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Park Dietz

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[Wikipedia] Park Elliot Dietz is a forensic psychiatrist who has consulted or testified in many of the highest-profile US criminal cases, including those of spousal killer Betty Broderick, mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner, and serial killers Joel Rifkin, Arthur Shawcross, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Kaczynski, Richard

Quotes by Park Dietz

One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students.…

Body

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Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from,…

Actors

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Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day.…

Compelled

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You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind…

Attractive

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Psychiatrists are usually very well imbued with the clinical role, where helping the sick person is the goal. And that's quite incompatible…

Care

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Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for…

Freedom

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With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

Exception

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Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber…

Blood

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We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want…

Affected

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One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and…

Bathroom

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I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Greedy

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Counter to the public's thinking, the celebrities who attract the largest number of stalkers - and typically it's not "if" a celebrity…

Glamorous

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One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There…

Corpses

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Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not…

Anthropologists

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I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and…

End time

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I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering…

Abuse

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