One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response.… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at. — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible with the… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on.… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want to propagate… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful. — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Counter to the public's thinking, the celebrities who attract the largest number of stalkers - and typically it's not "if" a celebrity has a… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
