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Jeffery Dahmer Flashcards

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Premorbid Functioning

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Early fascination with dead insects, animals, and other organisms:
-Collect the entrails of dead animals he found
-Disemboweled and decapitated a dead dog

Fascinated with the process of decomposition/how things worked underneath the skin

Bone collecting beginning around age 4:
Bones in crawl space/Pet cemetery in yard
-“Fiddlesticks”
-Passive parental reinforcement

Did not enjoy the suffering of animals

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Social Deficits (Father’s report)

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-Poor eye contact
-Wooden facial expressions
-Held body stiffly
-Trouble interacting with other children
-Was emotionally distant

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Social Deficits (Dahmer’s report)

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-social life was beyond my grasp
-when children liked him, he didn’t know why
-could not formulate a plan for winning children’s affection
-did not know how things worked with other people
-couldn’t make other people seem less strange and unknowable

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Psychopathy Theory

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-Animal dissection dismemberment
-Inability to process particular aspects of social information

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Asperger’s Disorder Theory

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-Social information processing problems
-Few friendships
-Circumscribed interests

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Asperger’s Disorder Theory

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-Social information processing problems
-Few friendships
-Circumscribed interests

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Attachment style

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Disorganized attachment from neglect and abandonment

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Dahmer’s Early Environmental Factors

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  1. Parental neglect
  2. Resource scarcity
  3. Maternal psychopathology
  4. Geographic instability
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Parental Neglect

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Father was under-involved and often absent from the home

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Resource Scarcity

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Jeffrey had to share sparse attention with his brother (favored child)

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Maternal psychopathology

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Mother repeatedly hospitalized for psychiatric reasons (depression and suicidal ideation)

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Geographic instability

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Between ages 6 and 8 the family moved 3 times, often isolated and regarded as odd by other children

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Associated attachment problems

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-Abandonment fears
-Emotional regulation problems (e.g., inability to self-soothe) ~ Shy but prone to anger outbursts, particularly toward authority figures
-Negative/skewed self-other view
-Social rejection

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Adolescent Peer Relations

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-Self-identified as outcast
-Approach-avoidant pattern
-Prankster/Class-clown

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Self-identified as outcast

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-No social or familial identification
-Social withdrawal/No genuine relationships

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Approach-avoidant pattern

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Active in extra-curricular activities (e.g., tennis)

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Prankster/Class-clown

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-Drinking/ISU
-Patronizing patrons

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Notable adolescent events

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  1. National Honor Society photobombing
  2. Chalk outlines
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Ambivalent homosexuality

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Experienced his homosexual urges as wrong

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Early sexual experiences

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-Age 14 – fondling/kissing a boy
-Age 15 – display manikin

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increasingly aggressive twinge to sexual fantasy

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Lustful domination of others, which perhaps stemmed from intense loneliness, rage towards others, and social anxiety

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Early Sexual Development

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-Ambivalent homosexuality
-Early sexual experiences
-There was an increasingly aggressive twinge to sexual fantasy

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The nature of fantasy

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-Wish-fulfillment
-Human capacity for problem-solving

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The jogger fantasy

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-he imagined he would meet a young man who was jogging, but he would reject his advances
-formulated a plan where he hid in the bushes, would leap out, slug him with a bat, and drag his unconscious body off into the woods

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What was a common theme in his sexual fantasies?

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A common theme in his sexual fantasy was possessing a totally compliant, unconscious lover, someone who would never leave his side.

-Perhaps due to self-esteem issues, Jeffery fantasies did not involve him successfully courting a partner but rather having to take one by force
-Also possible that rage towards others whom he felt were out of reach fueled aggression within his sexual fantasies

In any case, the repeated pairing of sex and aggression may have increased his inclination towards aggression through habituation

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What was going on in Jeffery’s life during Steven Hicks?

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  1. (very public) Parental divorce around age 18:
    -Escalating marital dysfunction
    -Vicious custody battle over his brother David (12)
  2. Increasing self-destructive behaviors
    -Alcohol use, depression, social withdrawal
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Steven Hicks

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-the 1st victim
-Jeffery was home alone for weeks - did not want to be abandoned
-he was a hitchhiker, wanted to hangout, likely not gay
-Lured him
-murdered him by hitting him with a barbell (personal)
-Disposed of his body in the pet cemetery

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Steven Hicks

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-the 1st victim
-Jeffery was home alone for weeks - did not want to be abandoned
-he was a hitchhiker, wanted to hangout, likely not gay
-Lured him
-murdered him by hitting him with a barbell (personal)
-Disposed of his body in the pet cemetery

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Life after high school

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-attempts to integrate into society
-attended college but quickly flunked out
-Joins Army, but discharged due to routine intoxication
-Spotty job history
-Mostly unskilled labor and technical work (notably, held a job as a phlebotomist)
-Maintains employment for 7 years at the Ambrosia Chocolate Company
-Moves into grandmother’s basement (1982 – 1988)

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Some criminal behavior due to paraphilia

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-Arrested for exhibitionism (masturbating in front of 12 yo boy), confessed to the incident and 5 other episodes
-Somsack Sinthasomphone

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Homosexual activity without violence

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-Involved a lure and sedation with drugs
-More than sex (laid on top of them, felt their heartbeat, listened - attachment problems, feeling of safety, about the warmth of another person)

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Attempted to exhume a body from a cemetery

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Scanned obituaries and visited funeral homes

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Attempted to exhume a body from a cemetery

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Scanned obituaries and visited funeral homes

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What happened that broke the latency phase?

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-he had 9 years of no murdering
-Loses job (fired for tardiness & absenteeism, getting fired was a good reason to kill himself)
-Decreased personal hygiene; monetary troubles [Exacerbation of general dysfunction and psychopathology (alcohol, drugs, depression)]

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Abstinence violation (2nd murder)

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-Steven Tuomi - 26 - September, 1987
-Blacks out and awakes on top of Mr. Tuomi’s already dead body
-“after the second time [killing someone]… It went out of control…”
-now he goes on his spree

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What was the function of Dahmer’s behavior

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-Pliant lover who does not leave - attachment related
-Lacks the cognitive capacity to appraise him
-Love more so than lust (Heart beats, bodily warmth)

-violence not tied to sexual arousal, nor was death
-Grief and loss of the love object
“it was better to have them dead than have them leave”
-Bodily incorporation (BTW – supernatural ideation)
“I suppose in an odd way it made me feel as if they were more part of me”
-Experimental lobotomies

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Experimental Lobotomies

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-fill a syringe with saline solution and inject it into their brains
-allowed the individual to be brain dead, but alive
-unsuccessful, worked for a few days and then they died

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Were there undertones of anger/resentment?

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-not really
-Ambivalent about his homosexuality
-Targeted flamboyantly gay men (the murders were rooted in unconscious hate of his victims)
-They were the result of his “ambivalent homosexuality”

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Konerak Sinthasomphone

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-this kid got out, found the police and Jeffery was able to convince the police that this child was under his care and he then became a victim

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Axis I: Diagnosis

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-Polysubstance Dependence
-Major Depressive Disorder, chronic, severe
-Sexual Paraphilia

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Axis II: Diagnosis

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Borderline Personality Disorder, antisocial features

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Borderline Personality

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  1. Profound fears of abandonment (real of imagined)
  2. Interpersonal relationships that are intense and unstable that alternate between idealization and devaluation
  3. Identity disturbance characterized by a highly unstable sense of self or markedly disturbed self-image
  4. Impulsive behavior in at least two categories
    Substance abuse, unsafe sexual behavior
  5. Recurrent self-harm or suicidal behavior
    1,4,5 really describe him
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How many people did Dahmer kill total?

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17

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Graphical Case Formulation

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-graphically represent how details align with each other for a specific person/case
-rectangle represent factual clinical data
-circles represent explanatory variable (idea) as to why these things are factual

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