A disturbing look into the minds of twenty-one murderers, as well as one doctor's harrowing account of getting to know them, My Life Among Serial Killers is part scientific case study, part personal account. Combining medical insight with her own chilling anecdotes, Dr. Helen Morrison, criminal psychiatry's real-life Clarice Starling, offers readers unprecedentedly close access to some of the world's most depraved and well-known killers. Debunking accepted psychological theory, Morrison offers her unique take on how the personality of a multiple killer is formed (permanently, she believes, by the age of eighteen months). This mesmerizing, controversial book raises haunting questions for all of society: Are serial killers born? Does childhood abuse really play any part in the formation of a killer's psyche? Are serial killers neurologically different from the rest of humanity?

Debunking accepted psychological theory, Helen Morrison offers her own take on how the personality of a multiple killer is formed (permanently, she believes, by the age of 18 months). She provides an account of 21 murderers, which is part scientific case study, part personal account.