My student, an English-psychology double major, is exploring if the depiction of psychopathic killers in dramas like “Psycho,” “Silence of the Lambs,” “Dexter” and “Gone Girl” is accurate–and, more interestingly, what are fascination with such stories tells us about ourselves.
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Why Literary Psychopaths Fascinate Us
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged antisocial personality disorder, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Ed Gein, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Jeff Lindsay, Psycho, psychopathy, Robert Bloch, Silence of the Lambs, slasher lit, Ted Bundy, Thomas Harris Comments closed
