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When it comes to the Laci Peterson case, forensic psychiatrist and Court TV expert Keith Ablow knows all the angles. His new book, Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson (St. Martin's Press) painstakingly analyzes what Ablow, 43, calls the psychological "perfect storm" that created Scott Peterson, Murderer. Can Albow, a graduate of Brown and Johns Hopkins Medical School, really get inside the mind of Peterson? You be the judge...
...think affects many men, who come to my office [Albow's clinical practice] for instance, who never share with anyone else the fact that they have very grave misgivings about fatherhood. Some of them are simply anxious; others are very depressed. There is a whole spectrum, and Scott Peterson is an [extreme] on that spectrum, but he still is a way for us to get into the question, what are men really thinking when their wives are pregnant...
...involvement in the case started as a commentator for Court TV, and then on Oprah, providing the beginnings of my theory about what had created Scott Peterson. That resulted in Sharon Roche [Laci's mother] calling me, and saying that it was the first one that made sense to her. Anne Bird [Scott's half-sister] called and said the same thing...
...regard Scott Peterson as a sociopath...
...Basically, the core human characteristic that I think is so magnificent, and that allows us to relate to human beings as human beings, is empathy. For Scott Peterson and the rest of sociopaths, they don't have that. Having been crushed psychologically in childhood, they have made a decision to live in denial of their own feelings. Once they no longer feel fear, or any kind of real love or anxiety themselves, they no longer can feel any of those things for anyone else. They can't resonate with the pain of others. So they're free, in a terrible...