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The Complexity of Serial Killers

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According to Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach, a serial murderer is defined as an individual who kills two or more victims in separate events. Emma Fridel and James Fox have broken serial killers into three groupings: “those who killed two victims, those who killed three to seven (whom the researchers termed the typical serial killers), […]

Repression vs Suppression as Trauma Responses

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Trauma can affect the body in ways that are often unbeknownst to those who are suffering. The Body Keeps Score by van der Kolk highlights just how the mind represses memories of childhood trauma and how it can manifest into subconscious actions. Van der Kolk emphasizes this notion through the description of his patient Marilyn’s […]