Top 10 Serial Killers: The Ripper and the Boston Strangler

I’ve been reading some true crime lately, and, as a psychologist who does not usually encounter criminals, I find my interested piqued about what these guys might have had in common. It’s a huge subject, so by confining my comparison to 10, I hope to be better able to identify some key characteristics. I may [...]

True Crime: Because You Loved Me, by M. William Phelps

The drama queen and the sociopath

Because You Loved Me is a detailed case study of different sorts of love, platonic, parental, romantic, and obsessive. It’s easy to predict which type will go wrong. The High Queen of the drama queens, Nicole, falls in a twisted sort of love with macho manipulator Billy, and in [...]