My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World′s Most Notorious Murderers - Softcover

Morrison, Helen; Goldberg, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047086978X ISBN 13: 9780470869789

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Synopsis

 

 

Helen Morrison produces controversial theories as to why people commit multiple murders, having interviewed some of the most notorious killers in the world.  Are serial killers born?   Does child abuse really play a part in the formation of a killer′s psyche?  Are serial killers neurologically different from the rest of humanity?  Helen Morrison provides her opinions on these and many other questions in her detailed portrayal of the 21 murderers featured in the book.

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About the Author

HELEN. MORRISOIN, M.D., is certified by the Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry. She is also a certified forensic psychiatrist. She is the editor or coauthor of four academic books, as well as the author or coauthor of more than 125 published articles in her field. Dr. Morrison has worked with both national and international law enforcement, and has made presentations in more than fifteen countries. She lives in Chicago with her husband and children.

HAROLD GOLDBERG has written for the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

Morrison s ultimate quest is to build a firm body of evidence which establishes why serial killers kill. The Times

the pioneer profiler of serial murderers. Irish Independent

To judge by appearances Helen Morrison has a very ordinary life, but behind the façade her life is as dangerous as it is fascinating. Dr Morrison is one of the world s leading experts on serial killers, and has spent over four hundred hours alone in rooms with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers psyches in ways no profiler has ever done before. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you ve ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.

In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison tell of her encounters with, amongst others,

• Rosemary West, who helped Fred West kill girls and women in their Gloucester House of Horrors
• Richard Otto Macek, The Mad Biter , who chewed on his victims body parts.
• Ed Gem, the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock s Psycho.
• John Wayne Gacy, the clown–obsessed killer of young men.
• Atlanta child killer Wayne Williams
• Bobby Joe Long, the Classified Ad Murderer .
• Brazil s deadliest child murderer, Marcelo Costa de Andrade.

Dr. Morrison has received hundreds of letters from killers, read their diaries, evaluated crime scenes, interviewed the families of the victims as well as the spouses and parents of the killers to gain a deeper understanding of the killer s persona. She has also studied the problem historically by conducting psychological autopsies on some of histories most notorious killers all to discover the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future.

Her provocative conclusions will stun you.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047086978X
• ISBN 13: 9780470869789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288