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Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides

Understanding Sexual Murder Problems and Approaches The Problem of Definition and Terms Many Seemingly Sexual Murders Are Not Really Sexually Motivated Many Sexual Homicides Are Not Overtly Sexual Distinction between a Sexual Murder and Murder Associated with Sexual Behavior Is Often Blurred Absence of National Crime Statistics on Sexual Murder Practical Impediments to Research Phenomenological-Descriptive vs. Statistical Approaches The First Case of Murder: Forensic vs. Clinical Psychological Approaches Epidemiological Aspects of Homicide: Sexual Murder Must Be Understood in Context Incidence of Crime and Homicide Historical Patterns Age Patterns Additional Findings Victimology: Dynamics of Victim and Offender Comment Forensic Assessment Evaluation of the Sexual Murder Background Psychological Testing Rorschach Test Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)Projective Drawings Bender–Gestalt Personality Inventories Intellectual, Cognitive, and Neuropsychological Assessment Specialized Forensic Tests Revised and Updated Tests Neurodiagnostic and Biological Testing Narcoanalysis Hypnosis Deception Syndromes Malingering Psychometric Assessment of Malingering Pseudomalingering Malingering-by-Proxy Ganser’s Syndrome Rationalization, Justification, and Direct Lying Issues in the Determination of Guilt Eyewitness (and Earwitness) Identification Polygraph Findings False Confessions Crime Scene Behavioral Analysis Application of Findings to Legal Standards The Place of Sexual Murder in the Classification of Crime Theories of Crime Biological Theories Psychological Theories Sociological Theories Classification of Homicide Organic, Toxic, and Paranoid Homicides Organic Disorders Toxic States Paranoid Disorders and Homicide Motivational Spectrum in the Classification of Homicide Social and Environmentally Stimulated Homicides Situational Homicides Impulsive Offenders Who Commit Homicide Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides Sexual Murder in Context Catathymia and Catathymic Crisis Hans W. Maier: The Concept of Catathymia Catathymic Crisis Comment Acute Catathymic Homicides Varying Views of Catathymia and Sudden Violence A Subtype of Episodic Dyscontrol The Role of Inadequacy The Role of Organicity “Affective” Aggression Presence of Dissociation and Trauma Overcontrolled Personalities Revitch and Schlesinger’s Catathymic Process: Acute Catathymic Homicides Sexual Inadequacy Displaced Matricide Sexual Matricide Differential Diagnosis Comment Chronic Catathymic Homicides Literary Illustrations of Catathymia Meloy's Psychodynamic Contributions The Predominance of Depression Catathymia with a Predominant Obsession Stalking and Catathymic Homicide Catathymic Mass Murder Comment Compulsive Homicides in Historical Context Compulsive, Sexual, or Serial Murder?Premodern Examples of Compulsive Homicide Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis Compulsive Homicides in the First Half of the 20th Century Examples from the Latter Half of the 20th Century The Study of Compulsive Homicide in the Modern Era Influence of Investigative Profiling Profiling Basics Crime Scene and Personality Patterns Need for More Research Comment Planned Compulsive Homicides Sadism Psychodynamic View of Sadism Other Views of Sadism Some Empirical Findings Fantasy Sexually Aggressive Fantasies Fantasy and the Ritualistic Offender Compulsion to Kill Murderous Partners and Murderers’ Romantic Partners Killer Partners Killers’ Romantic Partners Comment Unplanned Compulsive Homicides Personality as an Intervening Variable Descriptions of Compulsive Murderers Who Do Not Plan The “Disorganized” Murderer Hazelwood and Warren’s Impulsive Offender Adolescent Offenders Nonrecognition of the Sexual Aspect of Crimes Compulsion Spontaneously Released by Circumstances Breakthrough of Compulsion with Just Slight Stimulation Compulsion Released by Substances Unplanned Ritualistic Murders Differential Diagnosis: Catathymic vs. Compulsive Homicides Acute Catathymic and Unplanned Compulsive Homicides Chronic Catathymic and Planned Compulsive Homicides Theories of the Compulsive Murderer Social Theories Psychological Theories Biological Theories A Look to the Future Prediction and Disposition Predicting Sexual Murder Prediction Based on the Motivational Spectrum Prediction Based on Ominous Signs Childhood Abuse Inappropriate Maternal (Sexual) Conduct Pathological Lying and Manipulation Sadistic Fantasy with a Compulsion to Act Animal Cruelty, Particularly toward Cats Need to Control and Dominate Others Repetitive Firesetting Voyeurism, Fetishism, and Sexual Burglary Unprovoked Attacks on Females, Associated with Generalized Misogynous Emotions Evidence of Ritualistic (Signature) Behavior Immediate Triggers for a Compulsive Murder Disposition and Intervention Comment

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