True Crime Journal

Children and Psychopathy

For many year children who were often lying, manipulating and behaving agressively were considered a result of bad nurture. Howwever, psychologists from London conducted two experiements that proved that psychopathy is a result of not only nurture but also nature. The result: 1% of children are untreatable psychopaths.

This means that typical punishments (staying home and not going to a friend's house, not eating sweets, not using ps etc.) do not work on such children. Doctor Essi Viding argues that the movie "We need to talk about Kevin" is a perfect example of a children who have psychopathy and why we should not blame parents. Of course, the woman in the movie is not an example of a perfect mother. But she was able to raise Kevin's sister who was a good girl.

Box Jellyfish

Australia. Compared to other jellyfish, has brain and eyes. Box jellyfish can move more rapidly than other jellyfish; speeds of up to 6 metres (20 ft) per minute have been recorded. There are about 15 tentacles on each corner. Each tentacle has about 500,000 cnidocytes, containing nematocysts, a harpoon-shaped microscopic mechanism that injects venom into the victim.

"The relatively new discipline of sociobiology argues that psychopathy is not so much a psychiatric disorder as an expression of particular genetically based reproductive strategy. Simply, sociobiologists assert that one of our main roles in life is to reproduce, thereby passing on our genes to the next generation. We can do so in a numbe of ways. One reproductive "strategy" is to have only a few children and to nurture them carefully, thus ensuring that they have a good chance of survival. A different strategy is to have so many children that some are bound to survive, even if they are neglected or abandoned. Psychopaths supposedly adhere to an extreme version of the latter strategy: They reproduce as often as possible and waste little energy worrying about the welfare of their offspring. In this way, they propagate thei gennes with little or no personal investment.

For male psychopaths, the most effective way to havee lots of children is to mate with - and quickly abandon - a large number of women. Unless a psychopath is so attractive or charming that women actively pursue him, he can best accomplish his goal by deception, manipulation, cheating, and misrepresenting his status.

The most beautiful things are made by narcissists, the most interestings things are made by schizoids, the most kind things are made by depressive people, and impossible things are made by psychopaths.

Rasmussen's encephalitis is rare inflammatory neurological disease, characterized by frequent and severe seizures, loss of motor skills and speech, hemiparesis (weakness on one side of the body), encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and dementia. The illness affects a single cerebral hemisphere.

Most Shocking Scientific Experiments

1. UCLA study of schizophrenia. A group of scientists in UCLA University were testing new medications on patients with schizophrenia. The scientists promised to stop the study and return patients back to hospitals if the medications would have a significant side effects. However, it seems that the word “significant” is very subjective - one patieent almost killed his parents, another patient jumped out the window. 

2. Blue/Brown Eyes Experiment. Jane Elliott became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. She divided students in her class in two groups. A group of students with brown eyes and a group with blue eyes. She asked students with brown eyes to sit in the back and students with blue eyes had to sit in the front. The students with blue yes would also get more time for break, better lunches etc. As a result of the experiment, academic performance of students with brown eyes significantly dicreased. 

3. Jail. Long time ago there was a lab in Soviet Union named “Jail”. In this study center scientists were conducting experiemnts on prisoners who were sentenced to death. They used poison, drugs and other methods to test their effectiveness on prisoners. The strongest poison that they used was K-2. According to the witnesses, after injecting K-2, prisoners would become shorter in height, weaker, and silent. In 15 minutes they would die. Inteerestingly, it was impossible to detect K-2 in the organism. 

4. MK-ULTRA. It was an experiment conducted by  the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The goal of the experiement was to find if we can control human consciousness. To find the answer, the scientists were injecting LSD into prostitutes. 

5. Free Will. The experiments conducted by Benjamin Libet showed that the decisions to behave in a particular way are influenced by unconscious process in our brain. Though the experiement is controversial, the scientist managed to prove that “free will” is simply an illusion. 

6. Feeling the Future. In 2010, Daryl Bem, a psychologst, published a study based on 8 years of observations. Bem argued that a person can predict the future. Moreover, the events that havent happened yet influence our behavior in present. 

7. David Reimer. David and his twin brother Brian were referred for circumcision at the age of seven months. The procedure did not go as doctors had planned, and David's penis was burned beyond surgical repair. The doctors chose not to operate on Brian, whose phimosis soon cleared without surgical intervention. The doctor recommended parents to raise David as a girl. He prescribed medications and therapy. Later, it appeared that the doctor was conducting an experiment. He wanted to prove that the gender is influenced by nurture not nature. David found out about the experiment when he was 14 years old. He returned to being male. However, because of the psychological trauma, David committed suicide. 

Hey Hey Hey I'm Back

“I was left without many things like smoking, drinking or getting into a bad company.”

Since the 1930s, Albert Einstein had not been accepting invitations to lectures, but in 1946 he made an exception when he was contacted by representatives of the University of Lincoln in Pennsylvania, which was the first university in America to allow African Americans to receive higher education.

It is known that Einstein condemned manifestations of intolerance, racism, oppression, nationalism, and Zionism. When a woman asked him how he would react to the fact that his daughter decided to marry an African American man, Einstein replied:

Baby Jess

Ladies and Gentlemen, please meet a 21-year old Jess from Florida who lives as an adult baby. Her boyfriend David supports her in everything and plays a role of a caring and loving daddy. The house they live in looks like a normal building where children live. However, a small bed, numerous toys, mobiles and pacifiers belong to Jess. Some people can find it funny and weird but actually this is the way that Jess copies with a psychological trauma caused by sexual abuse in childhood. 

“These games are really the best cure for me, becuase they help me to feel the pureness of my childhood.” 

Sadistic Traits

Sadists view people as object that need to be controlled. These objects are live, have feelings and emotions though they are created by those who control them. 

A sadist wants to become the Master of Life, thus he needs his victim to be alive. Unlike necrophiles who want to destroy life, sadists’ main goal is to feel power, gain control over life. They need to feel superiority over life that depends on them. 

Another important trait that sadists have is that they choose week victims over strong ones as a stimuli. For example, a sadist won’t feel pleasure for hurting a person who is stronger than him because it won’t give a feeling of control. For such individuals, power and superiority are the main goals that they strive to achieve. They despise week people and believe that they are slaves who should obey sadists. 

The biggest fear of such people is a situation that is out of control, that needs creative and new solutions. That’s why they fear life because it is unpredictable. Life is good, but it’s difficult to stick to a plan. The only obvious fact is that all people are mortal. 

Love is also unpredictable. It means having a right to love, to be loved, to make someone fall in love with you etc. Love is always associated with pain and risk: a risk to be abandoned or rejected. That is why sadists are able to love only when the object of their love is fully controlled. 

Aristotle once said that things that should scare us, such as corpses, can delight viewers when they are captured in art works.

Think for yourself - what scenes in ancient literature do we remember and love most? The murder of Agamemnon and the Wrath of Achilles.  Dido on the Funeral Pyre and Caesar's blood. Remember that place at Suetonius, where Caesar's body, with a drooping hand, is carried away on a stretcher? What about Dante’s “Hell”?