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The Oslo Massacre and the Motivation of Mass Murder

07.31.2011

Slain CEO and His Accused Assassin: The Backstories

03.11.2025
Suppression Testimony Completed in Sept. 11 Case

11.12.2024
Government Witness Testifies to “Free Will” Of USS Cole Suspect in Guantanamo Interrogations

04.20.2023
Youthful Killers Need In-Depth Review

02.03.2023
Why would Michelle Martens give false statements? An expert explains why

02.03.2023
Forensic psychiatrist examines detachment in Brian Walshe case

01.18.2023
Kaitlin Armstrong testimony: Killer's first shot was to Wilson's face

01.15.2023
Idaho killings: Obsessional or aspirational crime?

01.11.2023
There's a pathway that distinguishes mass shooters

07.05.2022
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner breaks down why Brian Laundrie parents' might be helping him

10.07.2021
How to understand the mind of a mass killer

10.03.2017
The White House Commission on Radical Islam: A Recommendation

02.22.2017
Closing Arguments Set to Begin in Etan Patz Murder Retrial

01.29.2017
Kansas Supreme Court upholds capital murder conviction, death sentence of Scott Cheever

07.22.2016
Forensic Psychiatrist: Islamist Terrorism & Sexual Repression

07.14.2016
What the Orlando Shooter's Past Habits Reveal About the Attack

06.15.2016
Forensic Psychiatrist: 'Crazy' Has Nothing to Do With Terrorism

03.29.2016
What is the root of ISIS's appeal?

03.16.2015
PART SIX: What Was "Mentally Unstable" About the Perpetrator of the Sydney Lindt Café Terror Attack?

01.01.2015
PART FIVE: What Was "Mentally Unstable" About the Perpetrator of the Sydney Lindt Café Terror Attack?

01.01.2015
PART FOUR: What Was "Mentally Unstable" About the Perpetrator of the Sydney Lindt Café Terror Attack?

01.01.2015
PART THREE: What Was "Mentally Unstable" About the Perpetrator of the Sydney Lindt Café Terror Attack?

01.01.2015
PART TWO: What Was "Mentally Unstable" About the Perpetrator of the Sydney Lindt Café Terror Attack?

01.01.2015
PART ONE: What Was "Mentally Unstable" About the Perpetrator of the Sydney Lindt Café Terror Attack?

01.01.2015
PART TWELVE: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

10.29.2014
PART THREE: New English Review Interview

10.03.2014
PART TWO: New English Review Interview

10.02.2014
PART ONE: New English Review Interview

10.01.2014
PART ELEVEN: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

09.30.2014
PART TEN: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

09.24.2014
PART NINE: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

09.10.2014
PART EIGHT: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

09.10.2014
PART SEVEN: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

09.03.2014
PART SIX: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

08.27.2014
Foley Beheading a Performance: Rapper Extends Father’s Terror Legacy

08.26.2014
PART FIVE: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

08.20.2014
Mob Mentality: Why They Riot

08.18.2014
PART FOUR: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

08.13.2014
Michael Welner M.D., on Bill Bennett's Morning in America

08.06.2014
PART THREE: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

08.05.2014
PART TWO: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

07.25.2014
PART ONE: Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

07.23.2014
WHAT IS MUNCHAUSEN-BY-PROXY?

07.16.2014
Lacey Spears: Munchausen's role in case remains to be seen

06.22.2014
SB Shooting Prompts Question: Should Parents of Mentally Ill Adults Be Able To Commit Them?

05.30.2014
Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Mental Health Testimony Transcript

05.29.2014
Dr. Welner Testifies in Congress on Serious Mental Illness and Family in Wake of Isla Vista Massacre

05.29.2014
Dr. Welner on New Day in the Wake of Isla Vista: What Prompts a Killer to Act?

05.27.2014
The Real Reason The US Has So Many Mass Shootings

05.26.2014
Responses to Queries of Subcommittee on Health

05.05.2014
Parents turn homicidal far too often

04.02.2014
In Landmark Case, United States Supreme Court Unanimously Rules in Support of Psychiatric Testimony

12.11.2013
Dr. Michael Welner on Mass Killing and Mental Illness

11.12.2013
Supreme Court Decision Kansas v. Cheever

10.16.2013
London Atrocity, Stockholm Chaos: After Denial Becomes Impossible, A Proactive Paradigm to Prompt Islam to Reform Itself

05.29.2013
What Drives a Boy to Kill?

05.15.2013
Mass Murder: What Priests, Rabbis and Clerics Must Do to Eliminate this Social Catastrophe

03.10.2013
Dr. Welner to Congress: Families are Front Line; Change Laws to Help Caregivers Protect Community

03.08.2013
Dr. Welner: Violent Entertainment is Poison that is Polluting our Culture

03.07.2013
Mass Murder: What Teachers Can and Must Do to Eliminate This Social Catastrophe

03.04.2013
Mass Murder: What We Can Do As the General Public to Eliminate this Social Catastrophe

03.01.2013
Dr. Welner: Lanza and the Depravity of Breivik

02.18.2013
Christopher Dorner: Spectacle Killing and the Media

02.14.2013
The Real Dorner Message?

02.13.2013
Mass Killers: Myths and Facts

02.04.2013
Mass Murder: What Neighbors Can and Must Do to Eliminate this Social Catastrophe

01.13.2013
Mass Murder: What Each of Us Can and Must Do to Eliminate this Social Catastrophe

01.11.2013
Dr. Michael Welner on the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre: 'This is an indefensible act'

12.18.2012
Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner on the Newtown CT Shooting

12.17.2012
Mass murders in Newtown spark wider debate on violence

12.16.2012
Louisiana Death Row Inmate Freed After Rare Prosecution-Defense Forensic Science Collaboration

10.04.2012
Dr. Welner, Forensic Psychiatrist, analyzes shooters mindsets

08.08.2012
Colorado tragedy and the shooter's psychiatrist: Was prevention realistic?

08.02.2012
What motivated suspected movie theater gunman?

07.22.2012
Omar Khadr: Peace-loving Canadian or al-Qaeda royalty?

07.18.2012
Forensic Psychiatrist Michael Welner On Sandusky HPD Defense

06.17.2012
Aruba Mystery: Is Gary Giordano Unemotional?

12.05.2011
Psychiatrist analyzes Sandusky behavior

11.20.2011
Mob Violence: Psychological Myths, Facts, Solutions

08.11.2011
The Oslo Massacre and the Motivation of Mass Murder

07.31.2011
Interview with Dr. Michael Welner on False Confessions

04.06.2011
Op-Ed, The National Post: Facing Jihad's Risk a Corrections Issue, Inside Gitmo and Out

02.16.2011
Uma Thurman's Stalker Arrested for a Second Time:Jack Jordan Violates Restraining Order by Calling Thurman

12.02.2010
Khadr has never renounced jihad, says expert

10.20.2010
No evidence Khadr's a 'good kid,' doctor says

10.20.2010
Child Sexual Abuse: 6 Stages of Grooming

10.18.2010
Judge Patrick Parrish on the torture claims of Omar Khadr and his interrogation

09.17.2010
Dr. Welner's report on Omar Khadr

07.05.2010
Psychology Behind the Aaron Vargas Case

05.21.2010
ABC News' 20/20 Features Unique Psychological Sadism Case With Analysis by Michael Welner, M.D.

05.20.2010
Landmark Decision on Smart's Kidnapper Will Impact Terrorism and Other Cases

03.12.2010
Competency Finding in Beheading Case Eased by Panel Inquiry

03.11.2010
Brian David Mitchell Memorandum Decision

03.01.2010
The Psychology of Polygamous Sects and Their Leaders

03.01.2010
Polygamy Sect Research Set for Release at Forensic Science Annual Summit

02.25.2010
False Confession Testimony Denied, Lowery Guilty

02.21.2010
Inside the Mind of the Health Club Shooter

08.06.2009
Blog Details Shooter's Frustration

08.06.2009
Mitchell Headed to Another Competency Hearing

06.18.2009
Dr. Michael Welner's Report on Brian David Mitchell

06.16.2009
PA High Court Affirms Death Verdict, Preserves Psychiatric Interview of Witnesses

11.29.2008
Is Anne Hathaway's Ex a Con Man?

06.27.2008
The Mind of a Stalker

04.30.2008
Inside the Mind of a Shooter

02.09.2008
What Pushes Shooters Over the Edge?

02.09.2008
Heath Ledger: Accident Or Suicide?

01.28.2008
Steps Being Taken on Abuse of 'Bupe,' Health Officials Say

01.25.2008
Risky Drug Combinations -- a Fickle Fix?

01.24.2008
In Competency Evaluations, Training Will Matter

05.18.2007
Blacksburg and Terror: No One Follows a Pervert

05.01.2007
Expert: Pay Attention to Paranoia

04.20.2007
Dr. Michael Welner on the Virginia Tech shooting and the correct approach to understanding schizophrenia

04.20.2007
Cho Likely Schizophrenic, Evidence Suggests

04.17.2007
Forensic Psychiatrist's Evaluation of Anna Nicole Smith's Cause of Death

03.26.2007
Expert Looks Behind Mohammed's Confessions

03.15.2007
Beneath the Surface of the Tara Grant Case

03.05.2007
Expert: What Makes a Mass Killer?

02.13.2007
Q & A with Michael Welner, M.D. on the Anna Nicole Smith Case

02.12.2007
Expert Opinion: What Killed Anna Nicole Smith?

02.09.2007
Memorandum Decision - Beumel vs. Indiana

12.28.2006
Right Now or They're Dead

10.11.2006
Does Karr Believe He Did It?

08.30.2006
Inside the Mind of John Karr

08.24.2006
Karr offered details in Ramsey murder only investigators and medical examiner knew

08.18.2006
Is Karr Really Guilty?

08.18.2006
Despite 'Not Guilty' Verdict, Doctor Who Examined Yates Is Unconvinced

07.27.2006
The Mind of Moussaoui

04.23.2006
Duke University Rape Scandal

04.11.2006
Kansas Woman Charged with Killing a Pregnant Woman and Stealing Her Unborn Child

12.20.2004
Crystal Meth Kills in Unexpected Ways

09.05.2004
The Mind Of Scott Peterson

06.02.2004
Pedophile in Robes?

08.26.2003
Panel Discusses Andrew Luster's Capture

06.25.2003
War in Iraq: DNA and Saddam Hussein

04.15.2003
Panel Discusses Laci Peterson Case

01.29.2003
Washington Area Sniper Still at Large

10.21.2002
Prosecution expert portrays Baumhammers as calculating and in control

05.07.2001
Xerox Shootings Trial

06.02.2000
American Bomber: Traveling the Road to Destruction

03.02.1998