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Date Posted: 06:27:44 10/31/05 Mon
Author: Daniel W. Miller, Ph.D.
Subject: Murder in the Genre

I'm a self-publishing psychologist and don't write fiction (though some may think otherwise). I want to thank you for your article about Viehl and her son Chanpman. I've privately bemoaned the lack of awareness that murders are not genetically induced, they come out of hatred, frustration, unfulfilled ambition and needs based in the murderer's history. With children that history necessarily involves parents. With adults who are "lovers" it's the same story with some kind of additional provocation from the "loved" one that triggers unresolved issues lying dormant in the unconscious domain. For a short time I had a forty year old man in therapy who had watched his father murder his mother. He was a block of stone and had no idea why he could not connect with women, and thankfully hadn't murdered anyone, but while seeing him I feared for his potential. Chapman was already dead amotionally and wanted to find his life by doing something he thought he might feel, but it evidently did not succeed in bringing him back to feeling. The dilemma is that if you do therapy with him now will you unleash the murderous feelings to the extent that he might become a serial killer? It is speculative. His mother manifests the same self-centered feelinglessness. She ultimately buried her fear of his father and rejected his son. I suspect Chapman's real father is nowhere to be found at present. This is a tragic story on many levels that perpetuates itself generationally.
Daniel W. Miller

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