All of the other serial killers have the same trait, they all seem to be insane towards people. What type of illness do all serial killers contain? They all thrive on hallucinations and

The 1960 the film “Psycho” directed Alfred Hitchcock, which was adapted from Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel of the same name. It drew inspiration from real life serial killer Ed Gein, and is about a man named Norman Bates, who runs a motel owned by his family. In the story, Bates is a victim of his sickly mother’s love. His mother becomes violent when Norman begins to pay less attention to her/her needs. The story is told from three points of view, and leads down a trail of misdirection, embezzlement

general psychiatry and is also a certified forensic psychiatrist. Morrison analyzed infamous serial killers in order to understand their motive for killing along with the process of how they chose victims. This book gave me insight into the life of Ed Gein and how psychosis along with early childhood is influenced his serial killings. It also helped me understand his

Criminal Behavior. My main question I want to focus on is “Why do criminals behave the way they do?” One criminal that I am interested in is Ed Gein. He is known for making things out of dead people’s bodies. For example, he once made a lampshade out of bones and a mask out of the faces of his victims. I first got to know about him from a song called “Nothing to Gein” by Mudvayne. I already knew

Title: The Evolution of serial Killers Introduction: For centuries Stories about Serial killers have graced the covers of newspapers and magazines. Famous stories like “Jack The Ripper” and Edward “Ed” Gein, which influenced many popular films such as Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. There are so many questions surrounding this topic one being: Nature versus Nurture? Is this need to kill a simply male completion in an effort to show status and be “The Alpha Male”? If this is true then