H H Holmes
Herman Webster Mudgett was the first American serial killer the terrorized Chicago in the late 1800’s, yet he was a slave to his own mind and his own disorders. Herman, who is also famous as H. H. Holmes had two personality disorders that drove him to commit the actions that he committed. evidence shows that Holmes had personality disorders like narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
H. H Holmes shows signs of antisocial personality disorder in many ways. To begin with, Mudgett started at an early age torturing animals (CNN). He used to be afraid of doctors but one day he had an experience with a skeleton and after that he was changed forever. Also in his famous castle there was remains of bodies in the basement with pure evidence of torture. It is evident that Dr. Holmes tortured these young women with no evidence of any remorse.(How Stuff Works). Dr. Holmes himself that he was slowly and slowly turning into the devil since he didn’t feel any remorse or anything of such towards his victims (H. H. Holmes; Master of Illusion, chapter 17). The treatment for antisocial personality disorder is very tricky but usually most doctors use operant conditioning-rewarding the good actions and punishing the illegal ones-(National Library of Medicine).Of course such treatment was not present in the time of Dr. Holmes so he had no way of getting help.
Another personality disorder Dr. Holmes had was narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder is when a person has an inflated self image and inflated goals that he will stop at nothing to achieve them. This was the case with Mudgett, as a matter of fact, Herman killed his con-partner in order to perfect a con on an insurance company to get some extra money.(H. H. Holmes; Master of Illusion, chapter 3). Having shown that he doesn’t really care about his friend or anyone he supposedly had an emotional attachment with, he proved that he has narcissistic personality
H. H Holmes shows signs of antisocial personality disorder in many ways. To begin with, Mudgett started at an early age torturing animals (CNN). He used to be afraid of doctors but one day he had an experience with a skeleton and after that he was changed forever. Also in his famous castle there was remains of bodies in the basement with pure evidence of torture. It is evident that Dr. Holmes tortured these young women with no evidence of any remorse.(How Stuff Works). Dr. Holmes himself that he was slowly and slowly turning into the devil since he didn’t feel any remorse or anything of such towards his victims (H. H. Holmes; Master of Illusion, chapter 17). The treatment for antisocial personality disorder is very tricky but usually most doctors use operant conditioning-rewarding the good actions and punishing the illegal ones-(National Library of Medicine).Of course such treatment was not present in the time of Dr. Holmes so he had no way of getting help.
Another personality disorder Dr. Holmes had was narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder is when a person has an inflated self image and inflated goals that he will stop at nothing to achieve them. This was the case with Mudgett, as a matter of fact, Herman killed his con-partner in order to perfect a con on an insurance company to get some extra money.(H. H. Holmes; Master of Illusion, chapter 3). Having shown that he doesn’t really care about his friend or anyone he supposedly had an emotional attachment with, he proved that he has narcissistic personality
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