In this TV show, there’s a lot of psychological issues that it explores. For example in one episode the issue that we can see is defense mechanisms because in that episode there’s a women that kills to avoid the unpleasent emotions that she has when she doesn’t kill. Also the FBI tries to find out why is she killing a lot of people. They soon find out it’s because she experienced a traumatic event. They find that her brain doesn’t protect itself by deeply burying these memories in the unconscious mind because when she had the car accident, she had frontal lobe damage which causes her to kill.

What we can learn about the workings of mind and behavior from this TV show is that the FBI agents get into the minds of the killers, so they can know more about why that person is kiling. By doing so they catch the killer easier. In that same episode, the women mind and behavior works by she pulls her own hair out after she kills or is thinking about killing because it heps her relieve stress. This is like the pleasure principle because if she doesn’t pull her hair after she kills or thinking about killing then her stress won’t go away.

In another episode, one of the FBI agents exhibit eveidence of the unconscious. Nobody knows that he had something traumatic happen to him. He didn’t show it because that memorie is buried in his unconscious mind. He then later tells everyone becuase they had a case that was similar to what had happened to him. Also shows repression because he unknownigly bury his emotions into his unconscious to avoid them.