Lars Linddstrom Case

Lars Lindstrom Lars Lindtstrom is a 27-year-old white, well-educated male. He lives in a small town in Minnesota, where the community is very tight knit, and has been living there his entire life. He is currently living in the garage of his deceased fathers home, which he shares with is brother Gus, and pregnant sister in law Karin. The home is isolated, and located by a lake where he spent most of his time as a child. Lars was single until he purchased a “love doll” online, whom he calls Bianca. Lars’s brother Gus, and his sister in law Karin are the ones who decided that Lars needed to seek help. They called into the office December 14th 2007 to inform me of the situation, and then decided that Lars would come in under the ruse that Bianca was sick—so currently Lars has no knowledge that he is a client.
Overall the whole town and Lars’s family is supportive. When interviewing Gus, Lars’s brother he was resistant at first saying that they should put Lars in a hospital, and he is “totally insane”. However, thanks to Karin, the whole town gets behind Lars and supports him, so he is in a very good environment with people who care about him and care about his
Like a burn, like when you go outside and your feet freeze and then you come back in and they thaw out.” He also wears lots of extra layers of clothing just to avoid direct human contact. Lars is still somewhat childlike in domineer, he laughs at the wrong times and has trouble maintaining eye contact. He brings a blanket that is mother knit him while she was pregnant to every meeting we have, he smells it for comfort and is only willing to let people he is extremely close to touch it. A lot of these behaviors may have to do with the fact that he wasn’t raised in the best environment. His mother passed away while giving birth to him, and his father was absent, and sad and according to Lars “didn’t really want anyone