The Psychology of Columbine (Ch 2 - Eric Behavior)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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00:00 Was there a history of abuse?
13:32 What is schizotypal personality disorder?
19:09 Who was Eric Harris?
38:31 Eric's prior problems
1:07:33 Was the dark tetrad present?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, this is chapter two in our deep dive on the Columbine School shooting. |
| 0:05.5 | My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor. Who are you, Berto? |
| 0:09.6 | My name is Umberto Castaneda and I fix broken compasses. So where do we begin this chapter? |
| 0:16.4 | All right. So last time we kind of went over a quick overview over what happened on april 20th and if you |
| 0:24.0 | were expecting a deep second by second narration of all the horribleness that wasn't the point |
| 0:30.0 | i just wanted to give an overview and also some context about the time and place but this chapter |
| 0:35.4 | we're going to be talking about the background, the history of |
| 0:39.1 | these two killers and what might have led to this. And our approach to this is with the understanding |
| 0:50.3 | and the regard for the journalistic practice of not glorifying the killers, but in order |
| 0:58.7 | to enact the mission of this podcast to try to make the world a better place, talking about |
| 1:04.8 | the killers might help us to prevent these things from mapping in the future. |
| 1:10.7 | That's the foundation for us to move forward. |
| 1:13.3 | Plus, our coverage of this is a drop in the, you know, in the bucket of all of the |
| 1:18.9 | coverage that has happened over the year. |
| 1:20.6 | So I doubt that our coverage is suddenly going to cause a spike in glorification of |
| 1:26.4 | these two people. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, I sure don't expect that. |
| 1:30.5 | Okay, so first to get it out of the way, when one watches the footage or knows a bit about |
| 1:37.3 | what happened, it's already evident that there was an incredible amount of viciousness, |
| 1:42.5 | brutality, callousness in the act. |
| 1:46.1 | As I mentioned in the last episode, they didn't just plan to go and shoot some people, |
| 1:52.4 | which is already horrible enough. |
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