The Psychology of the John Lennon Murder (Part 1)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Dr. Kirk Honda and Humberto talk about the psychology of John Lennon’s murderer.

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0:00.0	So as a super fan of the Beatles and John Lennon in particular, I thought why haven't I done an
0:08.6	episode about the assassination of John Lennon and the person who assassinated John Lennon? I mean,
0:15.9	why haven't we done a deep dive on his psychology? And when I suggested it, Berto, to you, I
0:24.5	dedicated a couple days to researching it and I thought it would be a medium deep dive. As I
0:33.0	got into it, I found it way more complicated than I thought and much more data was available to
0:39.6	us and contradictory things about the psychology of the individual who assassinated John Lennon.
0:48.6	And so we were supposed to record this the last time I got together, but I texted you that day
0:52.8	and I was like, I'm halfway through my notes. There's no way I'm going to get this done. So it gave
0:58.0	me, it gave me another couple of weeks to work on this. The test was postponed. Yeah. And what I found
1:05.8	was that it's kind of a mysterious case. It's as a lot of these cases are that we'll get into,
1:12.9	but I thought there would be some simple narrative as to why the individual who assassinated John
1:20.0	Lennon did what he did. I thought there would be some kind of, well, he was psychotic and he was
1:25.0	having delusional episode or something along those lines, but there really wasn't a simple answer.
1:31.1	And it's people want a simple answer. And I found a lot of interesting answers, you know, like
1:38.1	he's crazy, psychotic. He's obsessed with John Lennon. He's narcissistic. He wanted to be famous.
1:45.8	The book, catcher of the rye made him do it. And by the way, all these are factors that are
1:51.7	possible that we'll get into later. Others are Nixon hated John because John was considered to be
2:00.4	one of the leaders of the extremists in the 70s. You know, one of the things that sort of lost
2:05.6	a history is just how much domestic terrorism there was in the 70s by the left. There were
2:13.1	terrorists in the United States who were sending bombs to politicians houses to professors to
2:22.2	individuals and killing them or maming them. And there were kidnappings, you know,
2:28.8	Hearst, what's her face? Patty Hearst. And John Lennon was definitely considered to be one of the
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