The Old Bailey Criminal Court by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin (1808) (Public Domain). In order to testify on the behaviour of a serial killer, a forensic psychologist has to understand their behaviour
I have often been taken to task regarding my remark that I understand serial killers and this has often been interpreted by sensation-seeking journalists that I ‘agree’ with their reasons for killing, or have sympathy for their cause. On my YouTube series, Micki Pistorius Profiler on Record, (episode 2) I clarify that remark once and […]
The Charmer by John William Waterhouse (1911) (Public Domain)
The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung defined intuition as “perception via the unconscious”: using sense-perception only as a starting point, to bring forth ideas, images, possibilities, ways out of a blocked situation, by a process that is mostly unconscious. I prefer the term subconscious, because unconscious sounds like someone has been hit over the head and […]
Odd Nerdrum's painting Cannibals (Public Domain)
I have often over and over emphasized that serial killers are normal human beings and underneath their bizarre behaviour lie very normal human needs. Permit me as a profiler and psychologist to explain one of the most disturbing behaviours that some of them exhibit – Why do serial killers keep bodies of their victims in […]
Serial killers were not spawned by aliens, they are not an alien species, nor are they comic book superheroes, or superhumans or AI created monsters in video games – they are ordinary people, they were born and raised by parents – regular people – your neighbours, your family, someone on the School Parents’ Committee… A […]
In 1994 Micki Pistorius obtained her Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a psychologist. Her thesis covered the clinical topic: “A cross evaluation of theories regarding the Oedipus complex by example of a case study”. Upon registration, she was immediately appointed as the first psychological […]