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My Life Among the Serial Killers
Helen Morrison
Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
Avon
February 2005
On Sale: January 26, 2005
304 pages ISBN: 0060524081 EAN: 9780060524081 Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For most of her professional life as a forensic psychiatrist
with a law degree, Dr. Helen Morrison has been on a mission
to discover (or at least lay the groundwork to discover) the
reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder. Many law
enforcement officials say they have become hardened to
killings. This is something Dr. Morrison will not allow
herself to do. "It won't work if I treat a murder as through
it is anything routine. I have to keep my emotions
completely open in order to advance my theories and help
eradicate the phenomenon of serial killing," says Dr. Morrison. This will be a one-of-a-kind memoir by a female forensic
psychiatrist who has profiled 80 seial killers in nearly
thirty years of work. Some of her profiling-with killers
including Richard Macek (known as the Mad Biter), Ed Gein
(the inspiration for Hitchcock's Psycho), John Wayne Gacy
(upon whom she performed an autopsy as well), Wayne Williams
and others-involved 400 hours of interviews. (In fact, she
was first to profile serial killers using methods of
forensic psychiatry.) She will also provide "psychological
autopsies"of serial killers throughout history, from the
15th century through today, demonstrating that this is not a
recent phenomenon and these cases help us better understand
the serial killers of today. Dr. Morrison will write the stories of her work with these
killers as she takes us inside the interview rooms and
pushes the killers until they break and reveal their true
natures. She takes us out into the field and into the crime
scenes as she struggles to profile a killer. The dramatic
stories also provide her with the opportunity to explain her
theories as to why they do what they do (and it's not, she
says, because they were abused as children). While she's not
an FBI agent, she has been hired to work on a number of
their cases, as well as with other state and city organizations. At the end of the day, she goes home to her husband and two
children in a quiet suburb of Chicago. Neither her children
or her neighbors know what she does.
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