DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler
Why do some serial killers enter an insanity defense plea? Inside Bedlam, scene from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1735) (Public Domain)
Feb 3 2024
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Why do some serial killers enter an insanity defense plea?

In my YouTube channel, Micki Pistorius Profiler on Record, (episode 3) I discuss why some serial killers – and other criminals – enter an insanity plea, claiming not to be of sound mind, or to suffer from a mental illness in order to escape prosecution. The secondary gain of escaping criminal liability is a common […]

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I Understand Serial Killers 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
Feb 3 2024
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I Understand Serial Killers

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 […]

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‘The Mentalist’ on a crime scene – hocus pocus or science? The Charmer by John William Waterhouse (1911) (Public Domain)
Feb 3 2024
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‘The Mentalist’ on a crime scene – hocus pocus or science?

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 […]

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My New Best Friend – Serial Killers combating loneliness by keeping bodies in their homes Odd Nerdrum's painting Cannibals (Public Domain)
Feb 3 2024
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My New Best Friend – Serial Killers combating loneliness by keeping bodies in their homes

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 […]

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Heroes & Warriors: Where Psychology Meets Mythology
Dec 16 2023
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Heroes & Warriors: Where Psychology Meets Mythology

A man with a quest is a man on a mission and woe to anyone who interferes! Dr. Micki Pistorius, psychologist and editor of our Premium Ancient-Origins site, fuses her two professions, archaeology and psychology in this webinar.  In the epic Iliad of Homer, Odysseus was considered the wisest of the Achaean Warriors-Kings. Odysseus is an old […]

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The Hearts of Heroes
Dec 16 2023
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The Hearts of Heroes

What can Odysseus teach us about relationships? How can Leonidas, the King Sparta, inspire captains of industry and high flying businessmen? What secrets can the mythological couple, Theseus and Ariadne, reveal about the human brain? Learn lessons of the heart with heroes, warriors and legends of the ancient world to better understand how to navigate the […]

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