When one sees the same patterns, the same preconditions with the same results, one can often look at the results and work backward.

Trust me on this one. It's absolutely right on. My experience as a clinician working with other clinicians, participating in 1000s of "staffings" and treatment plannings, and needing to use that information has been extensive. It is predictive, it decyphers the dynamics of the past, and helps to understand present motivation. And this is one of the very, very classical personalities.

One doesn't have to have a complete understanding of metalurgy, physics, any of the laws of motion or thermodynamics, gravity, or chemistry to look at a wrecked car and figure out what must have happened. And what it will take to put it all back together.

Through observation and intuition you described GW perfectly. And, like a car wreck, Carruth just says what had to happen to get him that way.

A very controlling Mother, and an atmosphere where within the family he was given hell but always protected from outside consequences ("This is the last time I'm going to bail you out!"). After all, you wouldn't want the public to know.

Arf