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Charles Whitman
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Charles Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who killed 14 people and wounded 32 others as part of a shooting rampage on and around the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. He did this shortly after murdering his wife and mother at their homes. Raised in an upper middle class family with an abusive father, the development stages of Whitman were erratic and he developed values that echoed both his father's domineering personality while trying to incorporate the nurturing values of the mother. Eventually, through the course of time and acquisition, Whitman would form a schema that caused him confusion and frustration that affected his own values. Although the above issues were of no degree to cause his actions on in 1966, his health, family deterioration, and heavy use of amphetamines to stay awake for days at a time to study, finally forced their weight on him. Between the brain tumor and all the other previously mentioned issues, Whitman was driven by his failures in the Marines, as a student at the University of Texas, personal expectations and psychotic features he expressed in his a written note. sr
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