The Psychology of Josh Powell (Chapter 10 - Diagnosis)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 10 June 2024
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00:00 Update on the 911 operator
03:42 Video clips of Susan & Alina's perspective
18:32 The dark tetrad & Steven's conceptualization
41:17 Steven's possible attachment injury
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June 10, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserve listeners, this is chapter 10 in our deep dive on the psychology of Josh Powell. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the final episode in this series in which I provide my conceptualizations of both Stephen and Josh, my hypothesized diagnoses. |
| 0:17.0 | I can't diagnose from afar, of course, but I can hypothesize based on the data available to us. |
| 0:24.1 | But first, I want to talk about something |
| 0:26.6 | I forgot to talk about in the previous episode. |
| 0:29.1 | So you remember the 911 operator that took the call from Elizabeth Griffin Hall, the supervised |
| 0:35.8 | visitation worker who was outside Josh's house calling frantically and how the |
| 0:42.4 | 911 operator seemed indifferent, incompetent, |
| 0:48.0 | something. Well, an update on that individual, that 911 operator, is that apparently now he is teaching classes |
| 0:59.2 | on how not to do what he did. |
| 1:02.4 | He's teaching classes to other 911 operators and specifically he |
| 1:07.0 | talks about compassion fatigue. You know for us non-psychopaths we have empathy |
| 1:11.7 | we care about others we have altruism and we have compassion and |
| 1:17.2 | typically people who enter certain careers have even more empathy and more compassion like a 911 operator or a therapist or a |
| 1:26.4 | first responder. These people tend to choose these jobs because they want to |
| 1:31.6 | make a difference and they care. And they do their job and there's a lot of opportunity to experience some intense situations where people are suffering and you care, so you're trying to help. But over time, and there's a lot of different pathways to this and there's protective factors and da da da. |
| 1:53.8 | But you could imagine somebody becoming fatigued in their compassion. |
| 2:00.9 | They don't have any more compassion left by Wednesday, say, you know, they're |
| 2:08.0 | working Monday and Tuesday and by Wednesday, they're all compassioned out and |
| 2:12.3 | when we measure that in terms of behavior and the |
| 2:17.0 | reports from the individuals and there are measures and this sort of thing but what |
| 2:22.0 | happens is we become overloaded and we might be experiencing secondary PTSD or it might just be burnout just the feeling of, I'm overwhelmed, it's too much, I keep trying to help and |
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