The Good Lie

We’re stuck, in a hypothetical canoe, in the middle of the lake, with no one to row but ourselves.

Obsession, as I frequently told my clients, never affected outside situations. They only made your internal struggles—and resulting personal actions and decisions—worse.

Killing is the easy part. The act of living—of finding happiness in life—that’s the hard part.

“Well, no. Now that you know everything that happens.”

Detective Saxe chuckled. Chuckled. I guess I wasn’t the only one unable to tell a killer when he was standing right in front of me.

You couldn’t earn trust without giving it.

“I’m here to see if Robert Kavin is crazy.”

Dissociative identity disorder was commonly known as multiple personality disorder.

Paranoid schizophrenia was the most common mental disorder diagnosed among any criminal, but especially serial killers.

Serial killers are often overtaken by their id, due to a weak ego and superego. The psychodynamic theory blames those weak egos on a lack of proper development—typically during adolescence, and often from trauma.