Hodges suggests that this method of scientific psychological investigation of the text and context of criminal actions can offer important dimensions to criminal investigation. For other participants in the complex drama, he offers a voice and resolution. Hodges speaks even for JonBenet as he constructs the events of her last hours and tells the truth that is hers. Hodges, who analyzes the communication of all parties. The analogy in this case is of course the outsider, Dr. Much of her motivation and the impressively symbolic elements she uses, however, refer to meanings that are most likely unknown and unconscious to her.Īn observer, such as a teacher, supervisor, or consultant can often read the symbolic communication of the therapy dyad more clearly than can the therapist. In this case, the writings and communications contain some that presumably Mrs. We therefore consider symbolically represented content to be unconscious. Symbolic communication means that the symbol stands for something unknown to the speaker. (In criminal contexts motive is synonymous with adaptive context.) The communicative approach uses analysis of symbols and adds adaptive context to the investigative procedure. This is also the working method of the psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Previously ignored information that has not seemed important begins to fit and to support they hypothesis. Further data supports, modifies or refutes the story. The researcher then tests these hypotheses with further data and begins to create a story or working hypothesis. In each procedure, preliminary data suggests initial hypothesis. The clinical method of the psychotherapist is also similar to science. Methods of forensic science, physical science, and psychological science are very similar. He began with the assumption that the so-called ransom note will contain clues, left unconsciously, which would reveal information about its author. Hodges analyzes the text of the available written and spoken communications that surround the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Hodges brilliantly decodes the complex and unusual communications of a very literate woman. Applied here to criminal investigation, Dr. This book is an exceptional example of an application in a non-therapy setting of the communicative approach to listening and interpreting. Raney is a forensic psychiatrist, a practicing psychotherapist, and a supervising analyst at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute. Raney, M.D., International Journal of Communicative Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy 11:4 (1998). “Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?”-a review of A Mother Gone Bad
The reviewer’s impression reflects the growing appreciation among forensic professionals of Dr. Hodges wrote on the JonBenet Ramsey case applying his “thoughtprint decoding” method to the study of the ransom note.
#Key facts on the jonbenet ramsey case professional
The following excerpts are from a professional journal book review by a forensic psychiatrist of the first book Dr. Often cases can be solved by these typically overlooked forensic documents. Unknowingly perpetrators are compelled to secretly confess in emails, journals, interviews, letters, ransom notes, etc. Hodges established a new psycholinguistic forensic science of unconscious communication. Hodges’ books and purchase them from .įor the first time in forensic profiling a suspect’s verbal communication (the ransom note) was decoded for super-intel messages between the lines. In Hodges’ dramatic book “A Mother Gone Bad” he applies his new forensic method “thoughtprint decoding” to the most crucial evidence in the Ramsey case-the ransom note– to reveal the killers. I think his study of the ransom note in the JonBenet Ramsey case was insightful and found his book to be fascinating.”ĭonald Dixon, Chief of Police (Special Agent, F.B.I., retired) FBI As a retired FBI agent and active Chief of Police I have found his unconscious communication technique to be useful. Hodges several times regarding cases where written notes were involved.
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