{"id":115307,"date":"2020-11-19T03:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crazy-not-insane-doc-targets-origins-of-serial-killers\/"},"modified":"2020-11-19T03:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:39:37","slug":"crazy-not-insane-doc-targets-origins-of-serial-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crazy-not-insane-doc-targets-origins-of-serial-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Crazy, Not Insane&#8217; doc targets origins of serial killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df35e36f3f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df35e36f3f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crazy-not-insane-doc-targets-origins-of-serial-killers\/#Early_childhood_abuse\" >Early childhood abuse<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crazy-not-insane-doc-targets-origins-of-serial-killers\/#Brain_dysfunction\" >Brain dysfunction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crazy-not-insane-doc-targets-origins-of-serial-killers\/#Psychosis\" >Psychosis<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Crazy, Not Insane&#8217; doc targets origins of serial killers<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        To Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, there\u2019s no such thing as evil.<\/p>\n<p>As a psychiatrist and one of the leading experts on serial killers, she believes people are \u201cabsolutely not\u201d born to be violent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvil is not a scientific term. It\u2019s a religious term,\u201d she says in the HBO documentary about her work called <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/crazy-not-insane\">\u201cCrazy, Not Insane,\u201d<\/a> directed by Alex Gibney, which premieres Wednesday at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Based in New Haven, Conn., the 83-year-old has spent her life uncovering what makes a person become a killer. She\u2019s interviewed and studied more than 100 adult and juvenile capital defendants and serial killers on death row, including Ted Bundy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a choice. There is no reason, in the sense of reasonableness, behind it. It\u2019s a vulnerability,\u201d she told The Post of what makes a slayer. \u201cThere are predictable variables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through years of research, she and her team found the same combination of issues time and time again. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a cocktail for violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Here is her recipe for a cold-blooded killer.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Early_childhood_abuse\"><\/span><strong>Early childhood abuse<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When a person suffers from \u201cearly, ongoing, intolerable abuse\u201d as a child, it alters their brain for the rest of their life, particularly in the way they process emotions and feelings. \u201cBy God, they are different,\u201d said Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>During the first three years of life, a child\u2019s brain grows rapidly, \u201cmaking connections\u201d neurologically, she said. \u201cWe know babies need nurturing if they\u2019re going to grow up to be a normal, empathic, loving human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this damage is visible on the organ itself, causing a degenerative syndrome, like cortical atrophy, and \u201cabnormalities,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p><!--If the slideshow is embedded in another post type add the inline wrapper --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brain_dysfunction\"><\/span><strong>Brain dysfunction<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes, when the abuse is so bad, physical brain damage can h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en to a killer in the making. Other times, the brain can be naturally damaged, as from a tumor, or underdeveloped. This can prevent the brain from tapering down primal urges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe limbic system is often called the reptilian brain, as that\u2019s the part [that deals with] appetite, sexuality, aggression,\u201d she said. There are many connections from this part to the frontal lobe, where humans process executive function and restraint. It\u2019s the part of the brain that tells you not to eat that extra cookie, even though you want it. With killers, this part of the puzzle can be damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who terrorized the town of Rochester in the \u201980s, was a textbook example of this. He suffered tortuous abuse at the hands of his mother. He also had frontal brain damage. Shawcross, who died in 2008, had a cyst and scarring in this area. This \u201cinterrupted\u201d his frontal brain from stopping the urges produced by his limbic system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16644635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"wp-image-16644635 size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped lazyload\" alt=\"Serial killers Arthur Shawcross (left) and Ted Bundy\" width=\"662\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/crazy-not-insane-hbo-shawcross-bundy-split-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/crazy-not-insane-hbo-shawcross-bundy-split-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/crazy-not-insane-hbo-shawcross-bundy-split-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/crazy-not-insane-hbo-shawcross-bundy-split-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=662 662w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/crazy-not-insane-hbo-shawcross-bundy-split-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1324 1324w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Serial killers Arthur Shawcross (left) and Ted Bundy<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Bettmann<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Psychosis\"><\/span>Psychosis<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Other times, this brain dysfunction takes the form of paranoia, dissociation and hallucinations. Many of the killers featured in the documentary were suspected by Lewis to suffer from dissociative identity disorder, otherwise known as multiple personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Though some in her field dispute this diagnosis, Lewis believes it could stem from childhood abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is that when the torment is extraordinary, like a schoolchild recurrently being raped, which happens, and it\u2019s early and ongoing, the child [tends] to space out, and doesn\u2019t do it consciously, as if this was happening to someone else,\u201d she hypothesized.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the suspected killers shown in the film, such as Shawcross, appeared to suffer from this disorder, switching in and out of different personalities as they committed murders and awaited punishment on death row. One such accused man, Johnny Frank Garrett, who was executed in Texas in 1992 for the murder of a nun, didn\u2019t realize he had committed an act of violence because it happened under a \u201cdifferent\u201d personality.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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