"Men Exhibiting Abuse in Relationships: Results of childhood abuse and its inhibiting results in relationships" by Rick Morris

Jeffrey Dahmer, Edgar Allen Poe, Adolph Hitler, Ted Bundy, Saddam Hussein, and Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) may all have one thing in common; they did not get assistance in healing from childhood attachment issues (Thomas, 2000). None of these men was able to develop a healthy self-identity when it came to connecting intimately with others. Thus, living much of their adult life with a pseudo identity and being extremely vulnerable to others when it came to …

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