about the psychological analysis of the
pathway to violence and mass shooters
it’s definitely focusing today or in the
case of Anders Breivik and Adam Lanza
their inherent challenges to identifying
individuals her high-risk have engaged
the extreme violence such as mass
shooting one of the main challenges to
identify these individuals is that the
behavior that we’re trying to protect is
extremely rare because of the event
rates so low conventional research
techniques or methods are completely
useless here many academics have
explored and investigated the myths and
misconceptions surrounding serial
homicide behavior for instance it’s an
erroneous assumption to make that person
who’s intending engaging in mass
violence will avoid publicizing their
intentions or lane pair to their attack
many mass shooters will actually
actively post things in the forms of
pictures but he wasn’t X or lane prior
to their attacks for instance the case
of Elliot Rogers who posted up his D
retribution video prior to killing six
people and injuring 14 others near the
campus of University California Santa
Barbara and 2014 also Paris attack alert
Reuters sent his through an email has
friends family therapists and teachers a
107,000 word manifesto that itself
entitled my twisted world we must
further our understanding of the
psychological traits and triggers that
lead to these really extreme violent
behaviors if we are to identify and
prevent it psychiatrist maker Fitzgerald
argued that school shootings and mass
shootings are not uncommon Lee carried
out by people with neurodevelopmental
disorders such as Asperger’s syndrome
with often a very good deal of warning
on Lane in the form of pictures and text
Meiko Fitzgerald argued in positives
that our new diagnosis be created that
he called criminal autistic psychopathy
which the sub casa gave people with
Asperger’s syndrome
he felt this diagnosis would help
deferentially a small subgroup of
individuals with autism who engage in
these extremely violent behaviors thus
separating them from the general
population of individuals with autism
who are normally Utley to engage in
violent behavior than the general
population and in fact some would even
suggest that actually been less likely
to commit violent behaviors for the
general population there’s also been
other researchers that are positive the
link between autism spectrum disorders
but y’all know referred to as autism for
the remainder of the presentation I’m
Cyril home aside behavior given these
really interesting findings that’s
really led myself to investigate less in
more detail looking at the way of
psychosocial stressors and
neurodevelopmental disorders and mash it
was the serial killers from an unbiased
sample of 75 masters we found that eight
percent of this group had a diagnosis of
autism or their family or friends
strongly advocated that we definitely
had this diagnosis although this is
eight times arre of that phone’s natural
population the famous not suggest that
individuals with autism or more
little–it’s by masseter in fact there’s
many things that are exacerbated and
people’s autism for instance they may
have issues and reliefs and problems in
a way so that it’s actually exacerbated
and naturally find it much more
difficult to call common mobile
commodities are also existent in
people’s autism Francis mid disorders
such as anxiety and depression are very
common and behavior disorders such as
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
or ADHD these findings will increase
prevalence of autism within this
extremely violent group of mass shooters
was consistent with a narrow study where
we also find the same higher prevalence
and master’s and serial killers however
it’s very important to point out here
that every single one of those
individuals with autism that engaged in
this extreme violent behavior all had
experienced psychosocial stressors such
as victimization and skill-building
so what can we really see then a
pedigree of a fainting and general and
that’s particularly for individuals what
does it be search tailors I think when
the clinic key landmark studies with had
in this area in the study that was
published by Hepler and colleagues in
2010 they looked at the real nature of
claims and 177 individuals with
Asperger’s syndrome and they found that
the array of creams was no different to
that of the general population in case
records spanning 22 years they found
that there were 33 convictions almost
artistry convictions there are three
cases of bodily injury one case of
robbery and one case of violence
threatening behavior and the researchers
argued that this was no different to the
general population individuals with
autism are no more likely to be violent
compared to the general population
however in saying that there is a small
subgroup of individuals with autism who
when they do engage in violent crime it
tends to be very extreme on the 14th
December 2012 20 year old Adam Lanza
killed 26 people 20 of which were young
children and the Sandy Hook elementary
school in Newtown Connecticut other
monster was quite a couple of times
throughout his childhood adolescence
diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and
obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD I
report detailing the warning signs in
red flags exhibited by Lanzer prior to
his attack was published a couple of
years after his attack in 2012 the
report argued the in Lance’s case his
severe and worsening internalized mental
health disorders combined with an
atypical preoccupation with mass
violence and access to weapons were the
key factors works contributed his
the report also revealed the in fifth
grade
Adam Lanza produced an extremely
disturbing project but she’d called the
big book of granny the content of this
bit was considered of obsessed
of both in length Anton pictures intense
violence containing images and
narratives depicting child murder
cannibalism and taxidermy the people
that created the poor said that most
children would even know how to invade
new material within this report he
created the mental health professionals
that contributed to the report also said
that had the report being subject to
really careful review by school staff it
would have really highlights the need
for Adam Lanza to seek child psychiatric
evaluations however the report does also
argue that teachers may not have the
necessary training or expertise that
will help them identify individuals hurt
risk or who are demonstrating a red
flags or understand going to seek
further assessments particularly for
individuals who are progressing well
academically for her struggling socially
in having social deficits another report
revealed that Adam Lanza had also
compelled a spreadsheet on mass suitors
that occurred over the years
specifically it was a four by seven foot
spreadsheet with detail on over 500
masters laying all minor details
including the weapons used the body
counts and location of the attack such
was the level detail the report is
considered to have taken absolutely
years to compile and was casera to be
used as a score sheet by other mincer as
well one anonymous law enforcement
veteran status and a quote it was like a
doctoral thesis that was the quality of
the research there was also another
other warning signs that other minds
exhibited that I think when they can key
things here was his use of garbage bags
in order to block her natural dealy in
this bedroom in computer room you can
see here from the picture this is a
picture from his bedroom however there
is no one single factor which triggered
Adam Lanza’s attack instead there was a
number of codes with the factors that
resulted in his planned and
well-executed attack for instance has
increased in isolation his loss of
school has increased isolation
for his own family living in the same
roof has symptoms of OCD
obsessive-compulsive disorder anxiety
and depression also worsened in esteem
and it was also considered that is
profound and potential worsening
anorexia nervosa was also not sure here
in fact her other mindless obsession
with masters also increased and pure and
it became very preoccupied during this
time and a forensic review that reveal
there’s preoccupation with masters have
increased dramatically and was extremely
intense and did other Minds I was really
fascinated but Norwegian masseter Anders
Breivik
I was failing to have researched him
extensively other ones who also used
many techniques employed by Anders
Breivik as well and replicated them for
instance the use of first-person shooter
games for training purposes and hated
how to as marksman traineeship Adam
whines on the last couple ones parrot
attack also became really actively
engaged in a small online community of
people who shared his dark obsession
with masters the FBI Behavioral Analysis
Unit also found in determined that after
extensive forensic review of Adam
Lanza’s computer usage that his level of
attention is attention to detail and as
assess of nature with masters was quite
literally cool unprecedented on the 22nd
of July 2011 anders breivik norwegian
masseter got bombed government buildings
in Oslo and then proceeded to the island
of your toya where he killed 77
individuals for this he was sentenced to
present for 21 years but the question is
asked what is it that motivated Abbott
Anders Breivik here what why did he kill
honest manner it’s not it’s not as
simple to say that he was a terrorist
supporting an idealized religion or
simply this missingness man is being
insane he himself has claimed that his
actions were motivated to save you not
from radical Islam and it was actions
and as motivations were were all for the
goodness nor evil however after studying
detailed assessments of
fire rate terrorists I’m assessing as
well and as barracks orange rating in a
self-published manifesto we are found
that a condition known as narcissistic
decompensation may have been behind his
beliefs that he is waging a personal and
particle war up until the age of 27
years and this Brevik had experienced a
number of social social stressors and
life stressors for instance he had a
really difficult relationship a
relationship with his mother he’d
experienced rejection from political
elites and gaming elites as well in some
his life experiences up until that point
have culminated in numerous field
attempts to gain positions of power and
Status attention and adulation from
others a narcissistic decompensation can
occur when someone with a narcissistic
personality disorder experiences
significant crisis and major injuries to
their self-esteem occurs when there’s a
significant discrepancy between that
individuals grandiose fantasies and them
average or mediocre accomplishments
since the person does not get a
validation from reality
for instance attention adoration and
love that is so desperately desire
they’d experienced a decompensation
narcissistic decompensation can consist
of a depression marked by psychomotor
retardation disrupted sleep patterns a
becoming preservative and once speech or
ratings pursuing an addiction or
expressing an extreme sense of a page as
a result the person isolates themselves
due to the harsh reality that they’re
not of grandparents status and will turn
to themselves to fit their own
grandiosity by supplying their own sense
of attention in adoration in various
case is narcissistic decompensation we
argued the caliber in the age of 27
years lasting approximately two to three
years he read me writes his life history
to try and bring a sense of grandeur he
rewrites himself as being a high ranking
freemium
it’s also random at this time where it
becomes really affected on the idea that
there’s a conspiracy amongst Islamic
immigrants to take over Europe something
he himself called this honest
isomerization of a Europe one of Oslo’s
was prominent psychiatrists argued and
told the court of law during the case
the Anders Breivik was probably
suffering from Asperger’s syndrome
Tourette syndrome and narcissistic
personality disorder he’d also argued
that it could not be completely real day
the Anders Breivik was suffering from
possible paranoid psychosis there is the
support that the psychiatrist gave for
in particular Anders Breivik in
Asperger’s syndrome was his difficulties
with social signals the lack of emotion
and feeling the he portrayed when
discussing his victims during courts he
also was very monotonous in tone of
voice he was obsessed with rating
something less hypergraphia and was
assessed by numbers I had a really
really strong memory ability also I
think it’s quite interesting here I read
it at the age of four Anders Breivik
actually had psychiatric evaluation and
the psychiatrist as time also can
evergreed the analyst previck was
possibly suffering from Asperger’s
syndrome so these two conditions
narcissistic personality disorder and
Asperger’s or autism together may form a
particularly dangerous combination and
may actually increase the risk of
someone engaging in these extremely
violent behaviors such as mass shooting
somewhere two previous studies we have
found that there could be a link between
having narcissistic personality disorder
and engage in this really extreme
violent behavior however and Anders by
this case we think that narcissistic
decompensation may have occurred at the
time when he was relying with an
Asperger’s coping strategy so engage and
become really effective a certain thing
could have been the final thing that
pushed him onto the path towards entails
violence in our system has been found to
be a risk factor and masters and school
shooters I think one of the key study
in Assyria is one that looked at seven
German school shootings and these seven
offenders to preferring to display high
levels of narcissistic personality
traits when these turns vigils were
investigated further one way that was
actually considered to be actually have
fulfilled the requirements for our fill
diagnosis of narcissistic personality
disorder and interestingly the rate of
narcissistic personality disorder in a
general population is just under 1%
however this prevalence is much higher
in clinical samples and can be anything
between 2% and as much as 16% the fact
of a study found that one in seven of
these skill shooters had this diagnosis
really sure that the prevalence was
actually much closer to that found in
clinical samples from the general
population
so therefore narcissism may be one of
the rest factors and precipitating these
extremely violent attacks however
caution must be put in place here
narcissistic traits are not a necessary
condition for motivating and mass
shooting similarly having an autism
spectrum disorder and narcissistic
personality disorder combined well not
necessarily by themselves propelled
individuals up the path to violence is
really key to ploy here that other
factors are important and art play here
on these individuals a little is known
about the warning signs or early warning
signs and red flags and these
individuals the route itself has been
well defamed in the aftermath
essentially as you can see here the
pathway towards intense violence starts
with harbored grievances that can they
are developed and continue with the idea
friends in the case of Anders Breivik
that you’re saving Europe from radical
Islam the next stage Stage two is you
can see no pathway here as ideation at
the stage the potential would be
masseter starts to view violence has
been the only option available to them
it’s at this stage as well we’ll start
to identify with other assailants and
other masters that record and they’ll
also start expressing their thoughts to
others at the stage as well and very
obsessively as well this has been
followed by me
in planning and preparation followed by
beach security in the case of Anders
Breivik he used GPS the scope routes
were in the Toya island part of the
attack and in family assault company
it’s in the national final attack itself
stage six of the pathway to violence
model other authors and beast deficits
interact with psychopathology and their
clinical clinical presentation and what
was common and critical for mass
violence to occur was that these factors
coexisted are combined with this the
pathway to violence in this case the
stage is one of grievances basically
anyone who starts with grievances and
credits crystallizes these in ideation
and in Falls the subsequent steps of
preparation research and planning and
feature security will highly lately
engage in an extreme violent attack of
mass shooting however umbrellas case we
argue that it wasn’t as narcissistic
personality disorder Percy that led them
down the pathway to violence rather
there was an artistic decompensation and
its overlap with the first stage and a
pathway to violence grievances that
really motivated his attack the pathway
to violence and the factors that drive
someone to become a master requires
urgent detailed investigation mass
shooting episodes are really impulsive
and are typically well-planned and
executed over months and even years the
pathway to violence therefore really
opens up this a great opportunity for
the development of threat assessment
endless once or weeks or years even then
the potential would be masseter
behaviors fantasies and actions escalate
the raises an opportunity with which to
identify these individuals and put in
place preventive strategies in order to
try and avoid these atrocities from
occurring and the aftermath of a mass
shooting the question is always asked
could it have been prevented
psychological analysis is just one way
we can recognize and begin to start
understanding further the red flags and
warning signs and these individuals and
prevent these atrocities before they
even occur
thank you [Applause]