I don't think George molested or sexually abused ICA but I do think that ICA has suffered some sexual abuse in the past by someone else. Experts have said sociopaths are usually developed after a traumatic event. I wonder if ICA was raped in the past. That's been my thought lately thus why she has all these 'stories' and fake friends in her mind.
According to my studies, admittedly about 10 years ago (was pursuing graduate studies in Forensic Psychology -- until the abyss looked back.
Deeply. And still.
-- I've got to write my history up in my profile, I'll try to do it soon)
Vis-a-vis a very many Anti-Social Personalities (Psychopaths/Sociopaths) it didn't statistically matter if they had a/one/just a few incidents of trauma or years of it. The belief of how they 'developed' into such a person is either they were 1) raised with a cold, abusive in some way (Emotionally, Mentally, Physically, Sadistically, etc.) direct caretaker
--such as mother, father, grandparents, other immediate family, trusted caretakers, highly influential "friends" --
who was ableto 'teach' them, as it were. The abuse from their hands is/was considered secondary to the child just being exposed to them
and/or
2) Neonates were unable to bond immediately, hence not at all, with their mothers. This was not solely the mothers fault. Some children simply didn't respond -- one could say, and truly not be too far off, that the children were 'born bad':
i.e. Born without the capability for a conscience
but of course Psychiatrists don't like to ever admit that
-- it's not good for business.
One, two a few (even chronic) incidents of trauma usually weren't thought of as life-changing enough to turn these kids 'to the dark side' (it caused many psychological problems, sure; but Antii-Social Personality Disorder was not considered among them);
although the cold caretakers may have caused many cumulative (but not effective enough to create a sociopath) incidents of trauma: it was felt
that it was the actual caretaker more than the incidents;
but then, that could be akin to the debate "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?"
Take, for instance, Ted Bundy.
At age 3, way prior to his confusion regarding if his birth mother was his Sister or truly his Mother; and long prior to the mental/emotional abuse dealt out to him by his grandfather;
he took a great many sharp knives from the family kitchen and arranged them, point inwards, all around his Aunt as she slept.
Was he 'born bad'? Or was he unable to bond, immediately after his birth, to his mother -- and who's, or what's fault was it?
This is something I don't think we'll never know the answer to.
Regarding Nature vs. Nurture:
Personally, I do believe if one took a 'normal' baby, one who had bonded to his/her mother, one that had a conscience
and abused that child in hopes of creating a Sociopath
--and of course if such experiments were legally, never mind morally, possible--
(you wouldn't
believe, though, what Psychologists were able to get away with, even up until the 70's!)
one were to cause Psychoses, such things then known as Neuroses, and other manifestations of mental illness/Personality problems,
one would have no idea, prediction, recipe --even hope-- of creating such a creature as an Anti-Social Personality.
In short, it's possible, IMO of course, that one is either born with a conscience or they aren't. But as I said, it's been 10 long years since I studied any texts, so what I then learned as complete truth may be partly or thoroughly disproved by now.
Thanks for listening,
