Category: Pop Culture & Mental Health
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Perceptions Around the ‘Joker’ Movie
In the weeks leading up to its premiere, this R-rated origin story provoked feelings of alarm, caution, and fear as many were worried for the potential of copycat crimes, with many referencing the man who conducted a mass shooting at the 2012 screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. The theater where the…
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The Abnormal Psychology of Nannie Doss
“Moments before she appeared on TV to be interviewed, the cameraman suggested Nannie remove her glasses and smile for the camera, quipping, ‘You might get another husband if you look nice.’ She replied, ‘Ain’t that the dying truth,’ and then cracked up at her own pun. She was Oklahoma’s biggest news story of 1954 and…
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The Curious Fascination with Serial Killers
With the recent release of the Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, as well as Netflix’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes – we, as humans, have an obvious fascination with serial killers, both in fact and fiction. Serial killers have been a…
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