Article
Destructive Hostility: The Jeffrey Dahmer Case: A Psychiatric and Forensic Study of a Serial Killer
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
12 p.
Publication Date
12-1-1994
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1097/00000433-199412000-00002
Disciplines
Abstract
We were involved as forensic experts in the case of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. We discuss the scene and victim autopsy findings, with a brief consideration of the basic emotion of hostility. These findings support the thesis that at the basis of this serial killer's behavior were primary unconscious feelings of hate that he had channeled into a sadistic programmed destruction of 17 young men. The interview of the serial killer, the photographic scene documentation, and the autopsy findings stress the ambivalent homosexuality of the killer, his sexual sadism, his obsessive fetishism, and his possible cannibalism and necrophilia.
Citation Information
Jeffrey Jentzen, George Palermo, L. Thomas Johnson, Khang-Cheng Ho, et al.. "Destructive Hostility: The Jeffrey Dahmer Case: A Psychiatric and Forensic Study of a Serial Killer" The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology (1994) ISSN: 0195-7910 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas_johnson/9/
Accepted version. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Vol. 15, No. 4 (December 1994): 283-294. DOI. © 1994 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Used with permission.
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