Ann Wolbert Burgess

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Ann C. Wolbert Burgess (born October 2, 1936 ) is an American specialist clinical nurse and professor of psychiatric nursing at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College . She is considered a pioneer in research into rape trauma.

life and career

Burgess earned a BS in Nursing from Boston University and a MS in Nursing from the University of Maryland and a PhD from Boston University.

In the mid-1970s, she and sociologist Lynda Lytle Holmstrom founded one of the first crisis intervention programs for rape victims at Boston City Hospital. During their work, the two more symptoms, the rape victim after the crime identified show and we adopted them in 1974 under the term Rape Trauma Syndrome ( rape trauma syndrome ) together.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Burgess used her expertise to support the FBI's behavioral research department in investigating serial offenders and the development of modern profiling in the USA. She published the results of the investigation together with FBI agents Robert Ressler and John E. Douglas in the Criminal Personality Study (1980) and the book Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (1988).

reception

The figure of Dr. Wendy Carr, played by Anna Torv , from the Netflix series Mindhunter is based on Burgess. However, the screenwriters claimed their artistic freedom, so there are significant differences between the series character and Burgess. While Dr. Carr moves to Quantico on the show , Burgess advised the FBI from Boston. Dr. Carr is a lesbian and childless; Burgess is married to a man in real life and is a mother. Additionally, Torv's character is a psychologist by profession, while Burgess is a specialist clinical nurse.

Publications (selection)

  • Burgess, AW, Holmstrom, LL: The Victim of Rape: Institutional Reactions. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ 1991, ISBN 0-87855-932-9 .
  • Burgess, AW, Regehr, C., & Roberts, A .: Victimology: Theories and Applications . Jones & Bartlett, Sudbury, Massachusetts 2019, ISBN 978-1-284-13019-5 .
  • Douglas, JE, Burgess, AW, Burgess, AG & Ressler, RK: Crime Classification Manual: A standard system for investigating and classifying violent crime . Wiley, New York, NY 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-30505-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rape Trauma Syndrome . In: The American Journal of Psychiatry . 131, No. 9, 1974, pp. 981-986. doi : 10.1176 / ajp.131.9.981 . PMID 4415470 .
  2. ↑ a b Michael A. Fuoco: The real-life Dr. Wendy Carr says 'Mindhunter' gets most of it right. In: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 13, 2019, accessed January 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Burgess, Ann Wolbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgess, Ann C. Wolbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1936