Serial killers : the psychosocial development of humanity's worst offenders / by William M. Harmening, M.A., Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Benedictine University, Springfield, Illinois, Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, Illinois.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Introduction -- Peering into the Mind of Evil -- 2. Where it All Begins -- The Role of Attachment in Infancy -- 3. Learning to Feel -- The Role of Moral Development in Early to Middle Childhood -- 4. Who Am I? -- The Role of Identity Formation During Adolescence (Part I) -- 5. Closing The Gap -- The Role of Identity Formation During Adolescence (Part II) -- 6. Criminal Beginnings -- A Killer Is Born -- 7. David Berkowitz: The Son of Sam -- An Ego-Directed Killer, Subtype: Deficient Sexual Self -- 8. Charles Manson -- An Ego-Directed Killer, Subtype: Deficient Social Self -- 9. Eric Rudolph: God's Crusader -- An Ego-Directed Killer, Subtype: Hyper-Ideological Self -- 10. Theodore "Ted" Bundy: The Face Of Evil -- An Opportunistic Killer -- 11. Edmund Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer -- A Symbolic Killer -- 12. The Zodiac Killer -- A Lingering Mystery -- 13. Intervention Strategies -- Changing a Killer's Course Before They Kill.

Whether it be Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century England or Ted Bundy in 1970s America, the public has always been fascinated by the criminal offender type known as the serial killer. Professionals continue to speculate and develop new theories about their identity decades after their crimes ended. But what is it that causes such evilness in individuals that causes them to take an innocent life, not once but multiples times, and for no apparent reason beyond their own perverse psychological gratification? This fascinating book explores this question by looking at the psychosocial determinan.

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