David Gore as He is Revealed in The Serial Killer Whisperer
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David Gore as He is Revealed in The Serial Killer Whisperer
One of the key applications of psychology is in the civil and criminal justice systems. Hugo Munsterberg, a German- American psychologist, is believed to have been the first person to pioneer the application of psychology in research and theories relating to crime. His research formed much of what was later to be regarded as forensic psychology. The research covered false confessions, witness memory, and the role of hypnosis in court proceedings. Over time, the discipline has evolved to include the principles that law enforcement or psychologists could use in the interviewing of suspects and witnesses. Forensic psychology also covers the strategies used in deception and detecting lies while describing the process of assessing criminals for violence and re-offending risks. The overarching aim of the discipline is simply to understand criminal behavior along with the developmental risk factors related to such conduct, psychopathy, and sociopathy being the two most typical of the criminal acts.
Pete Earley’s book The Serial Killer Whisperer recounts the life story of Tony Ciaglia, a man with the extraordinary ability to get serial killers to open up. In 1992, Ciaglia suffered a traumatic brain injury after a freak jet-ski accident. In spite of being pronounced clinically dead thrice while on the way to the hospital, he managed to pull through. The incident left him with a proneness to uncontrollable behavior, angry rages, depression and obsessions, a condition that had him heavily medicated. Ciaglia is seen to question invariably the reason why he survived the accident, and it is not until later that he comes to the realization of the possible reason why. As a form of therapy, Ciaglia is asked to take up