Psychopaths and Psychotics

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Psychopaths and Psychotics

• Inside the Criminal Mind

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Psychopaths and Psychotics
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Psychopaths and Psychotics

• Mental link to criminal behavior suggested by
  Sigmund Freud.
• Austrian psychiatrist who created psych-analysis
  in 1880s.
• First to identify psychopaths.

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Psychopaths and Psychotics

• The human personality has three parts
• Id
• Ego
• Super-ego

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The ID

• The primary personality.
• -Displayed in infants to about 4 years of age.
• -The I want part of the personality.
• -Instant gratification.
• -Survival instinct or fight or flight instinct.

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The Ego

• The part of the personality that begins to evolve
  at about 4 years of age until 12.
• The realization that you arent alone. You have
  to wait sometimes for gratification.

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The Ego

• Realization that punishment can happen for bad
  behavior.
• Good behavior can be rewarded too.

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The Super-Ego

• Starts evolving at about 13 and continues through
  life.
• Developing morals and empathy.
• Empathy is the highest form of morality to Freud.

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The parts of the personality

• When all three parts of the personality are
  aligned you have a normal human.

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The balance of id, ego, super-ego

• SOMETIMES when the three parts get out of
  alignment, criminal behavior can happen.

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Psychotics

• The ID dominates the personality.
• IMPORTANT Not all psychotics commit crime!
• Murder, assault, theft can happen in psychotic
  episodes.

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What can be done to help psychotics?

• Drugs that help chemical imbalances such as
  lithium have been shown to help.

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Criminals who have committed acts while in
psychotic episodes.

• Charles Earl Simmants
• Charles McElvie
• Scot Baldwin
• Thomas Jackson

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Neurotics as Criminals

• IMPORTANT Not all neurotics are criminals!
• Behaviors of seeking control can lead to crimes
  like spousal abuse, child abuse, animal abuse,
  murder, etc.

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Neurotic or Psychopathic?

• John Joubert did his crimes in Nebraska 1982
  1983.

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Psychopaths

• Also called sociopaths.
• The super-ego dominates the personality creating
  a different sense of morality.
• The one type of personality Freud said was
  unchangeable. No punishment will ever make them
  stop.

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What do we know about psychopaths?

• Imprinted at birth.
• Mother didnt want them.
• Didnt bond as babies or children.
• Had a fascination with death and pain as children.

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Characteristics of Psychopaths

• Extremely high intelligence.
• Low emotional stimuli. No empathy.
• Control is vitally important.
• Emotional and physical.

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Characteristics of Psychopaths

• Start with animal abuse.
• Practice makes perfect for their crimes.
• Feel justification for their acts.
• Collection of trophies.
• Leave calling cards for authorities.

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Characteristics of Psychopaths

• TEND to be loners.
• Crimes begin in their 20s 30s.
• Tend to be white.
• Not all are serial killers.
• Female psychopaths?