After completing her studies in psychology, she co-authored several of Mark Benecke's books between 2009 and 2011, of which she also edited The Benecke Universe.[10]
Mark Benecke commissioned her to write Aus der Dunkelkammer des Bösen to create a comprehensive psychological profile for the Colombian serial killer Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos. The book was published 2011, and achieved high rankings on the Spiegel bestseller list. She has been a regular columnist for the German-language BDSM magazine Schlagzeilen since 2010.[11]
In her column "Psychokiste", she deals with various questions on the subject of BDSM from a psychological point of view.[12]
In 2013, she published a psychological profile of the historical serial killer and cannibal Karl Denke.[13]
Published in October 2013, her book Auf dünnem Eis. Die Psychologie des Bösen analyzed the crimes of Rodney Alcala, Richard Kuklinski, Leopold and Loeb, and the murder of Marta Russo. Using the test methods developed by Robert D. Hare, the book also discussed what created psychopaths. It entered the Spiegel bestseller list at number 13 in November 2013.
Lydia Benecke has been a member of the GWUP since her time as a student.[14] In this context, she deals with the psychological examination of the vampire motif, the vampire subculture, superstition and homeopathy.[15][16][17][18] In 2012, after writing a psychological statement on the indexing of a BDSM forum by the youth protection, she became the youth protection commissioner of the German BDSM youth organisation SMJG.[19] She is part of an international Working Group on Human Asphyxia set up by the Canadian forensic scientist Anny Sauvageau.[20] She participated in the evaluation of a series of video recordings recording fatal autoerotic accidents and suicides[21][22]
She was involved in suicide and depression prevention, working for the non-profit association Freunde fürs Leben e. V.[23][24]
In 2013 she was in Sat.1-Production "Stalker – Caught in the act" as psychologist responsible for the assessment of the perpetrators.[3][40]
She also explains criminal cases in German TV show Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst.[41] She also works with Anwälte der Toten and Erbarmungslos", two other TV shows.[42] She also appears in German shows Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst and Anwälte der Toten as well as Erbarmungslos.[43][44][45]
Publications
Vampire unter uns! Teil 1: Rh. pos. (with Mark Benecke, Kathrin Sonntag, Nastassia Palanetskaya), Edition Roter Drache, Rudolstadt 2009, ISBN978-3939459248.
Vampire unter uns! Teil 2: Rh. neg. (with Mark Benecke), Edition Roter Drache, Rudolstadt 2010, ISBN978-3939459422
Das Benecke-Universum (with Mark Benecke), Militzke, Leipzig 2011, ISBN978-3861898450.
Aus der Dunkelkammer des Bösen. Neue Berichte vom bekanntesten Kriminalbiologen der Welt (with Mark Benecke), Lübbe, Köln 2011, ISBN978-3785760468, L. Benecke: pp. 60–68/ 71–259 / 292–297 / 327–330 / 357–364 / 388–390.
Historische Serienmörder III: Karl Denke – Der Kannibale von Münsterberg: Ein deutscher Serienmörder by Armin Rütters, Kirchschlager 2013, L. Benecke: pp. 73–86, ISBN978-3934277427.
Sadisten. Tödliche Liebe – Geschichten aus dem wahren Leben. Lübbe, Köln 2015, ISBN978-3431038996.
Wie meine Internet-Liebe zum Albtraum wurde: Das Phänomen Realfakes by Victoria Schwartz, Blanvalet 2015, L. Benecke: pp. 256–266, ISBN978-3764505363.
Ein multidimensionales psychologisches Modell zur Unterscheidung zwischen inklinierendem und periculärem sexuellen Sadismus, in: Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Kriminologie, Polizei und Recht e.V. : Band 3 / II. Sammelband, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2015. L. Benecke: pp. 32–65. ISBN978-3866764408.
Die 120 Tage von Sodom 2.0: Neu übersetzt von Curt Moreck, by Marquis de Sade with Frank Schulten, L. Benecke: pp. 6–24), 2016, ISBN978-3932961724.
Psychopathinnen. Die Psychologie des weiblichen Bösen. Lübbe, Köln 2018, ISBN978-3431039962.
Ein multidimensionales psychologisches Modell zur Unterscheidung zwischen inklinierendem und periculärem sexuellen Sadismus, In: Destruktive Sexualität. Therapie und Risk-Assessment in der Forensischen Psychiatrie. Berlin 2018, L. Benecke: pp. 11– I26, ISBN978-3954664306.
^Armin Rütters: Historische Serienmörder III: Karl Denke – Der Kannibale von Münsterberg: Ein deutscher Serienmörder, Kirchschlager, Arnstadt 2013, ISBN978-3934277427.
^A. Sauvageau, R. LaHarpe, V. J. Geberth: Agonal sequences in eight filmed hangings: analysis of respiratory and movement responses to asphyxia by hanging. In: Journal of forensic sciences. Band 55, Nummer 5, September 2010, S. 1278–1281, doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01434.x, PMID20487156.
^A. Sauvageau, R. Laharpe, D. King, G. Dowling, S. Andrews, S. Kelly, C. Ambrosi, J. P. Guay, V. J. Geberth: Agonal sequences in 14 filmed hangings with comments on the role of the type of suspension, ischemic habituation, and ethanol intoxication on the timing of agonal responses. In: The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology. Band 32, Nummer 2, Juni 2011, S. 104–107, doi:10.1097/PAF.0b013e3181efba3a, PMID20683242.