{"id":198000,"date":"2025-10-13T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198000\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:08:08","slug":"what-ed-geins-mental-diagnosis-would-be-today-67-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198000\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ed Gein’s mental diagnosis would be today, 67 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"

He says it\u2019s \u2018based on broad and outdated criteria\u2019<\/p>\n

Monster: The Ed Gein Story delves heavily into the serial killer\u2019s mental health after committing his heinous crimes, but a psychiatrist has claimed his diagnosis would be very different 67 years later.<\/p>\n

The killer was given a mental examination after his arrest in 1957 and diagnosed with schizophrenia<\/a>. He was then declared unfit for trial and sent to a mental asylum, where he lived the rest of his life.<\/p>\n

However, forensic psychiatrist Professor Paul E. Mullen has claimed he wouldn\u2019t actually qualify for any mental conditions at all in today\u2019s world, due to advances in technology and medical testing.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Reach Screen Time<\/a>, he said: \u201cGein was diagnosed at the time with a schizophrenic illness, based on broad and outdated criteria. By modern standards, he would not meet criteria for schizophrenia or any psychotic disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cContemporary reports describe him as shy, self-absorbed, and socially isolated, but with no evidence of persecutory delusions,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The expert claimed\u00a0Gein\u2019s hallucinations of his mother<\/a> were likely to be a symptom of grief rather than schizophrenia.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe heard his mother\u2019s voice after her death, a common experience in bereavement rather than a symptom of psychosis. His mother had a profound and enduring influence, instilling a fear of the sinful outside world and particularly of women,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis devotion persisted after her death, motivating his attempts to contact her spirit. Gein claimed much of his grave robbing and possibly his murders were tied to this obsession.\u201d<\/p>\n

The psychiatrist added: \u201cThis relationship shaped both his psychological development and the extreme nature of his crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gein\u2019s official medical evaluation from 1957 was published in a book called The Ed Gein File by John Borowski, which\u00a0described his behaviour as \u201cmorbid (and) ghoulish \u2026 with exhumation of several bodies and the fashioning of masks from the heads\u201d.<\/p>\n

He scored 106 on a verbal IQ test and 89 on a performance IQ test, bringing his average IQ to 99. The average IQ is around 100. Doctors said in the report: \u201cThere are indications that subject is better than average intelligence, but here again is shown inefficient functioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

They concluded that he should be diagnosed as a \u201cschizophrenic reaction of the chronic undifferentiated type\u201d and said this had been going on for \u201can undetermined number of years\u201d. This means he met the criteria for schizophrenia, but didn\u2019t fit into one of the four usual subtypes.<\/p>\n

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