Good points on what the Dr. Phil guests said. I remember reading something during this case that a psychopath doesn't need to self-soothe because they really aren't worried, concerned, or feeling any remorse. They don't have a conscience and they don't feel guilt or care. But that a narcissist does react and get rattled, because they care deeply about protecting their image. Being exposed as a fraud really gets to them. Their ego can't handle being cornered or what others will think.I was a bit surprised by the former FBI profiler who contradicted herself a few times. She called CW a family annihilator (yep, correct) and narcissistic psychopath (Dr. Phil added “malignant“ on top of that). She also said psychopaths don‘t flinch when they take polygraphs (which is very true, they often pass them). Now, CW failed the polygraph big time to a point you didn‘t even need one because it was so very obvious he was lying.
She also said CW was soothing himself by rocking back and forth and crossing his arms. I can tell you first hand that a true psychopath does NOT need to sooth himself. LOL. There is nothing there to be soothed. They do not feel guilt, remorse, or shame, neither would they nervously lift their arms above their heads, or justify themselves when they feel cornered. True psychopaths are at their best when anyone else‘s world would crumble. They remain cool, calm, collected, charming. They certainly do not act like CW did, they‘d actually make fun of him. I can’t believe she put that bag of nerves CW on that spectrum.
IMO, MOO, JMO, and all that jazz.
CW was rattled, even when he was trying to act calm. The idiot also forget he was supposed to act worried about his family. He didn't show any remorse or sadness about that. But he was definitely showing nerves with dogs and drones, and all of SW's friends, family, the neighbors, and particularly NUA blew his flimsy cover story apart.