The strange case of Thomas Quick : the Swedish serial killer and the psychoanalyst who created him

Josefsson, Dan2015

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In 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Sater, Sweden's equivalent of Broadmoor, and began a course of psychotherapy and benzodiazepines. During the therapy, he began to recover memories so vicious and traumatic that he had repressed them: sickening scenes of childhood abuse, incest and torture, which in turn inspired a series of brutal murders in his adult years. He eventually confessed to raping, killing and even eating more than 30 victims. Embracing the process of self-discovery, he took on a new name: Thomas Quick. He was brought to trial and convicted of 8 murders. In 2008, his confessions were proven to be entirely fabricated and every single conviction was overturned. This book uncovers the tangled web of deceptions and delusions that emerged within the Quick team.