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cali

(114,904 posts)
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:19 AM Apr 2013

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Dylan Klebold, the depressed senior at Columbine High School, had Eric Harris. Washington, D.C., Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo had John Allen Muhammad. And just last week at the Boston Marathon bombings, suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Klebold, Malvo and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev all might be seen as more passive teenagers who were attached to more assertive mentors whose actions had deadly consequences, according to mental health experts.

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"Very often, these are pairs of perpetrators, one dominant figure who has psychopathic tendencies and the other a dependent figure," said Dr. Igor Galynker, director of the Family Center for Bipolar in the psychiatry department at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

"It's not accidental," he said of the attraction to the stronger figure. "But it's almost opportunistic in the negative."

Attachment issues and the anatomy of the immature teenage brain can create a killer, according to Galynker.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/boston-marathon-bomb-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-teen-brain/story?id=19019227#.UXaJpEqsp7k

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This is for onenote: (Original Post) cali Apr 2013 OP
That dynamic was also evident with Leopold and Loeb, I think. nt woo me with science Apr 2013 #1
Or Powell & Youngblood, the 'onion field' killers Cirque du So-What Apr 2013 #2
that is an excellent article cali. thanks. nt seabeyond Apr 2013 #3
hmm back in Jan it was SSRIs that caused COlumbine HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #4
The section on temporal lobe damage and unrelenting dark, evil thoughts was also interesting femmedem Apr 2013 #5
And Dick Cheney had George Bush. I'll be damned if that doesn't make sense! 11 Bravo Apr 2013 #6
*win* Voice for Peace Apr 2013 #7
Backwards. eomer Apr 2013 #8

Cirque du So-What

(25,907 posts)
2. Or Powell & Youngblood, the 'onion field' killers
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:37 AM
Apr 2013

Powell was definitely the dominant in that pair, and there's lots of evidence to prove it, aside from Wambaugh's dramatization.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
4. hmm back in Jan it was SSRIs that caused COlumbine
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:50 AM
Apr 2013

IT's like a psychiatric smogasboard.

And all without benefit of as much as an intake interview with patient

femmedem

(8,196 posts)
5. The section on temporal lobe damage and unrelenting dark, evil thoughts was also interesting
Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:53 AM
Apr 2013

especially since Tamerlan was a boxer.

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