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Whoa. This author over at Cryptomundo has an interesting line of thought regarding the Greyhound decapitation, which may have spawned a copycat killing in Greece; possibly in Brazil and Dubai as well.

The Dark Knight is cursed, writes one blogger. Heath Ledger’s dead. The Batman has lashed out at his own mother, and now Morgan Freeman has been in a terrible car crash, just prior to getting divorced. MORE

The Joker’s Subliminal trigger?

Can this get any creepier?

It sure can.

Above: Tim Maclean, from his MySpace.

Check out the photos of Tim Maclean’s Insane Clown Posse tattoo, gleaned from his MySpace.

I wonder when the Canadian MSM will thread this stuff together, or whether the bloggers will have to slog this one out. I suppose these theories can be put to rest by simply asking Vincent Li if he’s seen The Dark Knight. Then we might be able to rule out the possibility of certain people being psychologically sensitive to potentially subliminal psychological triggers of violent behaviour. I suppose the simplest explanation suffices: Tim Maclean asked Vincent Li not to hit on his co-worker, and Vincent Li retaliated.

Here’s a lead: Dr. Colin A. Ross, in an interview from a while back:

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com

C.R. The basic criteria for diagnosing it are pretty straightforward. You have these different personality states, or identities, that take turns being in control of the body. There is some sort of amnesia, or memory barrier, between the different personality states. There are several important points to understand about this disorder. First of all, it is not literally true that they have these different personalities. They just have these fragmented components of one personality. Those have been referred to as different “personalities” for over one hundred years, but they are not really different personalities. There isn’t really more than one person there. And there are several different ways you can end up having MPD. One way, which is what we think we see most of the time clinically is where you have basically been physically, sexually, emotionally abused or neglected as a child and you create these different identities to cope with it, and hold the memories and feelings about it, and so on. That can be, as I said, a combination of various types of trauma in childhood, and it has to be fairly serious trauma. And another way that you can get MPD is where it is created, either by mistake, or deliberately, by somebody else. And that could be in bad therapy, which is all out of control and not being handled properly. And the other major way of arriving at MPD is when you have what is called a Factitious Disorder. That means that they deliberately fake having it by deliberately getting into the patient role to get attention, or get out of something, or for some specific purpose.

W.M. Have you seen this disorder occur due to trauma as an adult, or does it specifically happen while a child?

C.R. Well, there are some cases reported in the literature and there is the odd case where it is trauma that starts in adulthood, but the vast majority of times it seems to start in childhood.

W.M. We have listened to your lecture about the history of United States’ mind control. You refer to the term “iatrogenic”. What does that mean?

C.R. “Iatrogenic” is just a Greek word that means “created by the doctor”. So Iatrogenic Multiple Personality is MPD that is created by mistake by a bad therapist who is using improper techniques.

W.M. How did you get involved with people suffering with DID?

C.R. I actually diagnosed my first case when I was a medical student in Edmonton, Alberta and I just really found it fascinating and interesting and when I was doing my four years of psychiatry training in Winnipeg, Manitoba I saw one more case, and I thought it was going to be too rare to specialize in … but then in 1985, when I finished my psychiatry training I diagnosed another case, and then I got some referrals and then more referrals, and then I got a reputation for it and ended up getting lots of referrals from all different kinds of people in Western Canada and gradually switched over to that being my specialty.

W.M. And this was when you were operating a practice in Winnipeg, or was it in Edmonton, at the time?

C.R. Winnipeg. I was a full-time University Professor of Psychiatry at the time at one of the hospitals there.