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Tag: Psychopathology

  • Abnormal Psychology of Rosemary West

    Abnormal Psychology of Rosemary West

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    Historically, there’s been a struggle to comprehend the origins of female violence, with research painting female serial killers as reluctant sidekicks or psychotic femme fatales. Most research on serial killers suggest that only male serial killers murder out of sadistic, sexual motivations; and that when paired with a female partner, the woman is usually the…

  • The Abnormal Psychology of Elizabeth Bathory

    The Abnormal Psychology of Elizabeth Bathory

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    Elizabeth Bathory is special in that she is the only known female sexual sadistic serial killer without a dominant male partner – to this day, more than four hundred years later. She started on her own with her husband away at war, learned additional battlefield torture techniques from him when he was home visiting, and…

  • Women Who Kill: The Blood Countess

    Women Who Kill: The Blood Countess

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    She’s considered the first “real” female serial killer– one who killed for sadistic, sexual, hedonistic lust instead of political or personal power. She’s been memorialized, sexualized and vampirized since the discovery of her trial records in the 1720s; and has inspired ten bloody horror films, eight black metal band names, and numerous legends and folklores. An…