Severin and sociopathy

[Natalie Severn]

Yes,I think I can go with that.
It is interesting too to read through his conversations with his landlady while he was getting together with Mary Spink ----see his" pre marital arrangements "--- you will hear Severin articulating a very duplicitous world view or "value system" to his shocked landlady.It makes little sense except as an example of how he obeyed nobody"s laws but his own while at the same time finding ways to duck out of real commitment in a conventional "marriage" to Mrs Spink, instead partaking of a bogus marriage to Mrs Spink, thereby placating both his Victorian landlady and Mrs Spink. Hear him say for example to his landlady --- " our ways are different from your ways" while at the same time he manages,on the quiet, to find a non legal solution that somehow satisfies all three of them for a time.
In another such "marriage" before that,this time to Annie Chapman,he proposed after only a few months of their "married life" that she and he should live with another woman in a threesome , all sharing a bed together.This time though Annie told him to get lost and dumped him .

[protohistorian]

He is a very conflicted fellow. Erratic changes in behavior, iirationalities, and duplicity are his coping mechanisism for the stress of living in a reality in which he feels foriegn. These machanisms, each used to fit a specific need of Severin to fit in, constitute the bulk of what we know about him. The are signatures in so far as they are the traceable features of his existence. One can only imagine what other behaviors he exercised, and by such measures concealed.

[Natalie Severn]

What do you make of the swanky clothes and sporting a green carnation?

[protohistorian]

manifestations of the reality he would rather be in! His way of holding on to his version of reality. Same impetus as the false bravado, in his world he is the king.

[protohistorian]

sorry for the delay, examples from Adam

[QUOTE=protohistorian;71496]20 modern criteria for sociopathy first proposed by Clackley in 1964 and revised by Hare in 1986

1.glib/superficial charm numerous fake marriages, chemist describes as intellectual, families describe him positively
2. grandiose self worth, calls dr.'s idiots, claimed to have 1000 pounds,
3. need for stimulation, constant movement, change in lovers
4. pathological lying, throghout, refered to as disembler
5. conning, numerous fake marriages that were consentual
6. lack of guilt/remorse never even admitted being Severin
7. shallow affect was different things to each person according to stuation
8. callous, jokes about premature deaths,noted by court as callous
9. parasitic life style, large advance from Mrs.Spink and subsequent unemployment
10. poor behavioral control, siezed a waitress by throat for wanting reference
11. sexual promiscuity, from menage a tois to frequent infidelities
12. early behavioral problems unknown even in 1903
13. lack of realistic long term plans, leaving Praga to enlist, numerous commercial ventures, no stable trajectory post apprentice
14. Impulsivity, leaving Praga and fleeing monenies
15. Irresponsibillity never cared for his own children
16. failure to accept responsibility for actions, never admitted guilt
17.many short term marital relationships, sham marriages, infidelities
18. juvenile delinquincy, unknown even in 1903
19. revocation of conditional release, not an option
20. crimin versatility, arson,murder,fraud,alias use, lying under oath
Respectfully Dave