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Forensic Psychology

Forensic Psychology

Written by: Circle Of Insight Productions
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Dr. Carlos is an adjunct Professor in Forensic Psychology and Criminal psychopathology. He discusses concepts in the world of forensic psychology. He discusses legal issues pertaining to forensic psychology, psychology disorders, the criminal justice system and moreCopyright Circle Of Insight Productions Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science
Episodes
  • The Nonsense Defense: Ganser Syndrome, Malingering, and the Psychology of Faking Madness

    The Nonsense Defense: Ganser Syndrome, Malingering, and the Psychology of Faking Madness
    Jul 16 2026
    Ganser Syndrome is one of the most bizarre and contested diagnoses in all of forensic psychiatry, a condition where individuals give deliberately approximate but almost-correct answers to simple questions, as if performing madness rather than experiencing it. This episode examines the clinical history of the syndrome, its signature feature of Vorbeireden, and the razor-thin forensic line between genuine dissociative presentation and calculated courtroom theater. We explore what Ganser cases reveal about the psychology of deception, the limits of psychiatric evaluation, and what it means when the mind chooses absurdity as its armor.
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  • The Confession Trap: Why Melissa Ellison’s Killer Called the Police After 39 Years of Silence

    The Confession Trap: Why Melissa Ellison’s Killer Called the Police After 39 Years of Silence
    Jul 13 2026
    On December 28, 1987, 20 year old Melissa Ellison was beaten to death in her Jacksonville mobile home while her 13 month old daughter sat crying on the living room couch. For nearly four decades the case sat cold, until this month, when 70 year old Gary Edward Glowacz picked up the phone and called the sheriff’s office himself. This episode examines the psychology behind why unidentified offenders sometimes surface on their own after decades of silence, and what that impulse reveals about guilt, aging, and the collapse of long term concealment.
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  • Narco-Terrorism and the Criminal Mind: What the 22nd MEU's Caribbean Campaign Reveals About Cartel Psychology, Organizational Violence, and

    Narco-Terrorism and the Criminal Mind: What the 22nd MEU's Caribbean Campaign Reveals About Cartel Psychology, Organizational Violence, and
    Jul 8 2026
    The transnational narco-terrorist networks that the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit spent ten months hunting across the Caribbean under Operation Southern Spear are not simply criminal organizations that happen to carry weapons, they are hierarchically sophisticated, psychologically coercive institutions that have evolved deliberate organizational cultures built around controlled violence, paranoid loyalty enforcement, and the systematic psychological conditioning of members at every level to normalize lethality as a routine instrument of business and territorial control. This episode applies a forensic psychology lens to what the scale and military character of the 22nd MEU's counter-narcotics deployment tells us about how far cartel organizations have traveled from street-level drug trafficking toward something that more closely resembles a paramilitary state, examining the leadership psychology, coercive control structures, and collective identity mechanisms that allow these networks to absorb law enforcement and military pressure, reconstitute themselves, and continue operating across international boundaries with a level of organizational resilience that conventional criminal justice frameworks were never designed to confront. Drawing on the operational realities exposed by Southern Spear, this episode asks what forensic psychology, organizational behavior science, and the emerging literature on narco-terrorism can tell us about why these organizations are so difficult to permanently dismantle and what it would actually take to break the psychological and social infrastructure that keeps them alive. IAB Tags: Health/Medical/Mental Health, Crime/True Crime, Military/Defense, Law/Government/Legal, Society/Issues, Education, News/Politics Let me know if you want a narco or covert operations version added to complete the full set.




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