Whitesburg, Kentucky is a rural community of under 2000 residents. In many circumstances people have both personal and professional connections. Everybody knows each other. Murder is a rare occurrence. Scandalous murder shook this community. On the afternoon of September 19th 2024, the prosecutors say that elected Sheriff Shawn M. Stines walked into the chambers of […]
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Laci Peterson disappeared in 2002 on Christmas Eve, while eight months pregnant. Her husband of over five years, Scott Peterson, was convicted of her death, it was commuted to a life sentence in 2021. He maintained his innocence. On January 18, 2024, the Los Angeles Innocence Project took Peterson on as a client and filed
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Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) is characterized by a persistent pattern of social anxiety, heightened sensitivity to rejection, and pervasive feelings of inadequacy, coupled with a deep-rooted longing for meaningful connections with others. Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler first described an avoidant personality type in his 1911 work Dementia Praecox: Or the Group of Schizophrenias. German psychiatrist
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Schizoaffective disorder is among the most frequently misdiagnosed psychiatric disorders in clinical practice. Due to concerns about the reliability and utility of the diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder, some researchers have proposed revisions, while others have suggested altogether removing the diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The term schizoaffective disorder first
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His parties in Hollywood were legendary. His empire immense, his bank account huge. At one time, he was the king of hip hop, one of the early pioneers who took his music and culture and turned it into hundreds of millions of dollars, establishing himself as a true power broker in the world of entertainment.
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A delusion is a fixed false belief based on an inaccurate interpretation of an external reality despite evidence to the contrary. Cultural beliefs also impact the content of delusions. An individual’s cultural beliefs merit consideration before coming to the diagnosis. The belief is not congruent with one’s culture or subculture, and almost everyone else knows
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Madeleine was on holiday with her parents Kate and Gerry McCann, her two-year-old twin siblings, and seven friends and their children. Madeleine’s parents are both physicians. Kate is a general practitioner. She had moved briefly into obstetrics and gynecology, then anesthetics. Gerry qualified in medicine and in 2002 obtained his MD, from Glasgow. Since 2005,
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Stockholm syndrome, psychological response wherein a captive begins to identify closely with his or her captors, as well as with their agenda and demands. The name of the syndrome is derived from a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. In August 1973 four employees of Sveriges Kreditbank were held hostage in the bank’s vault for
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On April 27, 2008, Vienna, Austria, the world learned the gruesome details of what Josef Fritzl did to his daughter. The story sent shock waves around the world. News report gave details of a quite unimaginable story. For 24 years Josef Fritzl had kept his own daughter captive in a cellar beneath his house. In
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Hybristophilia is a paraphilia involving sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes. Hybristophilia, as defined by sexologist Dr. John Money (1986), was initially used to explain the paraphilia where an individual is “sexuoerotically turned on only by a partner who has a predatory history of outrages perpetrated on others”. Since this definition, which is found throughout
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