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For my media-applied paper I decided to use few theories that we studied in class on the serial killer Charles Manson. Even thought his killings happened in the 1960’s there are still people who fear him, yet now an old man in a prison cell. I wondered what created such a person, actually such a monster, so I thought applying the concepts from the class would help me determine his personality or what made him act the way he did. Looking at Erikson’s stages in psychological development, it seems that he got stuck in the basic trust vs. mistrust stage, where he developed a sense of mistrust, because of his avoidant mother who was a 16-year-old prostitute, who often l