The secret Suárez in all of us
By Michael Bloomfield
Luis Suárez has been accused of biting another football player. As a psychiatrist I'd ask if primitive Freudian urges explain his
behavior
Italy's Giorgio Chiellini shows an alleged bite mark made by...
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The secret Suárez in all of us
By Michael Bloomfield
Luis Suárez has been accused of biting another football player. As a psychiatrist I'd ask if primitive Freudian urges explain his
behavior
Italy's Giorgio Chiellini shows an alleged bite mark made by Uraguay's Luis Suárez. 'When a person bites
someone, we have to hope it’s an impulsive action.' Photograph: Maurizio Borsari/Rex Features.
I have no idea what Luis Suarez was thinking – either last night when he
appeared to bite Giorgio Chiellini in the Uruguay-Italy game or when he sank his teeth into opponents on the pitch in 2013
and 2010 – and I bet that if we were to ask him he wouldn't know either. That's the point.An act of this nature could never
be premeditated. That would be freaky. When a person – be they a child or, more rarely, an adult – bites someone, we
have to hope it's an impulsive action.
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A report published by the FBI identified three types of violent biter: the experimental, the frustratedand the threatened
biter.
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