The Psychology of Josh Powell (Chapter 3 - Girlfriend)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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00:00 Chapter 1-2 recap
04:41 Josh's time in college
15:25 Josh's journal narrative
38:28 Josh's relationship with his mom
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May 24, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserve an |
| 0:02.0 | listeners, this is chapter 3 in our deep dive on the psychology of Josh Powell. |
| 0:05.0 | We are going to continue with the storyline, |
| 0:09.0 | and at the end, we will provide our analysis. I will provide our analysis I will provide my analysis of their personalities |
| 0:16.3 | not only Josh Powell but also his father Stephen so let's get into it what do you say say, Berto? Let's do it. This is the psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host Dr Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and I'm also a professor. |
| 0:29.4 | My name is Umberto Kastagna, and I'm a zookeeper coach. I want to provide a recap of what we've already |
| 0:38.0 | established in chapters one and two. So very briefly Josh Powell second to five children to Stephen and Theresa Powell. |
| 0:45.6 | The parents Stephen and Theresa fought a lot. |
| 0:48.2 | Stephen was also abusive, both physical and verbal. sounded quite severe he was particularly |
| 0:55.4 | abusive to Josh Stephen was also highly permissive with the children and |
| 1:01.5 | highly undermined the mother's attempts to provide structure. |
| 1:05.6 | There's also some very minor evidence that the mom might have been rejecting as well, so there's that possibility but I don't know I don't want to |
| 1:15.8 | throw the mom under the bus because she shouldn't be blamed for any of this |
| 1:21.7 | also Josh was struggling emotionally, which is understandable, given everything |
| 1:27.6 | that he was going through, being abused and targeted, and he would write in his journal and there were observations from the outside that he was struggling emotionally and one example of this is that he had a serious suicide attempt when he was a teenager and he went to a therapist or a psychiatrist |
| 1:47.3 | or something. |
| 1:48.3 | Now there didn't seem to be signs of early psychopathy or early |
| 1:54.6 | psychopathic personality or any social personality, at least not the typical |
| 1:59.2 | pattern. |
| 2:00.2 | Except maybe the pets, right? |
| 2:02.4 | Right. He did kill the sisters's gerbils. I also heard or read that he didn't kill multiple gerbils. |
| 2:08.2 | He just killed one gerbil. It doesn't really matter. |
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