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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
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,907 posts)Powell was definitely the dominant in that pair, and there's lots of evidence to prove it, aside from Wambaugh's dramatization.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)IT's like a psychiatric smogasboard.
And all without benefit of as much as an intake interview with patient
femmedem
(8,196 posts)especially since Tamerlan was a boxer.
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Simpleton George W had mastermind Cheney.