We have already seen from numerous other articles that I have previously published on this site that there is an association between the early life experience of interpersonal childhood trauma and the development of violent and aggressive tendencies which may … Read the rest
Dangerous And Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD)
In 1999 the U.K. government introduced a new concept in relation to personality disorders (which, as we know, are much more likely to occur in individuals who have suffered extreme and repetitive interpersonal childhood trauma) called DANGEROUS AND SEVERE PERSONALITY … Read the rest
How We Are Influenced By Our Unconscious Childhood Memories
As Alice Miller (1933-2010) states in her seminal book Free From Lies children learn by imitating their parents and much of this imitating is due to unconscious learning.
To illustrate this Miller refers to a study in which mothers … Read the rest
Effects Of Adolf Hitler’s Childhood
In the 1940s, at the request of the Office of Strategic Services (a former incarnation of the Criminal Intelligence Agency (CIA), a psychiatrist by the name of Walter Langer produced a psychological profile of Hitler, including details about his childhood. … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma Increases Risk Of Being Both Victim And Perpetrator Of Crime And Violence
Research shows that the more ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES an individual suffered in their early life, the greater their risk of becoming the victim of crime and/or the perpetrator of crime in early life.
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, as defined by … Read the rest
Often Aggressive? Is Your Sensorimotor System Primed To Deal With Threat?
Are You Easily Provoked Into Angry And Aggressive Behaviour?
After my mother threw me out of her house when I was thirteen years old and I was reluctantly taken in by my father and step-mother (which I have written … Read the rest
Antisocial Personality Disorder – A Psychodynamic Explanation
Antisocial Personality Disorder And The Early Life Of Sufferers :
According to Meroy (1988), those who go on to develop antisocial personality disorder as adults have frequently experienced a dysfunctional relationship with their mothers during infancy, including a failure … Read the rest
Effects Of Repressed Anger Towards Parents
What Are The Effects Of Repressed Anger Towards Parents?
If our parent/s caused us significant psychological suffering when we were growing up, we may have built up a great deal of anger towards them, but we may, too, have repressed … Read the rest
Characteristics Of Perpetrators Of Domestic Violence.
Domestic Violence And Children :
We have seen in other articles that I have published on this site that children who grow up in households in which domestic violence is prevalent (e.g. growing up in a household in which the … Read the rest
Expressing Childhood Trauma Through Externalizing Behaviours
Externalizing Behaviour :
Have you ever smashed a piece of crockery or something similar out of anger or frustration? (I know I have.) If so, you were using what psychologists term an externalizing behaviour.
Such behaviours are an expression of … Read the rest
Brains Of Children Exposed To Domestic Violence Affected In Similar Way To Exposure To Combat
A study carried out at University College London (UCL) has found that when a child is continually exposed to domestic violence, such as the father regularly beating the mother, their brains are negatively affected in a similar way to … Read the rest
Indirect Abuse: Effects On Children Of Witnessing Domestic Violence.
Domestic violence often involves a man physically abusing a woman on repeated occasions (although it can, of course, involve a woman assaulting a man or a partner assaulting a same-sex partner in the case of gay relationships). In this … Read the rest
Possible Childhood Characteristics of Future Serial Killers
Research has demonstrated that many serial killers have much in common when it comes to their childhood experiences. Below, I provide a list of the common characteristics they may sometimes share. It goes without saying, however, that people with … Read the rest
Domestic Violence And Its Direct And Indirect Effect On Children
Domestic violence can affect children in two ways: DIRECTLY and INDIRECTLY. Let’s look at each of these two categories:
DIRECTLY :
– the violence is DELIBERATELY aimed at the child with the INTENTION of causing him/her harm
INDIRECTLY … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma : Early Signs of Psychopathy
Child Psychopaths
First, it is important to state that diagnosing childhood psychological disturbance is fraught with difficulties as, once the child enters adolescence, behavioural problems are very far from uncommon, especially irritability, mood fluctuations, boundary testing/defiance and breaking social rules.… Read the rest
