The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius
- Authors
- Willock, Brent
- Publisher
- Torchflame Books
- Tags
- oscar pistorius;reeva steencamp;wrongful conviction;parasomnia;south africa;dreams;dream enactment;violence;violent parasomnia;sleep disorders;sleepsex (sexsomnia);somnambulism;paradoxical sleep;sleep terror (pavor nocturnes);confusional arousal;rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (rbd);dreamwalking;shame;non-insane automatism;involuntarism;altered states of consciousness;male socialization;inattentional blindness;parasomnia overlap disorder;psychoanalysis;freud;carlos schenck;rosalind cartwright;michel cramer bornemann;mark mahowald;june steencamp;barry roux;gerrie nel;melanie klein;persecutory object;paranoid-schizoid position;trauma;oedipus complex
- ISBN
- 9781611532678
- Date
- 2018-05-08
- Size
- 5.92 MB
- Lang
- en
Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius' meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock's scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an astonishing re-view.Oscar's spectacular assent to fame ground to a screeching halt in the wee hours of Valentine's Day, 2013. Hearing a sound emanating from his bathroom, he grabbed his pistol and he stumbled to the washroom, screaming at the intruders to leave. Fearing someone was about to emerge to harm him and his girlfriend, Reeva, he fired four bullets into the toilet chamber. Soon he realized he had killed his lover. Horrified, he summoned the authorities. The investigating detective believed this was yet another case of an escalating argument where the man murdered his partner. World opinion is split. Some believe Oscar. Others are convinced he committed a despicable crime of passion.Distinguished clinical psychologist Brent Willock brings an...