Edmund Kemper, or Ed, was born on the 18th of December 1948 in Burbank, California. Ed Kemper is the middle child of his family. From a young age Ed was both psychologically and physically abused by his alcoholic mother. For example, from the age of ten his mother locked him in the basement; the reason she gave for this was because she believed he was a danger to his two sisters. She would also refuse to show him too much affection because she was scared he would become a homosexual. She ridiculed him for his large size and would regularly tell him that no one would ever love him. Kemper showed signs of instability from a very young age, he had a dark and disturbing fantasy life. He would often fantasize about killing his mother, he cut the …show more content…
During his time there he was extensively tested and it was determined that he had a very high IQ but also paranoid schizophrenia. At the Youth Authority, psychiatrists disagreed with the diagnosis of schizophrenia stating he showed ‘no flight of ideas, no interference with thought, no expression of delusions or hallucinations, and no evidence of bizarre thinking’. Later on the psychiatrists re-diagnosed him with a ‘personality trait disturbance’. Kemper gained the trust of the staff by being a model prisoner gaining positions of trust within the facility to such an extent that he was even trained to administer tests on other inmates. He stated that he developed "some new tests and some new scales on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory," specifically an "Overt Hostility Scale." During his work with Atascadero psychiatrists Kemper also said he learnt a lot from the inmates he tested. (change slide) Now I will analyse him using the big five. I think he scores low in ‘openness’. This is shown by the fact that he doesn't seem open new experiences and is quite conventional in his thinking - aside from the