• Theodore Robert Cowell grew up in what he called a
healthy home.
• However, future studies have revealed other facts.
• For a lot of his life he believed his mother to be his sister,
and his grandparents to be his parents.
• His grandfather expressed schizophrenic tendencies, and his
grandmother was being treated for depression.
• At the age of twenty-one, Bundy fell in love with fellow
University of Washington student Stephanie Brooks.
• The love was unrequited.
• When Bundy began to fail in his studies, Brooks left him
suddenly, sending him into a deep and dark stage that would
last the rest of his lifetime.
• Later in his life, Bundy developed a relationship with divorcee
Meg Anders.
• Anders fell deeply in love with Bundy, but he was still obsessed
with Brooks.
• Bundy met up with Brooks
again years later, wooed
her, and got her to fall in
love with him.
• Then, he left her as she left
him three years past for
revenge.
• Unable to feel sympathy
• “I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel
guilt.”
• “I didn’t know what made people want to be friends. I didn’t
know what made people attractive to one another. I didn’t
know what underlay social interactions.”
• Bundy was charming.
• He lost his ability to hold a steady job.
• He was smart and observant.
• Compulsive liar, deceitful, manipulative
• Axis I: 296.54 Bipolar I Disorder (Manic-Depression) with
Psychotic Features
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High highs, low lows
Multiple manic episodes
Confidence during highs that led to rash decisions
Interrupted functioning
• Axis II: 301.7 Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Disregard for the rights of others
Impulsive
Clever
Deceitful
• Axis III: None
• Axis IV: Psychosocial Stressors
• Bundy’s victims had similar physical features to Brooks
• Axis V: Highest Level of Functioning
• Social: 40
• Occupational: 35
• Symptoms: 50
• Psychoanalytic Approach
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Repressed anger
Sexual desire
Strong id compared to ego and superego
“the talking cure”
• Behavioral Approach
• Learned psychotic behavior
• Blamed a lot of his violence on media
• Positive behaviors are rewarded
• Humanistic Approach
• Deviated from natural tendency of good
• Self-actualization and individualism
• Fulfillment instead of emptiness and anger