The Woman That Created Thomas Quick

The Woman That Created Thomas Quick

59 mins | Documentary | Nov. 26, 2013

Margit Norell - the woman behind the serial killer that was not there. She was a psychotherapist at Säters psychiatric clinic and supervised the psychologists and therapists in the 1990s treatment of Thomas Quick. The treatment method, based on object relations theory, focused on the development of repressed childhood memories with psychotherapy. In the case Thomas Quick argued that abuse in childhood meant that he started murdering people in adulthood. Whereupon Quick admitted one murder after another, and finally was convicted of eight murders.

The Woman That Created Thomas Quick

59 mins | Documentary | Nov. 26, 2013

The Woman That Created Thomas Quick
Margit Norell - the woman behind the serial killer that was not there. She was a psychotherapist at Säters psychiatric clinic and supervised the psychologists and therapists in the 1990s treatment of Thomas Quick. The treatment method, based on object relations theory, focused on the development of repressed childhood memories with psychotherapy. In the case Thomas Quick argued that abuse in childhood meant that he started murdering people in adulthood. Whereupon Quick admitted one murder after another, and finally was convicted of eight murders.
Producers SVT
Original title Kvinnan bakom Thomas Quick
Directors Dan Josefsson
Writers Dan Josefsson

Cast

Margit Norell

as / Chief therapist

Sven Å. Christianson

as / Therapist

Göran Fransson

as Head doctor

Christer van der Kwast

as District attorney