Albert Fish: Borderline Personality Disorder

He had a mental illness, now known as bipolar disease, and Frances ended up caring for him.

In 1910 Albert met a man named Thomas Kedden, whom he began a sadomasochistic relationship. Fish implied the man was mentally disabled. Ultimately, Kedden was taken by Fish to an abandoned farmhouse, where Fish began a two week process of torturing him, eventually cutting off half the man’s penis and killing him. Afraid of somebody smelling it, if he took the body with him, cut into pieces. In 1917 Fish’s wife left him for a young handyman, taking nearly everything they owned, except for their six children. Soon after Fish began having auditory hallucinations. At this time Fish began asking his children and their friends to use a board to spank him, along with self-harming himself using needles, planting them in his abdomen and groin. After his death, needles were found in his pelvic and groin region by

Albert Hamilton Fish, known as the Gray man and the boogey man was born in Washington, DC on May 19, 1870, to Randall Fish. He was 43 years older than his mother and Fish was the youngest child and he had three living siblings: Walter, Annie, and Edwin Fish. Many family member had mental illness. His mother put him into an orphanage and Hamilton wanted to be called “Albert” because that was the name he was given by the orphanage where he spent many of his childhood years. He was frequently whipped and beaten there, and eventually realized that he enjoyed physical pain. The beatings would often give him erections, for which the other orphans teased him.

Hamilton Fish was born on May 19th, 1870 in Washington, D.C to a family with a long list of mental illnesses. As a child Albert lived with his mom and father along with his brothers and sister. Fish's mother suffered from hallucinations, his uncle from religion mania, one brother ended up in a mental institution because he was fibble-minded, the other was an alcoholic, and his sister had a mental affliction. After his father died, his mother was left to work and when she could no longer take care of Albert, she sent him to an orphanage at the age of five. While at the orphanage, Fish was said to have been a trouble child. There him and the other boys were stripped naked and beaten by the teachers frequently in front of everyone. From that experience at a young age, he began to enjoy pain. His mother then found a way to bring him back home, where he met a friend who introduced him to some horrific practices he grew favor to. There are not any

SN Fisher does not show any signs of illness, the way he presented himself while on uniform can indicate that SN Fisher takes good care of his body and grooms within the standards if not above average of the Navy regulations. SN Fisher answered genially to LCDR Davenport on their initial contact. He has the humor to make an argument that because he assaulted a white boy everybody is jumping to conclusions about his mental health. SN Fisher had also made it clear that he is not looking to get discharged from the Navy. SN Fisher showed no interest in sharing with LCDR Davenport what were the precipitating factors that led to his referral for psychiatric evaluation during their initial contact.

They shared that he was not a violent or dangerous man, just deeply disturbed and unwell.

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Another important idea in this chapter has to do with the Oedipus complex. Freud had many patients whom were hysterical and he blamed this on the molestation from parents, but later retracted this idea saying that it could have been just a fantasy that the patient believed. Could it be that this could be a biological disorder in the brain that blocks them from ever overcoming the Oedipus complex?

“Rose’s eyes grew very wide. ‘Never, I will never…’ she knelt down and began bangung her head on hte kitchen floor with rhythmic intensity.” (Bloom 4) Rose mental illness were not only taking a toll on her, but her family also. It brought extra stress upon her mother and father who had to now take care of her and look after her as if she wasn’t an adult.

Albert Fish was born and raised in Washington, D.C. on May 19th, 1870, to his parents Randall, and Ellen. Fish’s father was American, and his mother was Irish American. His father was forty-three years older than his mother, and was seventy-five at the time of fishes’ birth. Albert was the youngest child of three siblings: Annie, Walter, and Edwin. He wanted to be named after a dead sibling to escape from the given nickname “Ham & Eggs” which was given to him at St. John Orphanage where, he spent most of his childhood.” “The family had a history of mental illness.” His mother suffered from visual hallucinations, his brother was in a mental hospital, his sister was diagnosed with mental illness, and uncle suffered from mania. Fish's father was a boat captain and a fertilizer manufacturer. “He soon died of a heart attack in 1875 at the Sixth Street Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Washington, D.C.” ( Blanco, 2017)

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