Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson

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	• Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson Keith Ablow St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 87 reviews view larger image
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Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson

Keith Ablow's psychoanalytic interpretation of Scott Peterson and his descent into darkness is as close as we will come to understanding the mind of an empty man.
Ablow knows something about killers. He tells us that Peterson was dead when he killed his wife and unborn son - and he is right.
Of everyone writing to explain away this American tragedy, Ablow comes closest to defining what it takes for a psycopath to take shape and form in American society as Peterson did as a young man growing up in a dysfunctional family environment.
Ablow first and foremost is a psychiatrist. He is clear and unambiguous as he goes about dissecting Peterson, whom we come to know.
Ablow goes one step further - a step that quite often disturbs those who don't want to face the fact that Staci Peterson should have known the man she was living with.
Scott and his wife, tragically, inevitably, are both victims.
It is fitting and it is right that Peterson is today rotting away in prison.
Ablow assures us that Peterson is at ease with his own emptiness locked in his cell forever.
Dr. Ablow is never more the empathic psychiatrist than when leading us to the truth about Scott Peterson.
The truth is a terrible weapon of aggression.
To deny the truth in Ablow's book or to miss the point of his conclusions is to evade the reality about Scott Peterson.
Ablow didn't have to meet Peterson face to face to know him and to understand what he did and why he did it.
Ablow has met many Scott Petersons - and he is certain to meet many more as they are being produced all over this nation.

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Inside the mind of scott peterson

This book not only showed me what maybe Scott Peterson was thinking at different times of his life, but how things can affect the way some people deal with events in their life. It was very interesting.

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Mask of Sanity?

"Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson" is an interesting, if possibly flawed, look at the psychological makeup of Scott Peterson. Dr. Keith Ablow, while never having interviewed or worked with Peterson himself, does make some fascinating points and conclusions. Background on the Peterson family, which I previously did not know, sheds some light on the dynamics of this dyfunctional family. Could the murder of Peterson's grandfather have led to Peterson himself becoming a murderer? There are some similarities and parallels but truth is, we will never know.
What is known is that Peterson is a killer, and he is definitely a cold, unfeeling sociopath. This book would have been much more insightful had Dr. Ablow actually spoken with Peterson, but he did speak to Peterson's family members and ex-girlfriends. Part of Peterson's personality is revealed through Dr. Ablow's interviews, but (as with all sociopaths) not all. Probably, Peterson himself doesn't truly know his own personality.
The only part of the book I did not care for was Dr. Ablow's opinion of Laci's personality, as being someone who wanted to make things "pretty" and cared about outside appearances. Some of his writing, intentional or not, seemed to suggest that Laci's own ignorance over her husband and desire to keep things respectful and appearances up may have contributed to her own murder. Regardless of how little Laci may have known about her own husband, she was the victim in this story and definitely did not deserve what happened to her.
All in all, an interesting and sometimes mind boggling journey into the deep, dark and empty heart of a sociopath.

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A FACINATING MYSTERY SOLVED!!

FOR ANYONE WHO FOLLOWED THE SCOTT PETERSON MYSTERY & WONDERED MANY TIMES HOW A PERSON THAT APPEARED AS A NORMAL, HANDSOME, SERENE, YOUNG MAN COULD SOMEHOW TURN INTO A MONSTER TO MURDER HIS WIFE & UNBORN SON, THIS IS THE BOOK THAT WILL ANSWER THAT QUESTION. IT SOLVED MANY QUESTIONS IN MY MIND. IT IS A BOOK THAT YOU WILL NOT WANT TO PUT DOWN & THAT YOU WILL DEFINATELY WANT TO RECOMMEND TO YOUR FRIENDS. A MUST READ!!!

Shrink Wrapping Scott Petersen

I believe many people watching the Scott Petersen case in the media (Court TV, etc.) felt that there was something "weird" about the guy. He surely didn't ACT like a husband whose wife and unborn son was missing. The biggest clue to his guilt was that smirk/smile leading up to the discovery of Laci/Connor, and repeated again in his trial. His famous defense attorney was as bad as him with his own arrogant smile and jokes during the DEAD serious testimony in court. A competent defense attorney would have told Scott too dump that SMILE in court, not mimicked it!

I can buy most of the author's opinions in this book about the motives for Scott's murdering his wife and child. His mother also appeared weird and "abnormal" from the git-go, confirmed after people learned about her past life (abandoning her children after being dumped by the biological fathers, etc.). I don't buy the author's assumption that Scott's birth problems were a major factor in his future mental collapse.

You don't need a PHD and/or MD degree to know that Scott was the murderer almost from day 1 of Laci gone missing. Huge common sense clues to his guilt: Scott's fishing "alibi" just before Xmas; Amber/Scott audio tapes of his love sick infatuation with her while his wife was still missing; numerous TV interviews with him where his talk (body and mouth) told us this guy was a phony and a very bad actor.

This book confimed what many people already diagnosed on their own, with Mr. Ablow filling in all the psycho-analytical details about the TRUE Scott Petersen. A majority of people would not have made it as a juror in this court case because they couldn't truthfully tell the judge they had no opinion about the guilt of Scott after watching the media attention on this crime. A perfect juror would be a guy or gal who lived in the hills with no TV, magazines, newspapers, PC at their disposal.

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