title: Destructive hostility: the Jeffrey Dahmer case. A psychiatric and forensic study of a serial killer.
abstract: We were involved as forensic experts in the case of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. We discuss the scene and victim autopsy findings, with a brief consideration of the basic emotion of hostility. These findings support the thesis that at the basis of this serial killer's behavior were primary unconscious feelings of hate that he had channeled into a sadistic programmed destruction of 17 young men. The interview of the serial killer, the photographic scene documentation, and the autopsy findings stress the ambivalent homosexuality of the killer, his sexual sadism, his obsessive fetishism, and his possible cannibalism and necrophilia.
authors.affiliation: Milwaukee County Medical Examiner, WI 53233.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jentzen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Palermo
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Stormo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Teggatz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods*; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D006708:Homicide / Q000523:psychology*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012448:Sadism / Q000523:psychology