this tragedy ahead of time, no matter how bizarre the behavior". He also noted that while Jeffery was devastated when his mother left him, it would be wrong to blame his parents for what he had become. "Ever since Sigmund Freud, we blame everything bad that kids do on their parents.The culprit was Dahmer. Not his father not his family, not the police." I disagree with this statement to a degree. I believe that Jeff had some absolute different behavior as a child that went unattended to. By no means am I saying that things would have been different, but even in the recollection of his father, he could see those things now but did not see them as Jeffery was a boy. If those issues were addressed in some type of therapy there may have been a different outcome. When I look at the personality that I just read about and try to relate it to different theories of personality I see a lot of issues that coincide with all the theories. When you look at Freud and the psychoanalytic theory this type personality fits real well into the belief that conflicts concerning sexual and aggressive instincts and social inhibitions form the heart of the psychoanalytic study of behavioral dynamics. I also believe that this type personality could of used the approach that change had to deal with the unconscious and irrational desires of individuals. I am not sure that an individual capable of committing this type of behavior even has a conscious. In the learning theorist personality development is based on the formation and strengthening of habits or stimulus-response bonds. You have to look at the behavior Jeff was displaying at an early age and there was some strange behavior going on that was not dealt with. Perhaps this behavior could of been changed by altering stimulus-response connections through rewards and punishments. When I look at the cognitive approach and look into hierarchy of needs the only thing I can relate to that Jeff may have ...
