In this memoir, a forensic psychiatrist chronicles her work with more than 80 serial killers and her thoughts on what compels them. Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is more than that. She is one of the world’s leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours alone in rooms with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers’ psyches in ways no profiler ever has before. In My Life among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled the Mad Biter, Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims’ body parts, stalked Dr. Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She did the last interview with Ed Gein, who was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards and gave her his paintings as presents. Then there was Atlanta child killer Wayne Williams; rapist turned murderer Bobby Joe Long; Fred and Rosemary West, who killed girls and women in their Gloucester “House of Horrors”; and Brazil’s deadliest killer of children, Marcelo Costa de Andrade. Dr. Morrison has received hundreds of letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluated crime scenes, testified at their trials, and studied photos of the gruesome carnage. She has interviewed the families of the victims—and the spouses and parents of the killers—to gain a deeper understanding of the killer’s environment and the public persona they adopt. She has also studied serial killers throughout history and shows how this is not a recent phenomenon with psychological autopsies of the fifteenth-century French war hero Gilles de Rais, the sixteenth-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, H.H. Holmes of the late nineteenth-century, and Albert Fish of the Roaring Twenties. Through it all, Dr. Morrison’s goal has been to discover the reasons serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future. Her provocative conclusions will stun you. Praise for My Life Among the Serial Killers “A scary piece of work, with even scarier implications.” —Kirkus Reviews “A profoundly enlightening book. Morrison provides startling insights into what factors breed serial killers, and she avoids the broad generalizations that make other books of the topic seem slick and superficial. . . . This is an absorbing, disturbing book that makes it clear just how much we have yet to learn.” —Booklist

Featuring "psychological autopsies" of serial killers from the Middle Ages to today, a pioneer female forensic psychiatrist probes the minds of murdering psychopaths in her one-of-a-kind memoir.

Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is much more than that. She is one of the country's leading experts on serial killers, and has spent as many as four hundred hours alone in a room with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers' psyches in ways no profiler before ever has. In My Life Among the Serial Killers, Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled the Mad Biter, Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims' body parts, stalked Dr. Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She did the last interview with Ed Gein, who was the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards and gave her his paintings as presents. Then there was Atlanta child killer Wayne Williams; rapist turned murderer Bobby Joe Long; England's Fred and Rosemary West, who killed girls and women in their "House of Horrors"; and Brazil's deadliest killer of children, Marcelo Costa de Andrade. Dr. Morrison has received hundreds of letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluated crime scenes, testified at their trials, and studied photos of the gruesome carnage. She has interviewed the families of the victims -- and the spouses and parents of the killers -- to gain a deeper understanding of the killer's environment and the public persona he adopts. She has also studied serial killers throughout history and shows how this is not a recent phenomenon with psychological autopsies of the fifteenth-century French war hero Gilles de Rais, the sixteenth-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, H. H. Holmes of the late ninteenth century, and Albert Fish of the Roaring Twenties. Through it all, Dr. Morrison has been on a mission to discover the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future. Her provocative conclusions will stun you.

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France in the period from 1815 to 1855 could be seen as the half-century of plaster. After the French Revolution, plaster was used for a great variety of things: building, moulding, sculpting, decorating. Cheap and easy to use, plaster was everywhere, from Napoleon’s death mask to household ornaments, from walls to elaborate mouldings. Plaster was king – but a fragile king that easily crumbled and fell apart. The age of plaster was also the reign of the ephemeral and the transient, the vulgar and the eclectic, and the men and women of the time struggled to maintain stability and continuity with the past. In the space of a few decades, no fewer than seven political regimes succeeded one another. Plaster – symbol of the ephemeral, the flaking and the vulgar – is the material which defines the first half of the nineteenth century. Written with his characteristic brilliance and eye for unconventional topics, Alain Corbin’s highly original exploration of the role of plaster in history will be of interest to a wide readership.

Having interviewed some of the most notorious killers in the world, the authors produce controversial theories as to why people commit multiple murders. Are serial killers born? Does child abuse really play a part in the formation of a killer's psyche? Are serial killers neurologically different from the rest of humanity? The authors provide their opinions on these and many other questions in their detailed portrayal of the 21 murderers featured in the book.

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" Je suis ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui une "profileuse". Depuis trente ans, j'étudie les mécanismes intimes les plus pervers des meurtriers en série. Je sillonne le pays pour découvrir qui ils sont, où ils se cachent et pourquoi ils tuent. C'est un long pèlerinage solitaire. J'ai parfois le sentiment d'en savoir trop, mais le plus souvent je crains de ne jamais en savoir assez. " La presse américaine a baptisé Helen Morrison " la véritable Clarice Starling ". A la demande du FBI ou d'avocats, elle a passé des centaines d'heures à discuter en tête à tête avec près de quatre-vingts serial killers, dont certains autrement plus dangereux qu'un personnage de fiction tel que le docteur Hannibal Lecter. Elle dévoile ici les secrets de ses expertises en évoquant une vingtaine de grands tueurs en série. Elle rapporte ainsi ses conversations avec Ed Gein, qui inspira Psychose à Hitchcock, et Robert Berdella, dont les méthodes de torture furent plus atroces encore que celles imaginées dans Seven. Elle explore les tréfonds de la " maison des horreurs " du couple West. Elle raconte son étrange relation avec John Wayne Gacy, cet Américain qui aimait se déguiser en clown et assassina trente-trois jeunes gens. De ce dernier Helen Morrison conserve le cerveau dans sa cave. Peut-être un jour livrera-t-il tous ses secrets, car au bout de tant d'années d'" intimité " avec les tueurs en série se pose toujours la même question: devient-on ou naît-on serial killer ? Les éléments de réponse apportés par la profileuse surprendront le lecteur après qu'il aura parcouru une galerie de portraits qui sont comme autant de romans noirs.

Helen Morrison, surnommée " la véritable Clarice Starling " par la presse américaine, dévoile ici les secrets de ses expertises pour le FBI ou des avocats en évoquant une vingtaine de grands serial killers, dont certains tout aussi dangereux que le docteur Lecter. Une galerie de portraits qui sont comme autant de romans noirs, avec toujours la même question devient-on ou naît-on tueur en série ?