Tom Araya Quotes

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

I'd describe 'Born to Kill' as a 'study in psychopathy', it's very much in the heads of our main protagonist, Sam, a young boy dealing with dark, twisted psychotic desires. It's also a coming-of-age story.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

I read a lot about serial killers.

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

Mr. [Muhammad Ali] Jinnah is a psychopathic case.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.