Summary:
Summarizes the novel Red Dragon, written by Thomas Harris.
This book is based on a serial killer named Frances Dolarhyde. Whenobserving Frances behavior I wondered if his actions were due to thepersonality disorder schizophrenia, but I do not believe this is the case, the more Iwatched and observed his behavior I came to realize that, in my opinion, he hasdissociative identity disorder also known as multiple personality disorder.Due to being born with a cleft palate, Frances was abandoned by hismother. His grandmother stepped in to take the role of his guardian. She was veryabusive to Frances from the time he was a small child. We could refer to her asbeing an authoritarian parent. Grandmother would call Frances a "filthy littlebeast" and tell him that no one could ever love a "filthy little beast." Frances as achild had the problem of bed wetting, this could have.....
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