Makes Sense out of a Senseless Act

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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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Makes Sense out of a Senseless Act

I've always wondered what could make someone able to kill someone, especially someone they care about or at least did at one time. This book makes perfect sense and explains the combination of life experiences that create these types of people. A bit scary as it could happen to anyone, but I finally feel like this was an explanation of the why to this senseless act.

A fabulous book

Having spent nearly 10 years advocating for victims of domestic abuse,I found Dr. Ablow's theories to be very accurate. I've listened to hundreds of these identical stories from the victims of potential Scott Peterson's. Despite all the varied names, faces, cultures, relgions, educational and economic situations,etc, their stories are all basically the same. That's because the characteristics and backgrounds of an abuser are all the same.
I've also spent a great deal of time studying the backgrounds of the victims, like Laci, to help me understand why they stay or keep going back to the monsters who hurt and even eventually kill them. I found, the pretend fantasy world, the abusers adopt, is immensley seductive and can shine much brighter than reality. It's when the victim becomes invested in that fantasy, that they will often dismiss the obvious and painful absurdities associated with their relationship experience - despite the grave consequences to themselves and often to their own children and others.
Scott took his pretend fantasies to the extreme, but never-the-less, he was a typical domestic terrorist who had learned how to LOOK good, but had not learned how to make a commitment to actually BE good.
Thank you Dr Ablow for explaining that complicated situation so clearly.

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Great book.

Dr Ablow really makes a plausible theory here on why would this "golden boy" would do such a horrible thing to his wife an unborn son.

It made me understand why some people could be able to kill.

Great book if you want to understand how a human being is capable of taking away another human live. It gives you an insight in to the mind of a sociopath.

"The truth always wins"

After thinking I could no longer stand to hear or read another word about Scott Peterson, this book seemed to jump out at me yesterday while I was browsing at the library. I guess the title really got me. As Catherine Crier mentions in the Forward "no longer do people ask DID Scott Peterson murder Laci...instead they want to know WHY." What goes on inside that head of his???

I really enjoyed this book. I just started it yesterday and am finished today. It reads very fast and it kept me turning the pages. Even if you are fed up with everything Scott, I still think you may find this book worth the read. It explains the dead pan look on Scott's face during the entire trial and his utter lack of any emotion including the fake tears he shed on Good Morning America. Dr. Ablow gives his opinion on why he believes Scott is the way he is. I found it to be very fascinating, though I dont know if I agree with all of Dr. Ablow's beliefs and viewpoints.

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