Ted Bundy Psychological Analysis

The five perspectives of psychology are used to aid psychologists in analysing someone’s actions through different points of views; the actions of a person can be influenced by many things, whether it’s something that happened in their past that they’ve bottled up, or a chemical change in their body. Through the five psychological perspectives the actions of the serial killer, Ted Bundy, can be analysed and an incentive for his crimes can be inferred.
Through the behavioral perspective, motives for Ted Bundy’s murders can be observed and linked to anything that he was exposed to. Ted Bundy’s mother, Louise Cowell, was unmarried when she had Bundy. To avoid the humiliation that was usually associated with birth out of wedlock, Bundy’s maternal
Bundy had a fixation with women that resembled his ex girlfriend, he was devastated and furious and there was no way for him to take it out on her, so he targeted women that reminded him of his ex. Although, that is not why he raped his victims, Ted Bundy was seen as handsome and charismatic, and would have no problem getting what he wanted, but what he craved was the control. Knowing that he had his victim’s lives in his hands and that he could kill them gave him a sense of
She also went through electroshock therapy (now called electroconvulsive therapy), and later developed a phobia of leaving the house, agoraphobia. Bundy has history of disorders in his family, and although he was never diagnosed with anything, all the signs showed that he had something. In the aforementioned book, Serial Killers, there is a quote from his childhood friend that says, “It was really easy to see when Ted got mad. His eyes turned just about black [...] When he gets hot, they seem to get less blue and more dark”. Ted Bundy major chemical changes happen in his body and the signs showed, whether it was something that would be considered genetic or not, it was never