Psychological DNA A Cold Case Analysis of Who Killed Robert F. Kennedy

by Brady, John C.

• ISBN13: 9781634244879
• ISBN10: 1634244877
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-07-04
• Publisher: Trine Day

Summary

It has been more than fifty years since presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, RFK, was murdered at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel in L.A. only five years after his brother John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged shooter who gunned down RFK, the man with an odd name, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, (Sirhan) a twenty-four-year old Palestinian was apprehended at the scene of the crime with the smoking gun still in his hand leading to the conclusion that this seemingly was an open and shut case, or was it? Subsequently, Sirhan was tried and convicted of first-degree murder though his appointed defense team stitched together a poorly formed, modified insanity defense complicated by many unforced errors made by attorneys and expert psychologists and internationally known psychiatrist, Dr. Bernard Diamond. In PSYCH DNA, Dr. Brady who was immersed in the case from the beginning using modern criminological methods and new psychological assessment tools not available five decades ago has reassessed Sirhan’ s mental state arriving at five current mental conditions that, in his opinion, if presented at trial could have changed the jury’ s verdict and spared Sirhan a trip to San Q

Author Biography

Dr. John C. Brady II, a California-licensed forensic psychologist, is the author of six true crime books in his Bad Actor Series. He is a psychologist and criminologist with a masters and doctorate in criminology from UC Berkeley. He has used both disciplines and his forty-plus years in private practice to discover why ordinary, law-abiding people suddenly begin to engage in criminal acts. In this seventh and most recent book, Psych DNA, he explains the criminal-psychological drivers that led Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Dr. Brady has diagnosed and treated dissociati

Table of Contents

FOREWORD [to come— perhaps from Jesse Ventura] INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 Setting the Stage in Retrospect Chapter 2 Sirhan’ s Motivation— Purely Political Chapter 3 Background of the Case Chapter 4 The Diminished Capacity Defense Chapter 5 Expert Perspectives on Sirhan’ s Psychological Profile Chapter 6 The Rorschach Results Chapter 7 A Parade of Doctors Testify Chapter 8 Dr. Bernard L. Diamond’ s Focus Chapter 9 Sirhan’ s Identity Transformation Erotomania: What is it? Chapter 10 Sirhan’ s Psych Tests Results Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(MMPI) Chapter 11 Reassessing Sirhan’ s Psychiatric Diagnoses Chapter 12 C-PTSD and the Conversion of Sirhan Chapter 13 Sirhan’ s Additional Identity Transformations Chapter 14 Sirhan’ s Mystery Diary EPILOGUE GLOSSARY APPENDIX Sirhan’ s Rorschach Coding ABOUT THE AUTHOR