reactions. Second was because Michael Swango had mental and emotional traumas with past experience or his childhood experience in obsessive-
compulsive neurotic. Third was because Micahel Swango failed in the face of the competition in Neurasthenia.
1. Hysteria major or dissociation reactions
The factor of hysteria major or dissociation reactions is because traumatic experience cannot be elimited. Michael Swango had traumatic experience about
the critic for other people. Michael Swango had a big attention to his body. He was fanatical devotion
to fitness. He always did sport in the morning. “When Rosenthal and other classmate struggled out of bed in the morning after a late night of studying, they
would often see Swango outdoors doing early- morning calisthenics, chanting Marine cadences” Stewart, 1986:22. Some people praise him that he had slim,
tall body and he was also handsome boy. Michael Swango and his girlfriend named Kristine wen
t to the Kristin‟s parents. Michael Swango nearly went berserk, ranting and pacing rapidly back
and forth in the living room when Sharon Cooper who was Kristin‟s mother said
to him that he put on a few pounds. He shouted, proceeding to denounce her treatment of him.
They came over to see the Coopers the next day. Al was out, and Sharon greeted him at the front door. Swango looked as if he‟d gained some
weight, which surprised Sharon, since he‟d always been so determinedly trim and fit. “You look like you‟ve put on a few pounds,” she said
Stewart, 1986:203-204.
Michael Swango have a big attention to his body, he erupted in rage when Sharon Cooper commented that he had put on a few pounds. The criticism he
encountered may seem trivial, but he could not brook criticism or challenge of any kind because he always got praises from other people. He almost invariably
attributes criticism or a challenge to persecution.
2. Obsessive- compulsive neurotic.
The factor of obsessive- compulsive neurotic is because traumatic with childhood experience. Michael Swango had traumatic with his past experience on
his family when he was a childhood. Michael Swango had not harmonic family. Michael Swango‟s father named Virgil; he almost had not contact with his
three sons Bob, Michael, and John although he met them in the house every day. “For he had almost no contact with him or his other sons, and had only sporadic
involvement with them a children” Stewart, 1986:36-37. This condition made Swango lost the figure of his father.
His father applied the military rule in Swango‟s family. He taught his
children about military lesson. Michael Swango was really afraid when his father was at home. He gave the physical punishment to Bob although the small mistake.
Everything what his father said or command they had to do it. Bob was the first child so he was responsible for his younger brother Michael and John mistake
liked officer was responsible for the conduct of their mistake in the military. When the boys were young and the family was living at Fort Benning, he
trained them to march in formation, salute, and execute military commands. He also enforced a disciplinary code derived from the military
principle that an officer is responsible for the conduct of those he commands. In the Swango household, this meant that the oldest child was
responsible for his younger brother, so Bob was punished whenever
Michael or John misbehaved. Such as the time Bob stole 10 from his father, or when he referred to an officer named Maloney as Baloney- when
Virgil whipped Bob with a belt. Michael, on the other side, was never subject to corporal punishment, nor was John, but they saw it Stewart,
1986: 36:37.
The love of his mother was just given more to Swango than the other sons but the expression was not in physical expression like kiss or hug. She only gave
something special to Michael Swango such as gave him the music lesson, the expensive clarinet, and the private school education. It showed that there was not
love of his parents. There was just only physical hardness that showed by his parents.
Bob and John began to feel left out. Whatever love their mother could muster for her children seemed to be allocated disproportionately to
Michael. Only he received the music lessons, the expensive clarinet, and the private school education. But not even Michael received motherly hugs
or kisses. Muriel seemed incapable of expressing any physical affection Stewart, 1986:43.
His father always rejected the children‟s request to go picnic. Swango‟s family just went to their grandfather and grandmother house every summer. He
was barking orders at his children and rejected with his children‟s request to visit someplace where they passed at their trip. They used unconditioned car, and their
parents were smoking without thought about the children‟s comfort. Until Virgil left for Vietnam, every summer he loaded the family and their
luggage into a station wagon and they set out for visit to the grandparents. They boys were lodged in the rear of tear unairconditioned car for what
seemed like unending treks across the sweltering Southern or Plains states. Their parents sat in the front seat, chain smoking. Virgil ran the
expeditions like military maneuvers, barking orders at the boys, rejecting pleas to visit tourist attractions along the route or to make brief stops, even
to use a rest room Stewart, 1986:39:40.
Michael Swango who was rejected or ignored by their parents was not to develop a warm feeling with others. He became less able to having empathy
feelings or needs of others. His attitude did not care about the other people. His parents were always quarrel, they always quarrel in front of Swango
and his brother. His father was out late almost every day after his career was winding down, so Muriel and her sons rarely saw Virgil.
One evening Bob, Michael, and John were watching TV and doing their homework when their father returned. They heard their mother conform
him. “Why are you never home?” she angrily demanded. Some kind of argument ensued, with shouting that left Muriel in tears. Virgil stormed
out the house. The boys were shocked Stewart, 1986: 40.
Virgil and Muriel never told to their children about their romance and courtship when they were young. Bob, Michael, and John almost never saw the
psychical contact between her mother and her father like kiss or hug. They usually compared their parents with the parents of their friends. “Muriel and Virgil slept
in twin beds and there were no sign of physical affection between them. Not even the boys ever saw them kiss or trade affectionate hugs” Stewart, 1986:39.
Michael Swango interested with articles about violent death since he was childhood.
“Michael had a fascination for articles about violent death since childhood, when he began clipping National Enquirer
articles” Stewart, 1986: 46. Sometimes, his mother helped him to clip articles into the book for him. His
father always did angry and punish his children when they did mistake although the small mistake. His parents always quarrel in front of their children. Those
conditions shows that Michael Swango grown up where the environment of crime culture was appreciated. His father also like with disaster, killing, and weapons.
He also had scrapbooks of disaster. “Yet his fascination with disasters, with killing, and with weapons echoed similar interests he perceived in his father, as
when he learned that Virgil also kept scrapbooks of disasters” Stewart, 1986:291. It made him very interested in crime cases, murder, and everything
about accident. His interest made he had good reasons to do crime. The residents complained to others doctor that Michael Swango was
“weird”. He did push up to punish himself when he got some critiques to his performance in the hospital.
“Whenever they criticized Swango – as they often did, because of his incompetence
– Swango would immediately drop to the floor and begin a strenuous set of push-ups. He could do hundred
s of them” Stewart, 1986:59. The residents though his action was not only peculiar but highly
inappropriate for a doctor. Michael Swango persisted although they reprimanded him. Michael Swango developed a sense that a certain thing must be done without
mistake because the traumatic experience about everything what his father did about military rule when he was childhood.
3. Neurasthenia
