Albert Fish: A Man-Made Murderer

Albert Fish: A Man Made Murderer
Albert Fish was irreversibly affected by his environment and the people in it. In the case of nature vs nurture, Fish’ abusive and twisted upbringing and his state of mind was permanently alternated and forever corrupted. With his traits of sado-masochism, being a sex pervert, cannibalism, coprophilia, urophilia, and pedophilia being introduced to him at a rather young age his actions towards his victims were beyond cruel.
In the beginning, Albert grew up as the youngest of his siblings; Walter, Annie, and Edwin Fish, in which most of them had mental illness and one suffered from religious mania. His father first worked as a river boat captain then moved to be a fertilizer manufacturer but eventually had a
Further to this, a large, nationally representative study in the US reported that those who had experienced child physical abuse were at a higher risk for a range of psychiatric disorders in adulthood than those not reporting such abuse (Sugaya et al., 2012). Disorders included (in descending order of strength of association) attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, drug abuse, nicotine dependence, generalized anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder. The same study reported that many adults reporting child physical abuse also reported child sexual abuse and neglect and, importantly, the study found a dose-response relationship with those experiencing a higher frequency of abuse at higher risk of psychiatric disorder than those reporting lower frequency of abuse.” (Hunter, 2014). (https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/effects-child-abuse-and-neglect-adult-survivors). Because of all of the physical abuse his mind became tainted and experienced effects of the latter kind listed above, the ones that are related to sexually abusing a child. Even though he had children of his own it is claimed that he had never physically or sexually abused them. Other
Dr. Fredrick Wertham a psychiatrist, had been told by Fish that he had been sticking needles into his body for years in the area between the scrotum and rectum. Fish had told Dr. Wertham that he would stick himself with the needles and then pull them out but some he had lodged in too far and had lost the needle inside of him. Dr. Wertham had not believed fish due to his compulsive lying, but was curious so he had taken X-rays of Fish. Little to find out that he would find “at least 29 needles stuck into Fish’s pelvic region” ((http://www.murderpedia.org/male.F/f/fish-albert.htm). It is unknown when Fish became a murderer, but can be inferred from his childhood that being unusual wasn’t a shocker. When Fish was a child he had three older siblings in which two out if the three had been institutionalized for being an alcoholic and another for being fibble-minded. The other had suffered from religious mania, when fish was reunited with his mother at the age of seven, shortly after he had fallen from a cherry tree and had severe head trauma, from which it had given him severe headaches and dizzy spells. We can use this to infer that, maybe this had an impact on Fish’s mind when he had gotten older such as why he hears voices inside of his head (http://twistedminds.creativescapism.com/most-notorious/albert-fish/). After the being convicted of murdering and eating a ten year old