Psychokillers: The Mind on Trial

science, social, true crime · EN

Every true crime fan thinks they know what "insanity" looks like. Psychokillers puts the mind itself on trial. Each episode takes a famous case—killers whose names everyone knows—and asks what forensic psychology actually says about mental illness and violent crime, and how the justice system's treatment of severe mental illness compares to the courtroom drama version. Along the way, we put popular misconceptions on the witness stand: the idea that psychosis equals violence, that "psychopath" is a clinical diagnosis, and that the insanity defense is a get-out-of-jail-free card. Gripping storytelling grounded in clinical evidence, not Hollywood tropes.