Helen Morrison
Author of My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
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- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Occupations
- forensic psychiatrist
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- Works
- 3
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- 348
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- #68,679
- Rating
- 3.1
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Helen Morrison is a psychiatrist who studies the behaviour of serial killers. Based in Chicago, she is probably best known for her study of John Wayne Gacy, and has spent decades trying to understand what makes serial killers behave the way that they do. I don't envy her this work. I could not deal with the nearness of (mostly) men who kill and torture numerous people.
I don't know what I think about her theory (I am not going to mention it for fear of spoiling someone else's read) about why serial killers kill, or about why they behave the way they do.
Not a great book. Interesting to the die-hard true crime fan, but not enough to keep me reading - I kept putting the book down to do something else, which says a lot about how I felt about reading it.… (more)