Guess I played too much Grand Theft Auto 3 as a teen.

[xdawnofanewdayx]

We're now on Behavioral Sciences (aka Psychiatry) in class, and we were presented with this image as part of a Thematic Apperception Test and told to come up with a story:

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[skyringer]

Yeah.

Totally follow your train of thought LOL

[karachiking]

Or maybe it's his sister. He went to ask her if she wanted waffles for breakfast, and then it's "Whoa! Sibling boobs!" so he had to avert his eyes.

[xdawnofanewdayx]

I totally see it

One psych student friend of mine told me that I write my "O"s like a psychopath.

[wurmwyd]

Hi there!

I don't know whether I'm psychotic or not. I saw the picture, with your description, and thought: "Okay, so they obviously WANT us to think that it's some sort of violent murder, but I bet it's some kind of innocent "The guy's wife died of cancer" or something...". To me, the OBVIOUS choice was the dead hooker, but I got the feeling that it was going to be something less creepy.

Patricia Cornwell, being a brilliant mystery writer, (whom I've never read, sooooo) Once attempted to solve the Jack the Ripper mysteries by using her resources and insight into the mind of a killer. What she came up with, was that the murders were performed by Walter Sickert, who was an artist friend of Prince Albert. When the evidence was presented, it made a pretty shaky case for him being the Ripper. He probably knew something about the crimes, and might even have known who DID do the crimes. But whether he was actually Jack remains to be seen.

But one damning piece of evidence was this painting, depicting the Camden Town Murders

Re: One psych student friend of mine told me that I write my "O"s like a psychopath.

[bafabegiya]

I, for one, also saw it as a murder scene (of the not-so-innocent variety). Perhaps a jealous, cuckolded husband shot his hot-to-trot after discovering her mid-tryst. I had no foreknowledge of the of Sickert's work or the photo to which you provided a link. The logical conclusion is that, if you're a dangerous sociopath, I should probably be locked up.

Court: after I read the suggested interpretation--specifically the "old gentleman" bit the first thing I thought was "Nuh-uh! If that guy's old he TOTALLY married a trophy wife. Just look at those boobs." My next thought was "Bet she never expected to die BEFORE him. Hahaha...tables are turned now, eh?"

This from the psych major. There's *really* something wrong with me.

Re: One psych student friend of mine told me that I write my "O"s like a psychopath.

[wurmwyd]

Hi there!

Yeah, when I first saw this pic, it looked to me like someone cherry picked elements from the Sickert painting and blended them with elements from the Mary Kelly crime scene photo, ... but then realized that the guy waas standing in the way of her head, so flipped it so the woman's head was on the other end of the bed. (Wow! Now that I look at it again, doesn't it TOTALLY LOOK like the artist started to draw her head on the other side of the bed, then screwed up and changed it? I'm convinced that that's what happened!!) It just looks like an amalgamation of those images. I also don't understand how the gentleman is OLD. He's standing up perfectly straight, with good posture, he's got his arm in front of his face, and has hair that COULD be gray, but it's a black & White image, so he could just be blond

Re: One psych student friend of mine told me that I write my "O"s like a psychopath.

[bafabegiya]

You know--it *does* look as though the artist meant to draw the head at the other end of the bed.

I write the letter "o" counterclockwise as well. But doesn't learning to write in script encourage this? Since English is written from left to right it's never occurred to me that one might not form one's letters in the same direction. Once, however, I noted that a friend wrote the letters "f" and "t" from bottom to top. My mind was blown, as I've always written mine from top to bottom. To each [psychopath], his own, I suppose.