Amanda Knox and the Pain of False Accusations - Amanda Knox and the Power of Projection | Psychology Today

Amanda Knox and the Pain of False Accusations - Amanda Knox and the Power of Projection | Psychology Today

Amanda Knox and the Power of Projection · Many fantasies are driving responses to the Amanda Knox verdict. by Christopher Lane, Ph.D. What Does It Take to Prove One's Innocence? Catch-22: State destroyed evidence it requires to clear ...

The guileless purity that Knox's family is insisting upon, somewhat frantically, in their daughter squares poorly with the Knox who's been cast by the Italian media as craven and vilely evil, partly because she had several affairs while abroad and partied a bit as an exchange student. (As if many of them don't.) Yet we do know that Knox was quite prepared to defame her boss, Patrick Lumumba, and falsely accuse him of murdering Kercher. Knox's family understandably prefers not to discuss that and other factors strongly counting against her. Read More

Jury may deliver Amanda Knox verdict today - Amanda Knox tearfully told an Italian appeals court today

Jury may deliver Amanda Knox verdict today - Amanda Knox tearfully told an Italian appeals court today

Amanda Knox is escorted into the Perugia court for an appeal hearing, in Perugia central Italy, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Knox, an American student, was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher, her British roommate in Perugia, ...

Amanda Knox tearfully told an Italian appeals court today that she did not kill her British roommate, pleading for the court to give her back her life after years of suffering behind bars. The court began deliberations moments later.

Knox frequently paused for breath as she spoke in Italian to the eight members of the jury in a packed courtroom. She fought back tears and quickly regained composure.

"I've lost a friend in the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible," she said of the murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old Briton who shared an apartment with Knox when they were both students in Perugia. "I'm paying with my life for things that I didn't do." Read More

Amanda Knox: Who is Foxy Knoxy? Amanda Knox's good looks and enigmatic behaviour thrust her to centre stage in the mystery surrounding the murder of Meredith Kercher

Amanda Knox: Who is Foxy Knoxy? Amanda Knox's good looks and enigmatic behaviour thrust her to centre stage in the mystery surrounding the murder of Meredith Kercher.

Her family and friends insist she is the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice. Prosecutors say she is a cold-hearted killer.

The portrayals of Knox have swung wildly from sex-obsessed assassin to wide-eyed innocent abroad.

Prosecutors evoked medieval show trials when they described her as a "witch" and a "she-devil".

Her defence team said she was more like the head-in-the-clouds character played by Audrey Tautou in the film Amelie.

They also compared her to the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, saying she had been depicted as a man-eating femme fatale but was in fact "faithful and loving". Read More

Amanda Knox arrives in court (Fareed Zakaria, Meredith Kercher, Amanda, Amanda Know, Amanda Knox Wiki)

Amanda Knox arrives in court (Fareed Zakaria, Meredith Kercher, Amanda, Amanda Know, Amanda Knox Wiki)

Amanda Knox arrives in court

Amanda Knox arrived at an Italian appeals court Monday, hoping to be freed. An appeals court in Perugia will decide whether to reverse, reduce or extend her sentence on a 2009 murder conviction. Read More

Amanda Knox pleads for her freedom as murder appeal ends | Fareed Zakaria, Meredith Kercher, Amanda, Amanda Know, Amanda Knox Wiki

Amanda Knox pleads for her freedom as murder appeal ends | Fareed Zakaria, Meredith Kercher, Amanda, Amanda Know, Amanda Knox Wiki

Amanda Knox pleads for her freedom as murder appeal ends

"People always ask 'who is Amanda Knox?' I am the same person I was four years ago. But I have lost a friend. I have lost my faith in Italian police. I am paying with my life for something I have not done. Four years ago I didn't know what suffering was," she said, speaking fluent, flawless Italian.

Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito are fighting to be acquitted of the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors have called for the pair's sentences -- of 26 and 25 years, respectively -- to be increased to life.

Before Knox spoke, Sollecito made a dramatic appeal to the court to free them, removing a white plastic bracelet from his wrist and fingering it nervously as his closing statement came to an end.

"It says 'Free Amanda and Raffaele,'" he told the court. "I have never taken it off. I think the time has come to take it off."

His voice fading almost to inaudibility, he concluded, "I hope this is part of history and that Amanda and I have a future." Read More