3. Irritable
The third characteristic of the psychopaths are irritable. Irritable is the personality of psychopath when psychopaths look frigid because they cannot
control their emotion. Michael Swango could not control his emotion; he was very angry and
said to cleaning woman that he would to blow up at her if she touched his clippings again. He looked frigid to other people who made him angry and had not
a conscience. Michael Swango liked to collect many clippings about articles of violent
death. He liked to make articles about violent death when he was a child and now became an obsession. They did not like when someone saw him when he made the
clipping. He was very angry with a cleaning woman who touched his clippings. Krzystofczyk and the other paramedics noticed that when Swanggo was on
duty and waiting for an ambulance call, he spent much of his time working on four or five large scrapbooks. He‟d spread out articles on the table and
carefully paste them into one of the books. One day Krzystofczyk went over to the table and looked at some of the articles. Many were about fatal
car crashes, and quit
a few about poison. He could tell Swango didn‟t like him sifting through the clipping. Swango told him that while he was living
in Colombus, a cleaning woman had “messed up” the order of the clippings, and he said he‟d “blown up” at her. Krzyztofczyk took that as a
warning Stewart 1986: 93.
There were a few complain from the nurse staffs to Michael Swango when he worked in Africa. They said that Michael Swango was irritable and rude to
them. He was refusing to allow them to accompany him on his roads. “Swango seemed unduly sensitive about his lab coat; he once flew into a rage after accusing
a nurse of tou ching it” Stewart, 1986:230.
4. Dominant
The fourth characteristic of the psychopaths are dominant. Dominant is the personality of the psychopath when they have purpose to exploiting other people.
They are treating others without feeling and also cruel. Psychopaths‟ acts are
generally involving of violence act. Michael Swango was dominant because he wanted to control the death and
life of the patients. He looked terrible with his action to monopolize the other people around him. He was treating his patients without feeling and also cruel.
Michael Swango looked terrible and astonish because he felt satisfied when he killed the patients. He was treating his patients and people around him
without feeling and also cruel. “Why did you kill?” “Well, people controlled me
for 18 years, and then I controlled my own destiny. I controlled other people‟s lives, whether they lived or die. I had that power to control” Stewart, 1986:296.
He had the control of the victim ‟s life when he works as paramedic and
came to the scene of the accident. “In his work as paramedics, when he came to the scene of accidents, and fantasies I which he would arrive on the scene of
disasters and have control over the fate of the victims” Stewart, 1986: 291.
5. Hypocritical
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