I have chosen to write my case study article on Edward Gein from the psychodynamic theoretical perspective. I believe his behavior is a perfect case for the psychodynamic perspective because of the family dynamic in his home. These circumstances led to actions that would become the inspiration for many book and movie characters due to the strangeness and extreme nature of his human interactions. Perhaps the first crime Edward committed was to kill his older brother. This has significance on a psychological level because Edward's older brother began to disagree with their mother's perspective of the world and I believe this was the motivation for this crime. She loved her mother very much, perhaps to the point of having parent-child relationship problems and couldn't stand it when her brother started discrediting her. Edward was not charged with killing his brother because they were burning a swamp and it was determined to be asphyxiation from the fire. It is suspicious because his brother was not in the burn area and his body was found with bruises. After the death of his brother Edward Gein lived alone with his mother until her death after suffering numerous strokes. Her death devastated him, she was his only friend and companion. Even after a lifetime of mental and physical abuse, he loved her, I believe he developed dependent personality disorder with his mother because he never separated from her. Once considered perhaps a little strange, Gein began displaying multiple heightened behaviors that were and still are considered some of the most abnormal ever seen. Now, alone in the world, Edward Gein had no real connections to the outside world. All he knew was what his mother told him and now... middle of paper... it would surely lead to him wanting to dig up the bodies of recently buried women and use them to create macabre artifacts around the house. “Necrophilia can best be described as sexual arousal stimulated by a corpse. The stimulation can be in the form of fantasies or actual physical sexual contact with the corpse. (Hucker, 2010) I think intensive psychoanalysis would prevent Gein's actions and save the life of at least that woman he killed. I don't think it could have avoided all the dysfunction, but there could have been a noticeable difference. Works Cited Ed gein. (2011, September 1). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_GeinComer, R. (2011). Fundamentals of abnormal psychology. New York, NY: Worth PublishersHucker, SH. (2010). Necrophilia. Retrieved from http://www.forensicpsychiatry.ca/paraphilia/necro.htm