DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler

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Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of serial killers: Part III
Aug 1 2024
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Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of serial killers: Part III

In the previous two articles of this trilogy I explained how serial killers’ fixations in Freud’s psychosexual developmental phases led to the acting out of their fantasies on crime scenes.  Yet the serial killers are not unique in developing subconscious sexual and aggressive fantasies, as Melanie Klein theorizes that all children could have them.  Childhood […]

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Evolution on the Origin of Serial Killers
Jul 12 2024
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Evolution on the Origin of Serial Killers

During the Middle Ages, the gruesome discovery of sporadic mutilated corpses of villagers, and the telltale footprints of a hound on the scene, raised the spectre of a werewolf at large. No-one in the village would ever have suspected that it could have been the cobbler’s son – an as yet unidentified serial killer – […]

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Anti-Stalking Laws – Lightweight Deterrents?
Jun 6 2024
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Anti-Stalking Laws – Lightweight Deterrents?

The series Baby Reindeer spotlights the predicament of thousands of victims of stalkers, who find themselves helpless against an unsolicited onslaught of a stalker. Stalking is a global phenomenon.  It was only in the late 1990’s in California that formal stalking laws were first promulgated, but it took years to catch on in other countries, […]

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Why do Serial Killers return to the Scene of a Crime?
May 8 2024
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Why do Serial Killers return to the Scene of a Crime?

The aphorism that a criminal always ‘returns to a crime scene’ features in literature in Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment  of 1866, Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet 1887 and in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Links 1923.  Do serial killers return to their crime scenes? Yes, in my experience they do, for various different […]

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